ndigenous Peoples Issues and Resources is a worldwide network of organizations, academics, activists, indigenous groups, and others representing indigenous and tribal peoples. We consist of a concerned group of social scientists, activists, scholars, laypeople, indigenous people, and others who all share a combined goal: to provide resources, news, articles, and information on current issues affecting indigenous and tribal peoples around the world. Founded in 2007 by Peter N.
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First Book to Comparatively Explore Policies Toward Indigenous People’s In Canada and India Released
Benny Wenda - The Official website
Indigenous Resistance
Forgotten Bird of Paradise
The Lani Singers
Despite all the suffering that they have borne, the West Papuan people remain remarkably resilient, bonded by the deep community spirit that is so central to their traditional ways of living. Music is the life and soul of West Papua. From the daily eruptions of sound in the jungle through to daybreak when the air is still and you hear the sound of music.
International Parliamentarians for West Papua [IPWP]
THE WEST PAPUA DECLARATION - Launched in London on 1st December 2008
WE the undersigned recognise the inalienable right of the indigenous people of West Papua to self-determination, which was violated in the 1969 “Act of Free Choice”,
AND call upon our governments through the United Nations to put in place arrangements for the free exercise of that right
SO that the indigenous people of West Papua can decide democratically their own future in accordance with international standards of human rights, the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.
Tebtebba
Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education) is an indigenous peoples' organization born out of the need for heightened advocacy to have the rights of indigenous peoples recognized, respected and protected worldwide.
Established in 1996, Tebtebba seeks to promote a better understanding of the world's indigenous peoples, their worldviews, their issues and concerns. In this effort, it strives to bring indigenous peoples together to take the lead in policy advocacy and campaigns on all issues affecting them.
The Indigenous Portal
The Indigenous Portal is an outcome of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS . WSIS was a two-phase series, United Nations (UN) sponsored summit about information and communication. The Geneva Summit in December 2003 laid the foundations with a Declaration of Principles and a plan of action. The Tunis Summit aimed to monitor and evaluate progress on the action plan and devise an agenda that will target goals for achievement by 2015. From these events came the WSIS Declaration and Plan of Action, as well as the Declaration and Plan of Action of the Global Forum of Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society.
West-Papua
REMEMBERING THE BLOOD Of BIAK ANCIDENT, JULY 06, 1998
From July 2 to 6, 1998, when the military opened fire, the mornig star
flag flew over the thirty-five meter-tall water tower near the harbor in
Biak town. The demostranion was led by Filip Karma” Yopy Karma”. The flag
appeard on the top of the tower on July 2, at about 5: 00 a.m. Some
seventy five people gathred beneath it, shouting freedom slogans, singing
songs and dancing traditional dances. Some had painted their faces and
arms with the morning star symbol, and as the demonstration contiuend,



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