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UTIMUT - Past heritage - future partnerships

Edited by Mille Gabriel and Jens Dahl. This book identifies a need to move beyond discussions of ownership, power and control in favour of exploring new kinds of partnerships between museums anf the peoples or countries of origin, partnerships based on equitability and reconciliation. The authors explore a wide variety of different cooperative approaches such as knowledge sharing, capacity building, and physical as well as virtual repatriation.

   
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Indigenous Affairs 1-2/08 - Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

This issue is a double issue focusing on climate change and indigenous peoples. Its content is based on the input and papers from the IWGIA held conference in February 2008. It contains tree international articles and articles from Africa, Arctic, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific. This Indigenous Affairs is edited ny Christina Nilsson and Mark Nuttall and the editorial is written by Mark Nuttall.

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Annual Report and Accounts 2007

The Annual Report 2007 is a status report that describes the activities of IWGIA in 2007. You can order a copy through: iwgia@iwgia.org or download it below.

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Indigenous Peoples - Keepers of our past - Custodians of our future

By Erica-Irene A. Daes. This book is Erica Daes’ personal record on more than twenty years of efforts to promote the cause of indigenous peoples and the recognition of their fundamental rights by the UN system. Through this account of her own experince, the author commemorates the suffering, oppression and discrimination experienced by indigenous peoples, and outline their continuing struggle for freedom and for cultural, and physical survival.

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Frontier Encounters. Indigenous Communities and Settlers in Asia and Latin America

Edited by Danilo Geiger. Poverty and the maldistribution of land in core areas of developing countries, together with state schemes for the colonization of unruly frontiers, have forced indigenous peoples and settlers into uneasy co-existence. Presenting material from various Asian and Latin American countries, Frontier Encounters examines factors that make for conflict and accommodation, studies the role of policy frames, and looks at promising mitigation strategies.

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Gaz, Pétrole de l'Arctique et Peuples Autochtones

This is the French version of the English Indigenous Affairs 2-3/06 about Arctic Oil and Gas Development.

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Report from the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities
Mission to the Republic of Niger - February 2006


From 14 - 24 February 2006, Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities (WGIP) undertook a mission to the Republic of Niger. The delegation of the Working Group comprised:
Ambassador Kamel Rezag Bara - Member of the African Commission and Chairperson of the Working Group, and Mr. Mohammed Khattali - Member of the Working Group. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights adopted this report at its 40th Ordinary Session, 15 - 29 November 2006. This publication is both in French and English.


   
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Report from the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities
Mission to the Republic of Namibia - July - August 2005

The African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities undertook a mission to the Republic of Namibia from 26 July - 5 August 2005. The delegation of the Working Group comprised:
Commissioner Andrew Ranganayi Chigovera - member of the African Commission and chairperson of the Working Group, and Dr. Naomi Kipuri - member of the Working Group. The African Commission on Human and peoples' Rights adopted this report at its 38th Ordinary Session, 21 November - 5 December 2005. This publication is both in French and English.


   
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Report from the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities
Mission to the Republic of Botswana - June 2005

The African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities undertook a mission to the Republic of Botswana from 15 - 23 June 2005. The delegation of the Working Group comprised: Commissioner Andrew Ranganayi Chigovera - member of the African Commission and chairperson of the Working Group, and Dr. Naomi Kipuri - member of the Working Group. The African Commission on Human and peoples' Rights adopted this report at its 38th Ordinary Session, 21 November - 5 December 2005. This publication is both in French and English.

   
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El Derecho a la Salud de los Pueblos Indígenas en aislamiento y en contacto inicial

Ponencias presentadas en la reunion internacional en quito, Ecuador. 19-20 de octubre de 2007. IWGIA. IPES y Fundación Biodiversidad, 2008.
Beatriz Huertas Castillo (ed.)

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The Indigenous World 2008

The Indigenous World 2008 is out and was launched in New York Tuesday April 22 2008 at the 7th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). This volume includes 60 country profiles and 5 reports on international processes. The Indigenous World 2008 is edited by Kathrin Wessendorf. Order a CD-ROM or a printed version by mailing iwgia@iwgia.org or download it for free from our download section.

   
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Indígenas sin derechos - Situación de los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas

Este informe, Indígenas sin derechos, es una aproximación a la situación de los derechos humanos d elos pueblos indígenas de Colombia, especialmente los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales, del año 2007.

   
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Indigenious Affairs in Hindi 2008/4

New issue out on Migration! Order through B.I.R.S.A.: sanjaybm@dataone.in or sanjay_samar@hotmail.com


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Pueblos Indígenas - Derechos, etrategias económicas y desarrollo con identidad

By Rafael Sevilla and Juliana Ströbel-Gregor (eds). This book is from Foro de diálogo Europa - Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe. Buy it through: info@horlemann-verlag.de. The publication is supported by IWGIA, AECI Madrid, GTZ/BMZ Fráncfort, INWENT Berlin, JCCM Toledo, SEGIB Madrid.
ISBN 9783895022609, 302 pages

Asuntos Indígenas 4/07

This issue of Asuntos Indígenas focuses on social suffering. It brings articles about issues such as diabetes among indigenous peopels, the situation of the San people in Southern Africa, the situation in Lao PDR, suicide among the Inuit youth, and the aboriginal affairs in Australia. The editorial is written by Jack Hicks, and the editors are Jack Hicks and Sille Stidsen.

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Negotiating Autonomy - Case Studies on Philippine Peoples' Land Rights

Edited by Augusto B. Gatmaytan. This book is based on some of the presentations made at the 2005 National Conference on Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights held in Quezon City, the Philippines. It serves as a starting point for discussions on indigenous peoples' rights vis-á-vis the state in the Philippines, and in Southeast Asia.

   
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La otra palabra. Mujeres y violencia en Chiapas, antes y después de Acteal

By Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, coordinadora, CIESAS y IWGIA 2007. This is the second edition of the translation of the English IWGIA Document The other word
: Women and Violence in Chiapas Before and After Acteal which was published in 2001. The book is about the masacre in Chiapas, Mexico in 1997 where 32 women and 13 men were killed. Various human rights organisations wrote detailed reports of the massacre and different media organisations produced their analyses as well. The voices and feelings of women that were lost among the numbers, cronologies, and political analyses of this mass of information are rescued in this book.  

  
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Indigenous Affairs 4/07

This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on social suffering. It brings articles about issues such as diabetes among indigenous peopels, the situation of the San people in Southern Africa, the situation in Lao PDR, suicide among the Inuit youth, and the aboriginal affairs in Australia. The editorial is written by Jack Hicks, and the editors are Jack Hicks and Sille Stidsen.

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Povos Indígenas em África: Povos Esquecidos? Trabalho da Comissão Africana sobre os povos indígenas em África.

This is a summary report of the Report of the African Commission's Working Group of Experts on Indigenous Populations/ Communities in Portuguese. The Report also exists in English and French, and they can all be downloaded for free from this site.

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Other recent publications

  
Asuntos Indígenas 3/07 - Migracion
  
Exploitation Forestières et Peuples Autochtones
  
Marcando Territorio. Progresos y limitaciones de la titulación de territorios indígenas en la Amazonía
   Indigenous Affairs 3/07 - Migration
    Language of the Land - The Mapuche in Argentina and Chile
   Povos Indígenas em Isolamento Voluntário ou em Cantato Inicial na Amazônia e no Gran Chaco