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Protocol Seeks to Protect Indigenous Knowledge (Solomon Times Online)

Press Release - 24 October 2010 Nagoya, Japan - Indigenous knowledge should be protected and communities which possess it must be adequately compensated if such knowledge is used for commercial purposes. How much compensation, however, is one of the issues under the microscope in Nagoya...

24 October, 2010

Major companies act to close the gap (The Australian)

Patricia Karvelas, Political Correspondent There has been a dramatic rise in the number of major companies creating indigenous job plans in the past year. A total of 40 companies are offering indigenous engagement initiatives, compared with 28 last year. New research by the Business Council of Australia...

23 October, 2010

Aboriginal court judgment must be honoured Delgamuukw decision mandated a new relationship with government (Times Colonist)

By Troy Donovan Hunter, Special to Times Colonist October 12, 2010 Thirteen years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada came out with the Delgamuukw decision on aboriginal title and issued directives to provincial and federal governments. Yet those directives have not been implemented. The court's directives have much...

12 October, 2010