Natural Justice
- Description
Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment is a young and fast-paced non-profit organisation specialising in environmental and human rights law in Africa – in pursuit of social and environmental justice.
As a team of pioneering lawyers and legal experts we offer direct support to communities impacted by the ever-increasing demand for land and resources, conduct comprehensive research on environmental and human rights laws and engage in key national and international processes.
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2019
Amerindian Peoples Assiciation
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- Country
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brasil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Equador
- French Guyana
- Guyana
- Peru
- Surinam
- Description
The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) is a non-governmental Indigenous Peoples organization in Guyana.
Membership of the APA is made up of Units throughout the country, currently amounting to close to eighty such units. The Association is led by an Executive Committee comprising the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary/Treasurer, eleven regional representatives, a women’s representative and a youth representative.
The APA has a central office in Georgetown which is staffed by persons from interior communities who carry out the daily functions of the organization and who provides the link between what is happening in the communities and what is happening at the national and international levels.
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2019
Amerindian Peoples Association (APA)
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- Country
- Guyana
- Description
The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) is a non-governmental Indigenous Peoples organization in Guyana.
Membership of the APA is made up of Units throughout the country, currently amounting to close to eighty such units. The Association is led by an Executive Committee comprising the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary/Treasurer, eleven regional representatives, a women’s representative and a youth representative.
The APA has a central office in Georgetown which is staffed by persons from interior communities who carry out the daily functions of the organization and who provides the link between what is happening in the communities and what is happening at the national and international levels.
- Date added
- Mar 27, 2019
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
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- Country
- Canada
- Description
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᐱᕇᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ, literally "Inuit United with Canada") is a nonprofit organization in Canada that represents over 60,000 Inuit. It was founded in 1971 by Tagak Curley as the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (or in English, Inuit Brotherhood) in Edmonton, Alberta. It has been headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario since 1972. It grew out of the Indian and Eskimo Association that was formed in the 1960s.
- Website
- www.itk.ca/
- Date added
- Mar 26, 2019
Subanon people
- Country
- Philippines
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- Description
Subanon (also spelled Subanen or Subanun) is a tribe indigenous to the Zamboanga peninsula area, particularly living in the mountainous areas of Zamboanga del Sur and Misamis Occidental, Mindanao Island, Philippines. The Subanon people speak the Subanon language. The name means "a person or people of the river."[1] These people originally lived in the lowlying areas. However, due to disturbances and competitions from other settlers like the Muslims, and migrations of Cebuano speakers to the coastal areas attracted by the inviting Land Tenure Laws, further pushed the Subanen into the interior.[2][3]
Subanons generally refer to themselves as a whole as the gbansa Subanon, meaning “the Subanon nation”. They distinguish themselves from each other by their roots or point of origin. These are based on names of rivers, lakes, mountains, or locations.
- Further reading (Wikipedia or other)
- Wikipedia
- Date added
- Mar 20, 2019
Constitutional Court of Columbia
- Country
- Colombia
- Description
The Constitutional Court of Colombia (Spanish: Corte Constitucional de Colombia) is the supreme constitutional court of Colombia. Part of the Judiciary, it is the final appellate court for matters involving interpretation of the Constitution with the power to determine the constitutionality of laws, acts, and statutes.
The court was first established by the Constitution of 1991, and its first session began in March 1992. The court is housed within the shared judicial complex of the Palace of Justice located on the north side of Bolívar Square in the La Candelaria neighbourhood of Bogotá.
The Constitutional Court consists of nine magistrates who are elected by the Senate of Colombia from ternary lists drawn up by the President, the Supreme Court of Justice, and the Council of State. The magistrates serve for a term of eight years. The court is headed by a President and Vice President.
- Date added
- Mar 19, 2019
Good faith
- Description
Good faith (Latin: bona fides), in human interactions, is a sincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction. While some Latin phrases lose their literal meaning over centuries, this is not the case with bona fides; it is still widely used and interchangeable with its generally accepted modern-day English translation of good faith. It is an important concept within law and business. The opposed concepts are bad faith, mala fides (duplicity) and perfidy (pretense). In contemporary English, the usage of bona fides is synonymous with credentials and identity. The phrase is sometimes used in job advertisements, and should not be confused with the bona fide occupational qualifications or the employer's good faith effort, as described below. Read more
- Date added
- Mar 18, 2019
Concepts defined in the protocol
- Description
Are concepts defined in the protocol? (e.g. integral territory, culture, knowledge, sacred sites…)
- Date added
- Mar 18, 2019
Different processes envisaged for different types of projects/proposals
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Follow up meetings (for additional information)
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Internal meetings (actors involved, decision-making processes)
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Information meetings (content, where, with whom and partner participation)
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Meetings for development of specific consultation plan in accordance with the protocol
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Involvement in strategic planning
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Rules in relation to recording and sharing of recordings
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Absence of armed presence in the meetings (police, security or intelligence)
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Freedom to invite third parties, including trusted specialists
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Language of consultations and choice of translators
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Dates that coincide with community activities/calendar
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Process of decision-making, discussion, consensus, voting.
