This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the issue of land rights Contents: Editorial - by Marianne Wiben Jensen Governance, the Territorial Approach and Indigenous Peoples - by Pedro García Hierro Securing Land Tenure Rights for Cambodia's Indigenous Communities - by Jeremy Ironside Titling Ancestral Domains: The Philippine Experience - by Lourdes Amos Strenghtening Indigenous Peoples' Influe...

The indigenous peoples of the Arctic have achieved some of the most comprehensive self-government arrangements in the world. These are reflected upon in this collection of articles, based on discussions between indigenous peoples in Russia and other parts of the Circumpolar North. Decision-making and political participation are of major concern for indigenous peoples in all parts of the Circumpola...

This issues of Indigenous Affairs assesses the impact of the UN Decade of Indigenous Peoples on Indigenous peoples around the world. Contents: Editorial - by Lola García-Alix The UN decade on Indigenous Peoples - by Jens Dahl The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Future Challenges, how do we meet them? by Victoria Tauli Corpuz The Indigenous Fellowship Programme at the Office of the ...

This issue looks at the issues affecting indigenous women highlighting the impact of external social pressures on traditional gender structures. Contents: Editorial by Kathrin Wessendorf Africa San women today: Inequality and dependency in a post-foraging world by Renee Sylvain Twa women in the great lakes region by Dorothy Jackson Female genital mutilation by Naomi Kipuri Tamachek women in the 21...

This book offers a historical and anthropological perspective from which to understand the fragility of isolated indigenous groups in the face of contact with outside society. It helps us appreciate the importance, in terms of cultural and biological diversity, of safeguarding their territories for both their future and that of the human race. Drawing on scientific and legal principles, internatio...

This book is concerned with the first peoples (those people who are considered indigenous by themselves and others) of Southern Africa such as the San, the Nama and the Khoi, and their rights. It analyses the civil and political rights situation, assessing the extent to which these people benefit from such rights as compared to the wider society. The rights to land and to natural resources - or th...

This Yearbook covers the period January-December 2003. As from this year, IWGIA's Yearbook will be issued every year in May. Its purpose is to provide an update on the state of affairs of Indigenous peoples around the world. Thanks to the contributions from indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists, The Indigenous World 2004 gives an overview of crucial developments in 2003 that have im...

This book is an ethnographic account of colonialism in the Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal, India. It examines the links between colonialism and development under British and Indian administrations, and analyses how the different indigenous groups (the Andamanese, the Onge, the Jarawa and the Sentinelese) have responded differently and been affected in different ways by colonization and the everyda...

This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on indigenous peoples in Africa. Contents: Editorial by Marianne Wiben Jensen Central AfricaIndigenous Advocacy in Central Africa by Dorothy Jackson After the World Parks Congress:Rights of indigenous communities still at stake in Central Africa by John Nelson BotswanaStruggling for the right to return:The residents of the central Kalahari Game Reserve...

This is an unusual book about an unusual project in the Peruvian Amazon. It focuses on the extraordinary achievements the indigenous movement in the Upper Amazon has accomplished in establishing its own alternative health service. The book exposes a kaleidoscopic view of this fascinating process. It presents the voices of the indigenous shamans, herbalists, midwives and healers. It gives an accoun...

This book tells another story. A story being written from within that landscape by the indigenous peoples of the Chaco themselves. It is one of happiness rather than poverty, as seen through their bodies, their looks, their smiles. Just to look at them is to participate in the mysteries of life itself. A life of contradictions and combinations, yes, but a life worth living. Let's take a look, then...

This issue of Indigenous Affairs is an open issue. Contents: Editorial by Sille Stidsen InternationalShort-Circuiting Justice in the Name of Terror by Suhas Chakma AsiaAsserting Indigenous Peoples' Rights is not an Act of Terrorism by Windel Bolinget AfricaThe Impact of the Congolese Conflict on the Indigenous Pygmy Population by Ilundu Bulambu Stephan South AmericaThe Camisea Project and Ind...

In 1998, IWGIA published the book The Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples - the struggle for a new partnership. Now, in 2003, with the Forum already established and its first session held last year, IWGIA wishes to continue to prioritise the dissemination of information and analysis on this issue. This Handbook on the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues provides basic information on the UN Per...

This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the use of information technology by indigenous peoples. Contents: Editorial by Marianne Wiben Jensen International Paths of Indigenous Cyber-Activism by Kyra Landzelius Americas Perspectives on the Indigenous Tradition / New Technology Interface by greg Young-Ing The Zapatista Rebellion and the Use of Technology: Indian Women Online? by Marisa Belausteg...

