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AFN and AFN Women’s Council Support Call for National Action Plan to End Violence Against Indigenous Women (CNW)

OTTAWA, Oct 4 /CNW/ - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo and AFN Women's Council Chair Kathleen McHugh today expressed continued support for the leadership and efforts of the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) through the Sisters in Spirit campaign in...

04 October, 2010

Wild Rivers: environmental colonization (ABC)

In all of the current debate on the Queensland Government's Wild Rivers laws, one major matter is being completely missed. That matter is the process of contemporary environmental colonisation of Cape York. Where once Indigenous rights in land were taken by colonialists for economic gain,...

01 October, 2010

Circle sentencing expanded in NSW (Sydney Morning Herald)

A radical justice scheme that brings indigenous offenders face to face with their victims and allows Aboriginal elders to help decide sentences is being expanded across NSW. The state government will on Thursday announce the rollout of Circle Sentencing to regional centres Moree, Ulladulla, Wellington and...

30 September, 2010