We report on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs), especially those who govern, manage conserve their lands waters. explore themes of access use natural resources, solidarity, decision-making, role governments IPLCs in managing COVID-19, uptake traditional medicine. These are explored through a global online survey English, Spanish French. coll...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) serves as the only international agency that has adopted specific standards covering indigenous peoples. To address the issue, ILO has taken a twofold approach of promoting its Convention 169 at the government level and providing technical assistance on indigenous peoples issues. ILO’s current development program for indigenous peoples is INDISCO, whi...

BACKGROUND: Genetic research has potential benefits for improving health, such as identifying molecular characteristics of a disease, understanding disease prevalence and treatment, and developing treatments tailored to patients based on individual genetic characteristics of their disease. Indigenous people are often targeted for genetic research because genes are easier to study in communities...

1 Nicholas Street, Suite 726, Ottawa ON K1N 7B7 Telephone: 613-233 7440 ● Fax: 613-233 8361 E-mail: [email protected] ● www.icad-cisd.com July 2011 In both high‐income and low‐ or middle‐income countries, indigenous peoples face some of the heaviest burdens of ill health. In particular, indigenous populations face a higher vulnerability to HIV due to a range of factors including stigmatizati...

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Inter-American Development Bank. FOREWORD Throughout Latin America, the past decade has brought a growing national and international concern for the identity and rights of indigenous peoples. Moreover, in the context of structural adjustment programs in particular, the internation...

BACKGROUND Indigenous peoples experience worse health and die at younger ages than their non-indigenous counterparts. Ethnicity data enables health services to identify inequalities experienced by minority populations and to implement and monitor services specifically targeting them. Despite significant Government intervention, Australia's Indigenous peoples, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is...

Storytelling, in its various forms, has often been described as a practice with great emancipatory potential. In turn, Indigenous knowledge shows great promise in guiding a participatory action research (PAR) methodology. Yet these two approaches are rarely discussed in relation to one another, nor, has much been written in terms of how these two approaches may work synergistically toward a dec...

Australia has two distinct Indigenous peoples: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples belong to diverse, contemporary communities, each containing individuals with different perspectives, life experiences and aspirations. While there are many shared interests based on their status as Indigenous Australians, it should be expected that there is a div...

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