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Indigenous Peoples

Synonyms: 
indigenous communities
indigenous community
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People whose ancestors inhabited a place or a country when persons from another culture or ethnic background arrived on the scene and dominated them through conquest, settlement, or other means and who today live more in conformity with their own social, economic, and cultural customs and traditions than those of the country of which they now form a part.

 

Source: Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, UNHCHR, 1991.

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Reports & Research
Myanmar
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
local communities
displacement
Indigenous Peoples

4 issues a year on landmines, forced relocation, Burma army attacks, IDP health, education and many other issues affecting Internally Displaced Karen People.

IMPACTO DE LAS POLITICAS ESTATALES EN LA AUTONOMÍA DE LOS TERRITORIOS INDÍGENAS EN LA ZONA SUR DE COSTA RICA EL CASO DEL TERRITORIO DE SALITRE / IMPACT OF THE STATAL POLITICS OVER THE AUTONOMY OF INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES IN COSTA RICA'S SOUTH REGION

Journal Articles & Books
Costa Rica
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
land rights
land administration
land dispute

doi: 10.12957/geouerj.2017.24786Este artículo tiene como objetivo realizar un análisis, mediante revisión bibliográfica, de los conflictos que se han dado entre los indígenas y la población no indígena en la comunidad Bribri de Salitre.

El desplazamiento indígena en Colombia. Caracterización general

Journal Articles & Books
Colombia
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
displacement
land dispute
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous peoples' land rights

En 1991, cerca de 200 indígenas Wounáan de la comunidad de Curiche en la Costa Pacífica norte se desplazan hacia Juradó, presos del terror por las agresiones propinadas y las amenazas de los narcotraficantes. Estas mismas comunidades en diciembre de 2000 (frente a un ataque de las FARC a Juradó), salen hacia Panamá; cuatro meses más tarde retornan a Colombia.

Legal Pluralism as a Method of Interpretation: A Methodological Approach to Decolonising Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights under International Law

Journal Articles & Books
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous peoples' lands
land tenure
land policies
land law

Ever since the arrival of the European colonisers, theories of international law have been used to justify the process of dispossession of indigenous lands.

My children and I have nowhere to go: Kachin IDP

Reports & Research
Myanmar
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land conflicts
local communities
displacement
Indigenous Peoples

Despite a number of peace talks having been conducted between the central government and Kachin Independence Army (KIA), there is no sign of the war ceasing in Kachin state. The ongoing armed conflict has been driving thousands of civilians out of their villages. Many IDPs are now living in church supported camps along with relief from international humanitarian agencies.