The volume contains the most significant articles and documents on the Jharkhand movement, the oldest of the autonomy movements in India, which as recently resulted in the formation of a separate state by the name Jharkhand. Leading social scientists and activists discuss from different angles the issues (dispossession from life supporting resources of land, forest, and water, and loss of cultural...

With contributions from indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists, The Indigenous World 2002-2003 gives an overview of crucial developments in 2002 and early 2003 that have impacted on the indigenous peoples of the world. This year's edition includes two new regions: the Circumcaribbean and the Middle East (the Bedouins of Israel). The book contains: Region and country reports that cove...

This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the issue of indigenous poverty. Contents: Editorial by Diana Vinding Download the editorial here Africa Sustainable Livelihoods for Pygmy Peoples by Dorothy Jackson Asia Poverty and Indigenous Peoples with Special Reference to India by Tiplut Nongbri 'Seven Fortunes vs. Seven Calamities' Cultural Poverty from an Indigenous Perspective by John Bamba Amer...

IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 2002 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.

(Participation of indigenous peoples in the political life of the circumpolar countries - The Russian reality and the international experience) The book is a compilation of articles looking at political participation of indigenous peoples around the Circumpolar North. It includes examples from Sápmi, Canada, Alaska and Greenland. A special focus is given to regional realities and the legislative ...

This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the effect of urbanisation on indigenous peoples and communities. Editorial: Indigenous Peoples and Urbanisation by Jens Dahl & Marianne Jensen Africa: The Living and working conditions of urban-based indigenous peoples by Johnson ole Kaunga Tribal Domestic Working Women in Delhi, India by Samar Bosu Mullick The Situation of Poor Indigenous Peoples i...

This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the issues affecting the indigenous population of Bolivia. Editorial by Alejandro Parellada Bolivia The agrarian process in Bolivia: frustrations with the regulation of land titles by Leonardo Romero Bonifaz and Ana Cecilia Betancur The reality of the regularisation of agricultural land titles: the titling process for the Monte Verde indigenous territory...

This book is a collection of articles written by indigenous leaders and politicians from all parts of Russia. The articles outline the history of indigenous peoples' struggle, events and conditions of the recent decade. The indigenous umbrella organisation in Russia, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2000, an occasion for looki...

Hæfte nr. 13 i serien: Hvem er de indfødte folk? Informations- og undervisningsmateriale om indfødte folk for folkeskolens ældste klasser og den almindeligt interesserede læser. Seriens hæfter har et fælles forord om indfødte folk: Hvem og hvor mange er de? Hvor og hvordan lever de? Hvilke problemer står de indfødte folk overfor? Hvorfor føler de sig truede? Hvad er deres fælles beky...

With contributions from indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists, the 2001-2002 Indigenous World presents an overview of crucial developments in 2001 and early 2002 that have impacted on indigenous peoples. The issue contains: Region and country reports that cover most of the indigenous world.Updated information on the processes within theUN system that relate to indigenous peoples, ...

Hæfte nr. 10 i serien: Hvem er de indfødte folk? Informations- og undervisningsmateriale om indfødte folk for folkeskolens ældste klasser og den almindeligt interesserede læser. Seriens hæfter har et fælles forord om indfødte folk: Hvem og hvor mange er de? Hvor og hvordan lever de? Hvilke problemer står de indfødte folk overfor? Hvorfor føler de sig truede? Hvad er deres fælles beky...

Hæfte nr. 12 i serien: Hvem er de indfødte folk? Informations- og undervisningsmateriale om indfødte folk for folkeskolens ældste klasser og den almindeligt interesserede læser. Seriens hæfter har et fælles forord om indfødte folk: Hvem og hvor mange er de? Hvor og hvordan lever de? Hvilke problemer står de indfødte folk overfor? Hvorfor føler de sig truede? Hvad er deres fælles beky...

This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the results achieved through indigenous peoples' participation within international bodies and processes. Editorial by Lola García-Alix Possible priorities for the first years of work of the Permanent Forum on indigenous issues by Ted Moses Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Perspectives and Challenges by Suhas Chakma Future Perspectives on the draft...

Hæfte nr. 11 i serien: Hvem er de indfødte folk? Informations- og undervisningsmateriale om indfødte folk for folkeskolens ældste klasser og den almindeligt interesserede læser. Seriens hæfter har et fælles forord om indfødte folk: Hvem og hvor mange er de? Hvor og hvordan lever de? Hvilke problemer står de indfødte folk overfor? Hvorfor føler de sig truede? Hvad er deres fælles beky...