Under the slogan "All Boys and Girls to School, UNICEFF is vigorously working alongside government officials in three major indigenous districts to encourage children to attend school.
A matched pair cluster-randomized trial will be conducted in clinics in four rural indigenous districts with the highest maternal mortality ratios in Guatemala.
According to minutes of the meeting, the commission's chairwoman, Wendy Kuhne, "noted her own objections to the stone, which is not indigenous to the district, feels the clock tower is not appropriate, and the Star of David may not comply with the district".
The predominantly Muslim, rural and indigenous population of these districts do not differ from other districts in Kashmir except for the capital, Srinagar.
Closer to my home in Canberra the Indigenous people of the district – the Walgalu-speaking Ngambri and Ngurmal, the Wallabalooa and the Cookmai of the Ngunnawal language group – can still tell you all about the pioneering families whose properties are stained with Indigenous blood and stories of violent reprisal and murder.
The indigenous people of the district are Marwat tribes, but a small proportion of other tribes also settled here.
About 5 percent of the indigenous peoples in a given district might be subject to labour in mines and about 10 percent more for seasonal agricultural work.
Under the new arrangement, 25 percent of the indigenous peoples in a given district were required to work for the Spaniards, but they were free to choose their own employer and term of service.
The word "Canberra" is popularly thought to derive from the word Kambera or Canberry which is claimed to mean "meeting place" in the old Ngunnawal language, one of several Indigenous languages spoken in the district by Aboriginal people before European settlers arrived.
CHIRIQI, Panama, 17 February 2005 - For many indigenous children in the Mironó district in rural Panama, education is a challenge that goes far beyond the demands of the classroom.
