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People
Profile
- The Somali People
(Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia)
Somalia
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MAP
from Somalia
Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Cartographic
Section, Map No. 3690, Rev. 6
UNITED NATIONS, July 2004
DECLARATION
OF THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS - MUMBAI 2004
We, the people's movements representing workers, peasants and
agricultural workers, women, Dalits and Adivasis, indigenous peoples,
fisher peoples, urban poor, the physically and mentally handicapped
and other sectors of the poor and oppressed, have again come together
in Mumbai from 16-20 January 2004 for the People's Movements
Encounters Part II.
Convention
concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (ILO
No. 169), 72 ILO Official Bull. 59, entered into force Sept. 5, 1991
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office, and having met in its seventy-sixth
session on 7 June 1989, and Noting the international standards
contained in the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention and
Recommendation, 1957...
Convention
on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export
and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property - 17 Nov 70
Entry in force: 24 April 1972. - The General Conference of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, meeting in
Paris from 12 October to 14 November 1970, at its sixteenth session...
PROTECTION
OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN TIME OF WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
by JAMES A. R. NAFZIGER - James Nafziger is the Thomas B. Stoel
Professor of Law and Director of International Programs, Willamette
University College of Law. He chairs the Committee on Cultural
Heritage Law of the International Law Association (ILA) and serves as
President of the ILA's American Branch. He is also a member of IFAR's
Law Advisory Council.
International
Alliance Charter
(Established Penang, Malaysia, 15 Feb 1992)
- (Revised Nairobi, Kenya, 22 Nov 2002)
Article 1. - We, the indigenous and tribal peoples of the
tropical-forests, present this charter as a response to hundreds of
years of continual encroachment and colonisation of our territories
and the undermining of our lives, livelihoods and cultures caused by
the destruction of the forests that our survival depends on. ...
AFRICAN
'INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' SEARCHING FOR A FUTURE
Archive 1993 - 'Indigenous Peoples' from all corners of the
African continent have met for the first time to take stock of their
situation and organise for their future.
Bibliography
of Foraging Peoples
by Robert Lawless robert.lawless@wichita.edu
please go to: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_forage1.html#A
Hunters-Gatherers
The earliest ancestors of man may well have originated in what is now
East Africa, as far back as five - perhaps even eight million years
ago, taking into consideration the recent findings of the “Tugen
Man” in Kenya. Most of this pre-history of mankind is contained in
bones and stones, in middens (dunghills or rubbish heaps) and museums,
in scholarly theories and painstaking excavations. The history of our
ancestors continues to live in present peoples and cultures.
Indigenous
Peoples’ Declaration PDF
Indigenous Preparatory Meeting - 16-17 JUNE, 2002 -
International Association Centre- Brussels, Belgium
Our
Perspective on WHAT is ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE?
To Aboriginal peoples, native to the land they live in since time
immemorial, the term "environmental justice" goes beyond the
issue of disproportionate toxic and nuclear contamination and health
exposure of our elders, men, women, youth, children and our
traditional food web. ... ff
THE
INTERNATIONAL CANCUN DECLARATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
5th WTO Ministerial Conference - Cancun, Quintana Roo,
Mexico, 12 September 2003 - We, the international representatives of
Indigenous Peoples gathered here during the 5th WTO
Ministerial Conference in Cancun, Mexico from 10-14 September 2003
wish to extend our thanks to the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico,
particularly the Mayan Indigenous Peoples of Quintana Roo, for
welcoming us.
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES KYOTO WATER DECLARATION
Third World Water Forum, Kyoto, Japan,
March 2003
Land
Rights Movements PDF
Professor Daniel W. Bromley - University of Wisconsin-Madison ---
Indigenous peoples in territories subjected to European conquest
dating from the late 15th century onward have managed to focus
national and international attention on their subjugation and
dispossession. These various movements, primarily concentrated in
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South America, and the United States,
began in different places at different times over the past several
decades.
ABORIGINAL
LAND RIGHTS
- looking over the fence to Australia
The Indigenous spending drip - Land rights - the new debate we had to
have - Crikey Daily - Tuesday, 12 April - Political
correspondent Christian Kerr writes: “Indigenous communities
have suffered from misplaced idealism,” Jenness Warren, a workplace
English language and literacy tutor for the Laynhapuy Homeland
Association Inc in the Northern Territory, wrote in a Financial
Review (see below).
Environmental
Colonialism: “Saving” Africa from Africans
Under the banner of saving the African environment, Africans in the
last half century have been subjected to colonialism from an
overlooked source: the conservation movement. Local populations have
been displaced and impoverished in order to create national parks and
to serve other conservation objectives, in large part because Western
conservationists misunderstand African wildlife management practices
and problems.
