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Fellows will work closely with Cultural Survival staff and a local mentor (a person who can advise, reinforce, and provide feedback to achieve the proposed goals voluntarily) throughout the fellowship process.
Copper, alongside lithium, nickel, graphite, and several other transition minerals, are the key substances required for electrification processes used by both electric vehicles and everyday technologies, including smartphones, upon which humans have become dependent.
In South Australia, a 2021 law strippedthe stateās intergrity body of the power to investigate āmaladministrationā and āmisconductā in public administration and confined its scope to criminal activity.
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The aim was to promote the production of biomass-based briquettes, offering a sustainable alternative to charcoal and thus reducing pressure on local forests while empowering Indigenous women and youth in the fields of entrepreneurship and climate justice.
Overwhelmingly, efforts across the country are devoted to early intervention with children identified as āat riskā in some way (such as showing disruptive behaviour), or to the treatment of young people who become enmeshed in the youth justice system.
With assistance from the Keepers of the Earth Fund, the Council traveled to Juneau, AK and Washington, D.C. to meet with state and federal legislators, as well as other agencies responsible for the proposed Ambler Access Project to apprise them of how the road and mining activities would adversely impact their Tribal lands, life ways, and culture.
To implement these principles, Indigenous leaders at the Summit have committed to initiating processes for their Peoples to safeguard what they ādetermine to be critical for their survival and well-being that is rooted in their worldviews and values,ā and ādisseminate, promote, and defend these principles and protocolsā, as well as āuse them in their education, trainings, and advocacy efforts.ā They will also continue to āengage and challenge regulations, standards, laws, policies, and actions that ignore their Free, Prior, and Informed Consentā, stand in solidarity with one another to oppose the imposition of āgreen energyā projects impacting their lands, call for āimplementation of an ecosystem approach,ā and ādemand that Indigenous, human, environmental, and lands rights defenders be protected.ā
Montesā father, a carpenter, designed the altarpiece so that it closes on itself like a suitcase and thus serves both to protect the books during transport and to attract attention and connect with the local Quechua identity.
Decolonization: For Indigenous Peoples, a just transition rejects the Doctrine of Discovery and the continued imposition of colonial and extractive resource exploitation, false solutions, military occupation, and activities that threaten our mental, spiritual, reproductive, intergenerational, and physical health, biodiversity, natural ecosystems, cultures, values, and plant and animal relatives.
Indigenous Peoples and local communities must be included as equal partners in developing a governance structure Sixteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties 21 October to 1 November 2024, Cali, Colombia that will ensure an inclusive and equitable mechanism directing funds and enhances our collective biodiversity actions.
As a result of mining exploitation, these companies have caused environmental disasters that accelerate the disappearance and contamination of scarce water sources and soils, including the clearing of the sacred Orqu Chualla hill, and seriously affecting the livelihoods and subsistence of the communities.