Traditional
Knowledge Bulletin
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- This week
in review … Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples meets in
Geneva
- Meeting
prep: WIPO IGC 25
- Meeting
prep: Conference on scaling-up strategies to secure community land and
resource rights
- Resource:
Report on indigenous voices in climate change adaptation in Australia
- Resource:
Paper on the co-management of protected areas and native title in
Australia
- Resource:
Book on indigenous fire ecology
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 04:53 AM
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Sixth session
of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
8-12 July 2013 (Geneva, Switzerland)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: The Expert
Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) will be addressing: the
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples; follow-up to past mandated thematic
studies; the draft study on access to justice in the promotion and protection
of the rights of indigenous peoples, for finalization and submission to the
Human Rights Council at its 24th session; the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, with focus on the use of the Declaration to promote and
protect the rights of indigenous peoples, and the results of the
questionnaire to seek the views of states and indigenous peoples on best
practices with regard to possible appropriate measures and implementation
strategies to attain its goals; and proposals to be submitted to the Human
Rights Council for consideration and approval, including on how the EMRIP’s
thematic expertise could assist the Council in the implementation of its
mandate and mechanisms. Visit the
session’s webpage, including links to background documents … Download the
draft study on access to justice [pdf] … Download the
compilation of recommendations, conclusions and advice from EMRIP studies on
the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples [pdf] …
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 04:51 AM
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WIPO
Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources,
Traditional Knowledge and Folklore: Twenty-Fifth Session
15-24 July 2013 (Geneva, Switzerland)
In line with its mandate, the
WIPO IGC will continue text-based negotiations on an international
instrument/s on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional
knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. This session will focus on
traditional cultural expressions. On the occasion of IGC 25, the indigenous
panel, entitled “Indigenous peoples’ perspectives on intellectual property
protection for traditional cultural expressions: beneficiaries, subject
matter, rights, and exceptions,” will take place on 15 July 2013. A live
webcast of the IGC 25 proceedings, including the indigenous panel, will be
made available on the WIPO website. Visit the
meeting’s webpage, including links to background documents … Download the
report of the Indigenous Expert Workshop on Intellectual Property and Genetic
Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions,
organized by the WIPO Secretariat in cooperation with SPFII [pdf] …
Download the
draft articles on the protection of traditional cultural expressions [pdf] …
Further
information on the indigenous panel … Follow the live webcast …
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 04:48 AM PDT
Scaling Up Strategies to Secure
Community Land and Resource Rights – an International Conference to take
stock of current efforts, identify promising strategies and catalyze new
alliances and action
19-20 September 2013 (Interlaken, Switzerland)
Organized by the Rights and
Resources Initiative, the International Land Coalition, Oxfam and IUCN, this
international conference will bring together a wide diversity of
stakeholders, including governments, local communities, indigenous peoples’
organizations, private investors, food and resource companies, and
conservation organizations, that have a direct, common, and urgent interest
in clarifying and securing the ownership of these lands and resources. The
conference will serve as an opportunity to share experiences on leading
strategies to recognize and secure local land rights, including mapping and
other technical interventions, legal and policy reforms, international
standards and accountability, and innovative financial mechanisms to support
real action and progress. It will aim to increase the profile and
prioritization of community land rights as a global concern, catalyze new
ideas and alliances, and secure commitments to take these strategies forward
in coming months and years.
Applications for participation
should be made online by 15 July 2013. All applications will be
evaluated by the organizing committee on the basis of the interest and
ability of the organization to contribute to strategies to support community
land rights. Limited funding is available to reduce participation costs for
candidates from the global south. Read the open
call for participation … Visit the conference website …
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 04:46 AM
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Indigenous
voices in climate change adaptation: Addressing the challenges of diverse
knowledge systems in the Barmah-Millewa
Dave Griggs et al, Monash University, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, 2013 | ISBN: 978-1-925039-64-1
This publication is the final
report of a project which investigated how the deep knowledge of the Yorta
Yorta people can be used to strengthen their participation and influence in
the complex national and regional processes that determine how their traditional
lands, which are in the highly contested Murray-Darling Basin, are managed,
leading to improved adaptation decisions both for the Yorta Yorta and the
wider community. The approach developed was the creation of Geographical
Information System (GIS) mapping framework, containing both Yorta Yorta
knowledge and more conventional knowledge. Project components included:
development and testing of protocols and methodology for the collection and
protection of Yorta Yorta knowledge; building of a GIS framework to integrate
both the Yorta Yorta knowledge and more conventional data about the climate,
hydrology and biodiversity of the Yorta Yorta area; exploration of the views
of the broader community regarding management of the region and adaptation
alternatives through a stakeholder consultation process; and identification
of broader lessons for improving adaptation of First Nations communities in
Australia. The project raised community awareness and knowledge and energized
the Yorta Yorta youth to take an interest in their history and culture, ad in
the climate challenges facing their community. Download the
report [pdf] …
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 04:43 AM
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Pathways to
the co-management of protected areas and native title in Australia
Toni Bauman, Chris Haynes and Gabrielle Lauder, AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper no. 32, May 2013 | ISBN: 9781922102119
This paper first provides an
overview of the regulatory and non-regulatory rules and norms that frame the
entrance to co-management arrangements in Australia, including Commonwealth,
state and territory jurisdictions, and discusses a number of evolving pathways
to co-management in Australia, in particular native title. It then makes some
jurisdictional comparisons of these institutional arrangements, questioning
their relative value and whether their diversity is creating significant
inequities among Aboriginal people. It also discusses a number of issues in
making such comparisons and highlights the importance of flexible
co-management arrangements on an incremental pathway to “full” co-management
arrangements with a number of provisos, including that governments formally
agree to such a progression at the outset. The authors also argue that
institutionalized arrangements do not tell the full story about what is
actually happening on the ground, and discuss a number of issues that can
arise as such arrangements play out in practice. Finally, the paper suggests
that there is a need to normalize a culture in which co-management is
conceived as an ongoing process of the negotiation of meaning and
relationships within and across parties. Seen through such a lens,
co-management is a distinctive and complex single form of governance in which
traditional owners, indigenous organizations and bureaucracies interact to
produce shared outcomes. Download the
paper [pdf] …
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 04:41 AM
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Ignition
Stories: Indigenous Fire Ecology in the Indo-Australian Monsoon Zone
Cynthia Fowler Carolina Academic Press, 2013 | ISBN: 78-1-61163-115-9
In this ethnography, the author
describes actual and mythical fire events she witnessed or heard while living
with the Kodi of Sumba, Indonesia. These stories are interspersed with
ethnographic observations about rituals, descriptions of social relations, analyses
of land tenure, and assessments of ecological and historical sources.
Chapters include: creating self, society and ecosystems, including the
“sociality” of fire; fire history, including from the Kodi perspective; fire
mapping; pyrospheres, addressing the links of fire to social relationships;
fire in the Kodi cosmos; the ecological effects and management of fire; the
taboos and rituals of the Kodi; and governance of forests and fires. Further
information on the book … Download a
book review by Christian A. Kull, Journal of Political Ecology vol.
20, 2013 [pdf] …
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