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Ottawa wins praise for endorsing UN indigenous-rights declaration (Globe and Mail)

John Ibbitson The Harper government stepped up to the plate Friday, formally signing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ending Canada’s isolation as one of two countries that refused to endorse the text. The non-binding declaration commits member states to protect the...

12 November, 2010

Dream Shield to protect Indigenous ideas (ABC News)

By Bronwyn Herbert A new resource to protect the intellectual property (IP) of Indigenous Australians is being launched today. A project known as Dream Shield has been launched to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to profit from their ideas and traditional knowledge. But the project had a...

11 November, 2010

At Uluru, a silver anniversary gives the owners a key to prosperity (Sydney Morning Herald)

Lindsay Murdoch RETURNING Ayers Rock to its Anangu traditional owners 25 years ago was a symbolic moment for indigenous land rights. However, it failed to provide the jobs and training for Aborigines that were expected as a luxury desert resort and tourism grew at the...

27 October, 2010