Sentence examples for indigenous disaster from inspiring English sources

Indeed, many fear Recognise is merely part of a bipartisan process that assuages non-Indigenous guilt and reassures a horrified global community that Australia is at least cognisant of its Indigenous disaster space.

Given most of the gaps are widening, Closing the Gap seems to have more to do with reassuring the world that Australia is still watching the Indigenous disaster space while failing to actually respond to it urgently, meaningfully, with – for example – debate about the need for an international aid-delivery-style response.

Areas for collaboration include social inclusion and advocacy, child protection and development, including children of indigenous peoples, disaster risk reduction and management, and climate change and environment.

"Closing the Gap" has, in my view, become something of a bipartisan charade aimed at appeasing the international community that Australian legislators are still watching what anthropologist Jon Altman calls the "Indigenous socio-economic disaster space".

Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practices and lessons Learned from Experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region 2008, UN ISDR Asia and Pacific, 2008 This publication aims to build awareness for indigenous knowledge as an effective tool for reducing risk from natural disasters.

These movements' growing power at home forced a tremendous promise abroad: an aspiration to keep the world to 1.5 degrees of warming, above which spells disaster for Indigenous peoples, low-lying island nations, and the African continent.

Thus, Hoover's paper highlights the environmental justice dimensions of environmental disasters when indigenous populations experience disproportionately severe impacts generated by national societies.

Overall, the Spanish conquest was a disaster for the indigenous population of Nicaragua's Pacific region.

Malezer labelled the decision to centralise Indigenous affairs in Canberra "a disaster".

This provided my first real understanding of a fundamental difference between how the indigenous people of Guatemala view disaster and how a North American does.

This chapter reveals the working principle of an indigenous technical knowledge, Bandalling, for disaster resilience against river flooding and bank erosion with scientific evidences.