Sentence examples for indigenous legislation from inspiring English sources

Federal government cuts to Aboriginal legal services and frontline organisations and attempts by state and territory governments to water down land rights and other Indigenous legislation are also on the agenda.

Celebrated in the media as a coup for indigenous rights, the legislation, we are told, places landowners in the box seat when it comes to mining.

He has previously suggested to Abbott that the constitution establishes an Indigenous body to oversee legislation, but which would not have veto power.

The effects of this legislation on Indigenous communities is beyond the scope of this report, however at a minimum it is obvious that this legislation would affect the social landscape of remote communities (Australian Human Rights Commission) for example internal migration.

Recognition of the multiethnic and multicultural nature of the nation in the Colombian Constitution of 1991 created opportunities for re-valorization of cultural identity which, together with the existence of a significant body of legislation, enabled indigenous communities to demand individual and collective rights.

Mr. Bainimarama said he had acted to prevent legislation that favored indigenous Fijians and would "deny many citizens their rights".

The commission called for changes to legislation on education, Indigenous language, and child welfare.

Talk turned to the 1763 Royal Proclamation, a piece of pre-Confederation legislation, which declares Indigenous land title has always and will continue to exist; that all land must be ceded by treaty or will continue to be considered indigenous.

However just last month Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari conceded that violence, rights abuses, and misuse of existing legislation against minorities (indigenous peoples included) is a serious problem in the nation.

These reserved powers were intended to protect the indigenous black people from discriminatory legislation and to safeguard British commercial interests in the colony, but as Claire Palley comments in her constitutional history of the country, it would have been extremely difficult for Whitehall to enforce such actions, and attempting to do so would have probably caused a crisis.

The situation is equally concerning for indigenous communities in Canada, where legislation that deals directly with the inequalities created by environmental injustice is for the most part nonexistent (Dhillon and Young 2010).