Sarah Holcombe, ARC Future Fellow

Mobilising Indigenous Human Rights?

The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Australian Indigenous Urban Elites as advocates for Remote Alterity

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“Global Indigenous Rights and Local Effect in CA: Tracing relations of power, locating potentialities”

2) Sites of Articulation with the UN

• The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (in New York),

• the Expert mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP),

• The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) • and the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous

Peoples. • The later 3 operate through the Human Rights Council in

Geneva.

3) UN Indigenous Peoples Organisations (IPOs)• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance

Corporation (NATSIWAC), • National Native Title Council (NNTC), • New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC), • Office of the Social Justice Commissioner, • First Peoples Disability Network Australia, • Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA), • Foundation for Indigenous Recovery and Development, (FIRDA), • National Aboriginal Cultural Community Health Organisation

(NACCHO), • National Congress of Australia’s First People’s, • National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS),• National Indigenous Higher Education Network (NIHEN) 

4) Some UNPFII participants 2013

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indigenous-Peoples-Organisation-Network-Australia/

5) Amnesty International Australia (AIA)

“Laws fuel discrimination in

Australia’s Northern

Territory”

AIA’s Side Event: UNFFII

2010

6) Matt’s acroynms:

CLC – Central land Council

NLC – northern land council

APONT – Aboriginal Peak Organisations (of the) NT

NAAJA – North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency

7) Ingkintja men’s space;“STOP the violence”

8) Maku Shed (Papunya Computer Room)

https://www.facebook.com/papcomputerroom

The old ‘institution’ kitchen converted to multi-activity fun and learning space: pool tables / movie nights / computers/ films / live music / cooking classes / cafe.

9) Declaration Dialogues

10) Eleanor Roosevelt: UDHR drafting committee

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”