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Chapter overview - Indigenous rights

1 August 2007, 07:44PM

Indigenous peoples rights

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Indigenous peoples globally face unequal access to justice and government services, as well as the loss of their identity as a result of policies designed to assimilate them by destroying their culture. In Australia the dispossession of Aboriginal Australians from their land and resources has contributed to their impoverishment and ill-health. From 1900 to 1969, Australian Aboriginal children were removed from their families to assimilate them into the white way of life. This chapter explores how this experience of forced assimilation has affected many Indigenous people's lives and some of the efforts to redress this historic abuse of their human rights.

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The chapter features:

  • Introduction: Rabbit Proof Fence
  • Exploring the issue: overview of Indigenous history
  • Assimilation, integration and self-determination
  • Investigation: Aboriginal-led initiatives
  • Stories from members of the Stolen Generation
  • the Stolen Generation and human rights
  • Indigenous people worldwide
  • Draft Declaration on the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • The Sorry campaign
  • Attitude scale: who is responsible?
  • Compensation for the Stolen Generation
  • Investigation: broader justice for Aboriginal people
  • Human rights defender: Michael Long