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After several years of anthropological research backed by the UNFPA and an education campaign among midwives and other women, national indigenous authorities prohibited curación in 2012 and called for punishment in wooden stocks for anyone practising it.

Arriaga sits with the indigenous authorities at those festivities.

Diego Santiago Ceto, a leader of the Ixil indigenous authorities, told VICE News that he had no doubt about Morales' military ties.

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UNICEF is also initiating an education campaign, in collaboration with Colombian and indigenous authorities, about the dangers of mines.

In response to this situation UNICEF, in coordination with the Colombian Campaign Against Mines and indigenous authorities, will initiate an education campaign to explain the risks, train Indian guards, and design a plan for addressing emergencies caused by mines.

In mid-July, the new twenty-five-member Governing Council became the first indigenous authority in Iraq since the fall of Saddam.

Governor General Van Vollenhoven wrote in 1917 that, "the chiefs have no power of their own of any kind because there are not two authorities in the circle: French authority and indigenous authority; there is only one.

(3) TEK is perceived as being a competing authority with science, creating divisions between indigenous expert authorities and scientific expert authorities (Kofinas 2005; McGregor 2008).

An Aboriginal man who sits on the board of one of SA's Indigenous regional authorities spoke to Guardian Australia on condition of anonymity because he did want to jeopardise negotiations.

"That's something the [religious indigenous] authorities don't really know about," he said.