CALL FOR PAPERS

The World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium invites papers for the 2008 edition of the WINHEC Journal.

The 2008 edition will be published online in November 2008. The theme of this edition is

Indigenous voices - Indigenous places

Contributors are asked to broadly address the theme by reporting on research or practice that affirms indigenous places in culture, language or education. We encourage writers to use interviews with indigenous peoples (voices) as the basis of their papers

The deadline for Papers July 31st 2008.

Please note the deadline has been extended.

Press Statement to the Australian Press.

WINHEC Congratulates Australian Prime Minister.

Mr Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia is to be congratulated on his forthright and long overdue apology to the stolen generation said Turoa Royal the Executive Chairperson of the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC). With membership from countries and states such as Alaska, Australia Canada, United States, Hawaii, Taiwan, Saamiland, Columbia, and New Zealand, the announcement has attracted the attention of many indigenous peoples of the world. They have focussed on the statement of reconciliation and wonder why it has taken so long to find a leader strong and brave enough to apologise on behalf of the peoples of Australia.

Monday, 18 February 2008

CANBERRA, February 17, 2008: The federal government is preparing to endorse the landmark United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, after opposition by the former Howard government.

Just days after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd led the federal parliament in apologising to members of the Stolen Generations, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith on Sunday revealed the government was consulting with stakeholders about reversing Australia's opposition to the declaration.

Australia was one of just four countries which last year voted against the non-binding declaration of the UN General Assembly that sets out the rights of the world's estimated 370 million indigenous people.

Janet Chernela
Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies
University of Maryland

presents

"Keeping Time: Genes, Wives, and History in Yanomami Blood Collections and the Debates about Them"

Thursday, February 21
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building

This event is free and open to the public.

In this presentation, Professor Chernela problematizes the idea of the "past" in order to consider it within the contexts of differing perspectives and interests. The discussion draws examples from three cases of blood collection among the indigenous Yanomami of Brazil and Venezuela. The first is the much debated collection, made by reputable research scientists Neel and Chagnon in the 1960s. The second and third are cases of recent collections made by Yanomami nurses and medical NGOs, respectively, for purposes of health care. The paper raises a number of ethical and philosophical questions regarding the past, its meanings, and claims to it.

University of Technology, Mauritius, 5-7 January 2009

http://www.SustainabilityConference.com

This Conference aims to develop a holistic view of sustainability, in
which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably
interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse
fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability.

As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium
presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would

The Global University Network for Innovation - GUNI is pleased to announce the 4th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development.

Barcelona, 31 March - 2 April 2008
Click here for the GUNI Website

Higher education is undergoing a process of continued change and adaptation to the new realities arising from globalization. The requirement to contribute to socio-economic development is compounded by the need to contribute to other key aspects of human and social development.

Journal 2007

Head Office is overjoyed at the recent completion of the WINHEC Journal for 2007 titled "Indigenous voices, Indigenous visions"

The journal is currently at print and will be ready in time for our AGM in Hawaii at the end of this month. Hard copies will be available to purchase at a later stage and an online copy will also be uploaded to this site for your viewing.

The Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is pleased
to inform you that applications for grants under the Trust Fund on
Indigenous Issues relating to the Second International Decade of the
World's Indigenous People are now being accepted. The closing deadline
is 1 November 2007. For further information please visit our website at:

Click Here to access Website

The Trust Fund for the Second Decade was established to promote, support
and implement the objectives of the Decade. The Fund will give priority

Click Here for the updated version of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The government's opposition to the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people will anger tangata whenua, the Maori Party says.

The UN General Assembly passed a sweeping declaration of rights for indigenous peoples today despite claims from New Zealand that it gave excessive property and legal powers.

Four countries - the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - voted against the nonbinding declaration, but it went through overwhelmingly with 143 votes in favor and 11 abstentions. Not all countries in the 192-member Assembly took part in the vote.

Under negotiation for 20 years, the document says that indigenous people, whose number has been put at 270 million worldwide as understood by the declaration, "have the right to self-determination."