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Indigenous Rights
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World-Talks # Tame Iti
Tame Iti is a Urewera human rights activist, advocating for the Urewera to be able to maintain their culture, language, and community. Learn more about Tame Iti: http://www.ngaituhoe.com/Folders/Tameiti.html Check out more World-Talks: https://www.world-talks.com/ World-Talks features an online collection of interviews with human rights defenders from all over the world. Through these 10-minute interviews, human rights defenders can tell their stories directly to a global audience and help shed light on the issues they face in their home countries. View talks on Discrimination, Migrant Rights, Minority Rights, LGBTQI and more. Follow World-Talks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldTalksNow Like World-Talks on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldTalksNo... Follow us on Instagram: WorldTalksInsta
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10:56
World-Talks # John Packer
John Packer is the director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre and a professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. Having previously worked with the UNHCR, ILO, and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, he has co-founded the Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy. Advocating against the human rights violations experienced by the indigenous communities in Canada, as well as advocating for more human rights worldwide, John Packer strongly believes in the interdependence of all human rights. Learn more about the Human Rights Research and Education Centre: https://cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca Check out more World-Talks: https://www.world-talks.com/ World-Talks is an online collection of interviews with human rights defenders from all over the world. Through these short interviews, human rights defenders can tell their stories directly to a global audience and help shed light on the issues they face in their home countries. View talks on Discrimination, Migrant Rights, Minority Rights, LGBTQI and more. Follow World-Talks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldTalksNow Like World-Talks on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldTalksNo... Follow us on Instagram: WorldTalksInsta
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World-Talks # Larry Chartrand
Larry Chartrand is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, having been researching aboriginal law and justice for 37 years now. Acknowledging and examining Canada's colonial history and violence towards indigenous people is fundamental in order for Canada to move forward and rectify its human rights violations against the First Nation communities. Check out more World-Talks: https://www.world-talks.com/ World-Talks features an online collection of interviews with human rights defenders from all over the world. Through these 10-minute interviews, human rights defenders can tell their stories directly to a global audience and help shed light on the issues they face in their home countries. View talks on Discrimination, Migrant Rights, Minority Rights, LGBTQI and more. Follow World-Talks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldTalksNow Like World-Talks on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldTalksNo... Follow us on Instagram: WorldTalksInsta
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World Talks # Mai Thin Yumon
Mai Thin Yumon is an indigenous human rights activist, working for the Chin Human Rights Organization. She has been advocating for the rights of the Chin and indigenous people since she was a young student. The Chin people are an ethnic, majority Christian minority in Myanmar who has been the subject of several human rights violations in the country.
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The Personal Experience of Mai Thin Yumon
Mai Thin Yumon is an indigenous human rights activist, working for the Chin Human Rights Organization. She has been advocating for the rights of the Chin and indigenous people since she was a young student. The Chin people are an ethnic, majority Christian minority in Myanmar who has been the subject of several human rights violations in the country.
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