David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education & Research
2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People Indigenous survival: where to from here?
SYMPOSIUM BRADLEY FORUM, HAWKE BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 9-10 December 2010 NORTH TERRACE, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Conference Convenor: Assoc. Professor Irene Watson, David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research
Kaurna meyunna, Kaurna yerta, ngadlu tampendi We recognise the Kaurna people and their land
About the Symposium
The symposium 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People - Indigenous Survival: Where to from here? will be held at the University of South Australia. An international symposium, it will be a gathering of indigenous community members, international lawyers, academics and activists who have worked in the area of international law and the rights of Indigenous Peoples from the 1970s up until the present.
While the passage, in 2007, of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples initially raised expectations that the rights of Indigenous Peoples and their survival as distinct peoples would be protected, it is now seen to be more concerned with broad universal human rights. How does it stand now: does the Declaration advantage the protection of Indigenous Peoples and provide for their advancement? Is the guarantee of their human rights sufficient to prevent the ongoing abuses and genocide visited upon Indigenous Peoples? This symposium will host famed Indigenous commentators and activists from Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, who will provide critical responses to the contemporary position of Indigenous Peoples globally since the 2007 ratification of the Declaration.
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The Participants
Russell Means has been described by the L.A. Times as the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull. During the sixties he captured national attention when he led the 71-day armed siege on the sacred grounds of Wounded Knee, a tiny hamlet in the heart of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. He was the first National Director of the American Indian Movement and instrumental in the drafting of the 1977 “Declaration of Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples”.
Debra Harry is Kooyooe Dukaddo, a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nevada, and is the founder and director of the Indigenous People’s Council on Biocolonialism, an organization created to assist Indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology.
Sharon Venne (Cree) has worked at the Indigenous Government, international and national level on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples since the 1970s and is presently working as the Chief Negotiator with the Akaitcho Dene to implement their Treaty within their territory. Sharon was active in the promotion of the UN Study on Treaties, the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Kari-Oca Declaration and many other initiatives of Indigenous Peoples.
Charmaine Whiteface is an Oglala Tituwan Oceti Sakowin grandmother, writer, activist and the current Spokesperson for the Sioux Nation Treaty Council which was established in 1893. Charmaine is in the process of completing a book entitled An Analysis of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald and Meintangk peoples of the Coorong and South East of South Australia and is an academic with the University of South Australia in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research. Irene has extensive experience working on questions of international law and Aboriginal Peoples.
Paul Coe is a Wiradjuri man, activist and PhD candidate at Sydney University. He was involved in the 1972 establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the national campaign for the recognition of Aboriginal self-determination and land rights.
Moana Jackson is Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Porou, a Maori lawyer and scholar, and teaches in the Māori Law and Philosophy degree programme at Te Wananga o Raukawa. He has worked extensively on international indigenous issues and drafting of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Gary Foley is a lecturer at Victoria University and PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, and as an activist was involved in the 1972 establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the national campaign for the recognition of Aboriginal self-determination and land rights.
Michael Mansell is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, and the High Court of Australia. His Aboriginal heritage is Trawlwoolway and Pinterrairer from the North East of Tasmania. Michael has written many articles on social, political and law reform.
Glenn Morris (Shawnee) is Professor of political science and President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he is the director of the University’s Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics. Glenn has served as a delegate to the UN Commission on Human Rights (now the United Human Rights Council), the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, and the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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