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• New auction record set in London for Aboriginal Photographs
  19 May 2004 - Bonhams - Thirty-one 19th Century photographic prints of Aborigines by J W Lindt of Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, sold in London at Bonhams for a new auction record of Aus $135,000. There were sighs of relief amongst the Yaegel local Aboriginal people of the Maclean District of North Coast NSW when a collection of photographs of Aborigines was repatriated to Australia last night (Tuesday, May 18) at Bonhams first London Sale of Photography.
• UN Secretary-General's address to the opening of third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  10 May 2004 - New York - I welcome you all to the Third Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and offer a special welcome to the indigenous women of the world, who are the special theme of this Session.
• Assemblee Generale 2004 d' I.C.R.A. International (16eme Annee)
  5 May 2004 - Le Conseil d’Administration d’ICRA a le plaisir d’inviter les adherent(e)s a participer a l’Assemblee Generale d’ICRA International.
• International Dance Day - Year 2004 - International Dance Day Message
  29th April 2004 -International Theatre Institute/UNESCO - Stephen Page: Dance is the original most ancient form of human expression. Through the body and physical language, dance has a powerful connection with the emotional and spiritual worlds.
• UK: government rejects collective rights for tribal peoples
  23 April 2004 - Survival International - Reversing a century of progress in the recognition of human rights, the UK government has now decided that collective human rights do not exist. If allowed to become official policy, this threatens to harm tribal peoples around the world.
• The Australian Indigenous Band 'Kross Kulcha'  is playing in St Petersburg on 22-25 April 2004
  April 2004 - Young Kimberley band Kross Kulcha has been invited to play at the SKIF-8 in St Petersburg Russia this year, after performing at the Perth International Festival’s Indigenous Showcase in 2003.
• MOLLY KELLY, 1917 TO 2004
  4 February, 2004 - Jeremy Corbyn MP - For your information, 39 signatories eventually signed Early Day Motion (EDM) 558 on Molly Kelly
• Bullie's House to tour UK
  February 2004 - By Thomas Keneally, Winner of the Booker Prize for Schindler's Ark, the play is the true story of Australian Aboriginals who expose their precious ranga, totems which hold the secrets of the world, to the eyes of white Australians, in the belief that the white world in return will exchange its own wisdom and its technology.
• Indigenous Peoples and the Creation of an Inclusive International Legal System
  14 January 2004 - Carnegie Council - Our guest, John Scott, focuses on a human rights-based approach to social justice for aboriginal and indigenous peoples. He has worked as a high school teacher, an aboriginal educational advisor, an indigenous policy officer, a university lecturer, and a senior manager at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. He has a particular interest in biodiversity and the protection of traditional knowledge.
  
  
  

• Queensland indigenous art finds an international audience
  6 November 2003 - Brit’s Art & Promotion - The Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency (QIAMEA), in conjunction with Brit's Art and Promotion, today announced that the special exhibition at the Great Art Exhibition 2003 will exclusively feature works by Queensland’s indigenous artists.
  Premier’s Foreword, Great Art Exhibition, Dusseldorf
• Landmark 'no-go' pledge from leading mining companies
  20 August 2003 - International Council on Mining and Metals - Corporate membership of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) - comprised of 15 of the world's largest mining and metal producing companies – has signed an undertaking to recognise existing World Heritage properties as 'no-go' areas.

• "From the Alice to the Palace": Marketing Aboriginal culture in Europe
  December 13, 2002 - Alice Springs based international Aboriginal dance performer group RED CENTRE DREAMING have just successfully completed a seven month (Feb-September 2002) tour of Europe and the UK promoting Australia and Aboriginal culture to the international travel trade, media and general public.
• International Human Rights day
  10 December 2002 - Statement by representatives of Indigenous Peoples, nations and organizations meeting in Geneva.
• UK Cinemas showing Rabbit-Proof Fence
• The Kimberley Declaration
  International Indigenous Peoples Summit on Sustainable Development, Khoi-San Territory, Kimberley, South Africa
  20-23 August 2002 - "We the Indigenous Peoples of the World assembled here reaffirm the Kari-Oca Declaration and the Indigenous Peoples' Earth Charter. We again reaffirm our previous declarations on human and environmental sustainability."
• Address to the first session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  13 May 2002 - United Nations Deputy Secretary-General - The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is a milestone in the struggle of thousands of indigenous peoples to win recognition of their rights and identities. We should give credit first and foremost to indigenous peoples themselves for coming together behind the idea of a Forum. Next, the Economic and Social Council - and in particular those members that long argued for greater participation of indigenous peoples in the United Nations -- deserves congratulations for its visionary decision to establish the Forum. And last but not least, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and her staff deserve praise for their hard work.

