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24 Oct Protocol Seeks to Protect Indigenous Knowledge (Solomon Times Online)

Posted at 10:57h in News, Posts

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...

23 Oct Major companies act to close the gap (The Australian)

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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...

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

Posted at 07:33h in News, Posts

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...