- Date added
- Mar 13, 2019
Local or traditional/subsistence/peasant communities
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation / initial contact
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
International oversight
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Specific ministries
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Municipal government
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- Mar 10, 2019
Reference to indigenous justice or ancestral justice
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
International or regional instruments/jurisprudence
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Addresses particular activities or is all encompassing
- Description
Does it address particular activities or is it all encompassing (projects, administrative or legislative measures etc and are these addressed separately?)
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Seeks to define the entire consultation process
- Description
Does it seek to define the entire consultation process?
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Circumstances that render consultations or consent void (e.g. FPI: creation of division, presence of armed groups, offers of money, threats…)
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Rejection of development project as exchange for recognition of land rights
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Affirmation of the right to decide (language used, yes/no, veto and supporting rationale)
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Rejection certain types of activities / impacts that are critical
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Formal recognition of indigenous’ rights and governance structures
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Community history
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Community governance statutes
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Community resolutions
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Territorial plans and boundaries
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Life plans (self-determined development)
- Date added
- Mar 10, 2019
Process for updating the protocol
- Date added
- Mar 1, 2019
Process for the development of the protocol
- Date added
- Mar 1, 2019
Unique features that reflect the particular communities experience
- Date added
- Mar 1, 2019
Inter/intra-community/people divisions or formalizing modalities of cooperation
- Date added
- Mar 1, 2019
Historical context
- Date added
- Mar 1, 2019
Broader strategy of governance assertion
- Date added
- Mar 1, 2019
Land demarcation
- Date added
- Mar 1, 2019
Pending development projects or experience with past projects
- Date added
- Mar 1, 2019
Kachi Yupi Protocolo Consulta Previa Comunidades Salinas Grandes y Laguna de Guayatayoc
- Date added
- Feb 21, 2019
Bethany
- Population (estimate, min)
- 420
- Country
- Guyana
- Description
Bethany Village is a mission located on the Araburia River, a tributary three miles up the Supenaam River in Region #2, Essequibo in Guyana.
- Further reading (Wikipedia or other)
- Wikipedia
- Date added
- Feb 20, 2019
Role of leaders or chiefs in determining where and when assemblies are held
- Date added
- Feb 20, 2019
Role of General Assemblies and other structures
- Date added
- Feb 20, 2019
Informed
- Description
Nature of the engagement and type of information that should be provided prior to seeking consent and also as part of the ongoing consent process.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
Prior
- Description
Consent is sought sufficiently in advance of any authorization or commencement of activities.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
Cherangany
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
The Sengwer people (also known as Cherang'any and previously as Sekker, Siger, Sigerai and Segelai) are an indigenous community who primarily live in the Embobut forest in the western highlands of Kenya and in scattered pockets across Trans Nzoia, West Pokot and Elgeyo-Marakwet counties. The Sengwer are sometimes portrayed as a component of the Marakwet people but are a distinct ethnic grouping. Wikipedia article
- Date added
- Feb 14, 2019
Consent
- Description
Collective decision made by the right holders and reached through a customary decision-making processes of the communities.
- Date added
- Feb 14, 2019
Free
- Description
Consent given voluntarily and without coercion, intimidation or manipulation. A process that is self-directed by the community from whom consent is being sought, unencumbered by coercion, expectations or timelines that are externally imposed.
- Date added
- Feb 14, 2019
Malayali
- Population (estimate, min)
- 38000000
- Country
- India
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- Description
The Malayali people or Keralite people (also spelt Malayalee) are an ethnic group originating from the present-day state of Kerala in India.[20] They are identified as native speakers of the Malayalam language, which is classified as part of the Dravidian family of languages. As they primarily live in Kerala, the word Keralite is used as an alternative to Malayali. Wikipedia
- Date added
- Nov 13, 2018
Samburu
- Population (estimate, min)
- 160000
- Country
- Kenya
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- Description
The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. They are a sub tribe of the Maasai. The Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels. The name they use for themselves is Lokop or Loikop, a term which may have a variety of meanings which Samburu themselves do not agree on. Many assert that it refers to them as "owners of the land" ("lo" refers to ownership, "nkop" is land) though others present a very different interpretation of the term. The Samburu speak the Samburu dialect of the Maa language, which is a Nilo-Saharan language. There are many game parks in the area, one of the most well known is Samburu National Reserve.The Samburu is the third largest in the Maa community of Kenya and Tanzania,after the Kisonko(Isikirari)of Tanzania and Purko of Kenya and Tanzania. Wikipedia
- Date added
- Nov 6, 2018