Standing back, the greatest influence of Indigenous Peoples on international law is our contribution to a pragmatically-driven yet conscious reframing its foundations. Partly as result participation in law, it changing nineteenth and twentieth century state-centric, colonial, positivist character more informal, flexible, partially decolonizing system law. In this way, are crafting legal that ac...

Prospective memory is a complex cognitive function requiring to remember a planned action. For example, this function is particularly important for elderly people to remember taking medication at the appropriate time. The comparison of the performance of old and young peoples on different prospective memory tasks led to two contradictory results, a configuration that has been dubbed "age-prospe...

I Resume In the history of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada, there has been an imbalance in acculturative influences. Generally, Aboriginal peoples have been changed substantially, with serious erosion of their cultures and identities. However, this dominance by EuroCanadian peoples has also been met by resistance by Aboriginal peoples. Policy and programme change...

BACKGROUND Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are under-reported in administrative health datasets in NSW, Australia. Correct reporting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is essential to measure the effectiveness of policies and programmes aimed at reducing the health disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This study investigates the ...

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...

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...

Academia and practice have increased their investment in young peoples’ participation. One key approach has been the shift from extracting data people to engaging them as researchers. Drawing on 2 case studies with Syrian refugees Bangladeshi people, this paper critically reflects tensions between participation, power, ethics whilst lead There are dual objectives people-led research: (a) empowe...