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Touching hopes and cruel realities; the commonwealth of nations indigenous project.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04 		Format: Online - approximately 964 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Touching hopes and cruel realities; the commonwealth of nations indigenous project.(indigenous policy research project)

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The fifty-four member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations--formerly the British Empire--include some of the world's best and worst indigenous circumstances and related public policies. While world organisations have been increasingly recognising indigenous needs, not so the Commonwealth, which only budged when the European Union (no doubt with a wry smile) funded an indigenous policy research project run by the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit (CPSU), University of London (http://www.cpsu.org.uk/projects/ indigenous/indigenous.htm). The fairy godmother of Commonwealth indigenous rights was in no small part the Hon. Margaret Reynolds, former Australian federal minister and chair of the Commonwealth Human Rights International Advisory Commission, who has been so knowledgeable and active in the indigenous field for so long.

The Miner's Canary, by Paul Havemann and indigenous project head Helena Whall, surveyed indigenous issues vis-a-vis sustainable development for the UN 2002 world summit. Invisible lives: Undercounted, underrepresented and...

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