• Aboriginals visit Westminster
  November 19, 2001 - The Aboriginal Tent Embassy - from Canberra Australia today met with members of Westminster Parliament to discuss the fact that the Aboriginals of Australia never ceded their sovereignty to the British when Australia.
• Discrimination against Aborigines in Australia is racially motivated
  August 31, 2001 - Society for Threatened Peoples International - .. are seeking to raise at the World Conference against Racism in Durban. They also aim to call attention to the issue of racial discrimination suffered by Aborigines in Australia.
  
• Groundbreaking guide challenges stereotypes
  August 2001 - Lonely Planet - "There's more to being an Aborigine than playing the didjeridu and posing in a barren landscape, spear in hand, before a mystical dusk backdrop" .. Aboriginal Australia & the Torres Strait Islands, Lonely Planet 2001.
• Victim of Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’ appeals for reparations
  May 18, 2001 - Minority Rights (UK) - The UN Working Group on Minorities which is meeting in Geneva this week heard the testimony of Audrey Ngingali Kinnear, an Indigenous woman from Australia...’.

• Australia's treatment of Aborigines 'appalling'
  September 2000 -Survival International (UK) - As athletes and spectators arrive in Sydney from all over the world, Survival today condemned Australia's treatment of Aborigines as 'appalling'.
• UN Human Rights Committee Findings
  July 28, 2000 - Amnesty International (UK) - Today's findings of the UN Human Rights Committee on Australia's record of civil and political rights confirm Amnesty International's major concerns on the country....
• A constitution lacking human rights guarantees is nothing to celebrate
  July 5, 2000 - Amnesty International (UK) - Human rights protection in Australia largely remains subject to an outdated British-Australian "gentlemen's agreement" that international standards do not need to be enshrined in law.....
• Prime Ministerial Joint Statement on Aboriginal Remains
  July 5, 2000 -The Australian and British governments agree to increase efforts to repatriate human remains to Australian indigenous communities. In doing this, the governments recognise the special connection that indigenous people have with ancestral remains, particularly where there are living descendants.
• Australia shies away from UN scrutiny
  March 30, 2000 - Amnesty International (UK) - By deciding to review Australia's participation in UN treaty committees, the government shows a deplorable lack of respect for and understanding of the crucial role they play within the UN human rights system....
• Prime Minister's disregard of human rights obligations shocks A.I.
  February 18, 2000 - Amnesty International (UK) - In an ironic coincidence, the United Nations Secretary General's praise for Australia's assistance to East Timor today contrasts with the Australian Prime Minister's refusal to accept that universal human rights standards equally apply to his own country...
• Amnesty International submission on juvenile mandatory sentencing
  February 14, 2000 - Amnesty International (UK) -The application of Australia's mandatory sentencing laws to juveniles is clearly inconsistent with its international human rights obligations, Amnesty International warned the government four months ago....

• Citizens Against Discrimination: sacred stone returned to Aboriginal leaders in Australia
  23 August 1999 - Citizens Against Discrimination - Hendersonville, North Carolina -- Charles Merrill, an environmentalist did not at first realise how revered and powerful to its Aboriginal group of origin the churinga stone actually is. He decided to return it so that it could be sold to raise funds for the protection of an island in the Torre Straits. The Island is sacred to traditional Aboriginal women, and was being threatened with the development of a vacation resort. Once he began a dialogue with the repatriation office of the Central Land Council in Alice Springs, Australia, however, he learned that the churinga stone is too sacred and too powerful to be sold under any circumstances.
  
• Australian Government's dismissal of UN criticism undermines hard-earned credibility in human rights diplomacy
  March 19, 1999 - Amnesty International (UK) - The Australian government's inappropriate attitude to United Nations criticism on its "racially discriminatory" practices puts at stake the credibility of Australia's human rights diplomacy...

• Return Of Tasmanian Aboriginal Remains
  December 1, 1997 - The University handed over the limited Tasmanian Aboriginal hair samples from its anatomy collection to a delegation from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre at a ceremony held in Old College.
• Treaties, agreements and "constructive arrangements": indigenous people and the legal landscape
  November 24, 1992 - United Nations Information Centre in Sydney for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific - Many treaties between indigenous people and the Governments of the countries in which they live carry great symbolic and spiritual meaning. To indigenous people, treaties are seen as providing recognition of their right to self-determination and a guarantee of respect for their collective rights. Indeed, for people whose recent history has been largely one of discrimination and marginalization, marked by land dispossession, forced relocation, cultural assimilation and, in some cases, genocide, a foundation of legal protections is considered vital.
• Indigenous and Tribal Peoples: A Guide to ILO Convention No. 169
  Adopted at the International Labour Conference (Geneva, June, 1989). Australia to date has not ratified this convention. It is notable that, in spite of the relatively slow rate of ratifications, this Convention has had significant influence on domestic policies and programmes, as well as the policy guidelines of several funding agencies. This shows that, to induce changes in the perception of the problems and the ways to solve them, ratification, though desirable and, in the long term, necessary, is not indispensable in the short and medium term.
  ILO Convention No.169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
  
  
  
  
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