While the allegations of child labor have been refuted by the company, the indigenous demands to have their rights acknowledged continues to be ignored.
And if the recent LNG port approval in British Columbia is any indication, they're about as keen on supporting industry (and ignoring Indigenous demands) as Harper ever was.
And while I urge everyone to take concrete steps to support indigenous demands for restoration of treaty rights, the return of stolen lands, and an end to systematic violence disproportionately targeting native communities—I also hope we can couple those real-life demands with an end to the violence these statues and celebrations represent.
Freighted in legality, it stopped well short of the far wider, general, national apology that the colonial violence against this continent's Indigenous people demands from both contemporary British and Australian governments.
His concerns over indigenous agrarian demands, health and education echo not only the current politics of Chile's youth and Bolivia or Ecuador – consider also the peasant protests that recently rocked Colombian conservative politics to the core.
The reasons for this are complex and, as yet, not well understood or described; however, it is clear that the well-documented execrable health status of Indigenous Australians demands a response from universities, which are largely responsible for the education of health professionals.
The movement in Canada has gone through a seismic shift with a generation of indigenous activists demanding a seat at the table.
The indigenous groups demanded the presence of a senior Brazilian official, saying that they wanted to start a new round of negotiations over the dam, Amazon Watch, an organization that works to protect the Amazon region and indigenous people, reported.
Prior to the elections of left-leaning governments, Latin American states witnessed the organization, mobilization, and political participation of indigenous peoples demanding the recognition of new cultural and political rights.
"[A]fter years of wrangling over how to fix the statute, in which officials sought to balance the interests of scientists, the agricultural industry, and biotech firms with those of indigenous populations demanding compensation for traditional knowledge, Brazil President Dilma Rousseff last week signed a law that is raising hopes among scientists.
After wrangling over how to fix the statute, in which officials sought to balance the interests of scientists, the agricultural industry, and biotech firms with those of indigenous populations demanding compensation for traditional knowledge, Brazil President Dilma Rousseff last week signed a law that is raising hopes among scientists.
