resuscitation and promotion of local and indigenous sports among different classes of the rural society, requires identification and introduction of local and indigenous games and sports and careful planning at the strategic and operational levels. but unfortunately so far in the kermanshah province and even at the national level applied research fits this goal have not been conducted. this stu...

Using the methods of philosophical analysis and concepts from moral and political philosophy Indigenous Peoples’ human right to control access to their cultural information is defended. The concept of a “right” is delineated and different types of rights are differentiated. The method of an “overlapping consensus” is used. In attempting to articulate the moral foundation for Indigenous Peoples’...

issues paper Acknowledgements Minority Rights Group International (MRG) gratefully acknowledges the support of all organizations and individuals who gave financial and other assistance for this paper, including the Department for International Development (UK) and CORDAID. She is an economist specializing in the analysis of poverty, inequality and redistribution in developing countries, the eco...

This is the first of two articles exploring international human rights framework as it relates to Indigenous peoples’ land and interests, with a focus on Australia. Over past 30 years, community has increasingly recognised that special attention needs be paid individual collective peoples, they are among world’s most marginalised peoples. For long time, peoples world have used system tackle dis...

• People who live in rural and remote communities in Australia are more likely to be • Indigenous, particularly in the more remote areas. • Rural populations tend to have more children but fewer young adults. • More remote communities, many with significant Indigenous populations and a focus on the mining industry, tend to have more children, more people of working age (especially males) and fe...

Introduction Recently a watershed moment occurred in the world of intellectual and cultural property rights in Aotearoa, New Zealand, when the "Toi Iho" trademark [1] was launched at the Auckland City Art Gallery. Elders and leaders of the art world and of the tangata whenua — the indigenous local tribe — gathered to celebrate the physical reality of an idea/passion/signifier that had been disc...

Part 1 of this article explored the relevance United Nations Declaration on Rights Indigenous Peoples to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Australia, particularly key principles self-determination free, prior informed consent; how international human rights framework applies in Australia; Australia’s lack compliance with it. One concluded by discussing Uluru Statement from Heart, pr...

The food systems and territories of Indigenous Peoples sustain much the world’s biodiversity, cultivated wild, through agroecological practices rooted in cosmovision cultural spiritual values. These have a critical role to play sustainability transformations but are widely threatened received limited research attention. This paper presents results four virtual workshops with Peoples: global wor...

AD 2002 represents an important milestone for indigenous peoples. First, after nearly 80 years of trying to gain access to the League of Nations and its successor the United Nations, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues commenced its inaugural session on May 13. Second, 2002 marks the 10th anniversary of the launch (December, 2002) of the Year of Indigenous Peoples at the Uni...

issues paper Acknowledgements Minority Rights Group International (MRG) gratefully acknowledges the support of all organizations and individuals who gave financial and other assistance for this paper, including the Department for International Development (UK) and CORDAID. She is an economist specializing in the analysis of poverty, inequality and redistribution in developing countries, the eco...