Sarah Holcombe, ARC Future Fellow
Mobilising Indigenous Human Rights?
The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Australian Indigenous Urban Elites as advocates for Remote Alterity
.
“Global Indigenous Rights and Local Effect in CA: Tracing relations of power, locating potentialities”
2) Sites of Articulation with the UN
• The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (in New York),
• the Expert mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP),
• The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) • and the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples. • The later 3 operate through the Human Rights Council in
Geneva.
3) UN Indigenous Peoples Organisations (IPOs)• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance
Corporation (NATSIWAC), • National Native Title Council (NNTC), • New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC), • Office of the Social Justice Commissioner, • First Peoples Disability Network Australia, • Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA), • Foundation for Indigenous Recovery and Development, (FIRDA), • National Aboriginal Cultural Community Health Organisation
(NACCHO), • National Congress of Australia’s First People’s, • National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS),• National Indigenous Higher Education Network (NIHEN)
4) Some UNPFII participants 2013
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indigenous-Peoples-Organisation-Network-Australia/
5) Amnesty International Australia (AIA)
“Laws fuel discrimination in
Australia’s Northern
Territory”
AIA’s Side Event: UNFFII
2010
6) Matt’s acroynms:
CLC – Central land Council
NLC – northern land council
APONT – Aboriginal Peak Organisations (of the) NT
NAAJA – North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
7) Ingkintja men’s space;“STOP the violence”
8) Maku Shed (Papunya Computer Room)
https://www.facebook.com/papcomputerroom
The old ‘institution’ kitchen converted to multi-activity fun and learning space: pool tables / movie nights / computers/ films / live music / cooking classes / cafe.
9) Declaration Dialogues
10) Eleanor Roosevelt: UDHR drafting committee
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”