Australia is a wealthy country; however, available evidence suggests that food security among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has not yet been achieved. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in remote, regional, and urban parts of Australia experience food insecurity for a number of reasons that usually include low income and a lack of access to affordable and healt...

The troubling economic outcomes faced by many of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples are well documented. The most recent release of the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) revealed that the gaps in labour market outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities continue to persist. Worse still, the progress made since 1996 in closing those gaps has stagnated from the 2006 Census (Table 1). T...

The Agreements Treaties and Negotiated Settlements (ATNS) database (www.atns.net.au) is an online gateway and resource that links current information, historical detail and published material relating to agreements made between indigenous peoples and others in Australia and overseas. Designed for use by indigenous and other community organisations, researchers, government and industry bodies, t...

The article assesses the material footprints of households living on a minimum amount of social benefits in Finland and discusses the consequences in terms of ecological and social sustainability. The data were collected using interviews and a questionnaire on the consumption patterns of 18 single households. The results are compared to a study on households with varying income levels, to avera...

there is a quotation in the holy quran (21:105) from the book of psalms: “the righteous shall inherit the earth”. a similar sentence can be found in psalm (37:29). a comparison between these verses would illustrate that “salih” is the quranic equivalent of the hebrew word “saddiq”. this equivalence would allow us to compare usages of “salih” in quran and “saddiq” in the book of psalms. this com...

BACKGROUND Mental health is neglected in most parts of the world. For the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America, the plight is even more severe as there are no specific mental health services designed for them altogether. Given the high importance of mental health for general health, the status quo is unacceptable. Lack of research on the subject of Indigenous Peoples' mental health means that st...

We address the issue of limit cycling behavior in training Generative Adversarial Networks and propose the use of Optimistic Mirror Decent (OMD) for training Wasserstein GANs. Recent theoretical results have shown that optimistic mirror decent (OMD) can enjoy faster regret rates in the context of zero-sum games. WGANs is exactly a context of solving a zero-sum game with simultaneous noregret dy...

1. What is the definition of ‘minorities’ and ‘indigenous peoples’? The term ‘minority’ as used in the United Nations human rights system refers to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities as laid out in the United Nations Declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (General Assembly resolution 47/135 of 18 December 19...

This paper introduces a grid-based strategy for determining the secret code in the game Mastermind. The grids allow for a decent human player, while also providing a computer player that always has explicit knowledge of the progress.

Along with the exploding attention to globalization, issues of global justice have become central elements in political philosophy. After decades in which debates were dominated by a state-centric paradigm, current debates in political philosophy also address issues of global inequality, global poverty, and themoral foundations of international law. As recent events have demonstrated, these iss...