THE
REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING
Most of us associate the holiday with happy
Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen
- once. - The story began in 1614 when
a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of
Patuxet Indians bound for slavery.
Is
primitivism realistic? An anarchist reply to John Zerzan and others
(December 1, 2005) A reply to primitivist critiques of 'Civilisation,
Primitivism and Anarchism' - - One of the major confusions in the
anarchist movement in the USA and parts of Europe arises out of
primitivism and its claim to be part of the anarchist movement. But
primitivism is not a realistic strategy for social revolution and it
opposes the basic purpose of anarchism - the creation of a free mass
society. Primitivists have attempted to reply to these criticisms but
these replies are easily exposed as more to do with faith then reality.
Why
Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean
Book Review - The Western Journal of Black Studies - Although the
question of race has been an important sociological issue ever since
the development of anthropology as a study of different human groups,
contemporary philosophy has had relatively little to say about the
topic. Interestingly enough though, three of the luminaries of Western
philosophy did write about race as if those human groups that
distinguished themselves both geographically and phenotypically
constituted natural kinds in terms of temperament and intellect.
SUB-COMMISSION
CONCLUDES DEBATE ON PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION
Speakers Stress Need to Protect Indigenous
Peoples and Other Vulnerable Minority Groups - The
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights this
afternoon concluded its consideration of the prevention of
discrimination after hearing from non-governmental organizations and
national representatives.
PROFILE
OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT : SOMALIA (PDF)
Compilation of the information available in the Global IDP Database of
the Norwegian Refugee Council (as of 20 June, 2003)
Tribe
or Nation?
(PDF)
Nation-Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania
Report on minority
groups in Somalia (PDF)
Joint British, Danish and Dutch fact-finding
mission to Nairobi, Kenya, December 2000
War
Impact on Women in Somalia (PDF)
Somalia has been without a central government since its last
president, dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, fled the country in 1991.
Subsequent fighting among rival faction and clan leaders resulted in
the killing, rape dislocation, and starvation of thousands of persons
and led the United Nations to send peacekeepers in 1992. ...
UNITED
NATIONS - Economic and SocialCouncil (PDF)
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights - Fifty-fifth session - Item 5 of the provisional agenda -
PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION - Discrimination based on work and
descent Expanded working paper submitted by Mr. Asbjørn Eide and Mr.
Yozo Yokota pursuant to
Sub-Commission decision 2002/108*
THE
FACE AND VOICE OF MIDGANS
A few weeks ago, I was sent a letter, via
email; from readers of my Article about titled “Freedom without
Equality” wuxuu yiri, “Midguhu ayaga ka masuul ah dhibka
haysta waayo way is Qariyaan. Dad is qarinaya sidee dadka loola simi
karaa?” he said “Midgans are responsible for their
problems because they hide their tribe name and how can you be equal
with other Somali tribes when you are invisible?” I agree with this
reader his idea partially, so his blame forced me to write this
Article in order to make him very clear of what kind of idea that I am
holding personally or preaching for?
Reflections
of Midgan
by Rhoda A. Rageh - Recently
many intellectuals from somaliland seem to have recognized the
need to correct some of the enduring ills of our society
especially on the issue of the gabooye community. However, as the
discourse rages from shifting blame and building awareness of
"yassid" to weak promises of support for the cause of
the gabooye community, and manifestoes from them suggesting proper
political participation, I deliberate on the problem itself and
wonder if there is actually an issue to support. Anyone who
succeeds in identifying the problem has to at least begin by
putting his own bigotry aside before he or she attempts to right
the wrongs of this baseless misconception.
MIDGAN’S CONTRIBUTION
A
question that is commonly asked Somalians when two strangers meet each
other is “ what is your tribe?!!! “Where as an Americans and
Europeans “ is what do you do for living?” Work is not a central
focus in Somalian lives, work not able us to earn money to pay our
bills, but it can also provide a sense of self-respect and
self-reliability.
A
study on minorities in Somalia
Until recently, many people perceived Somalia as a country
with a population of 7,000,0000 people who share one culture, one
language and one religion. This was the impression given during
previous regimes in order to sustain the illusion of homogeneity.
One of the things that were deliberately downplayed was the
existence of minority groups. Although the population of minority
groups living in Somalia has not as yet been established,
estimates indicate that they constitute one third of the total
Somalia population; approximately 2,000,000 people. The minority
groups include Bantu, Bravenese, Rerhamar, Bajuni, Eyle, Galgala,
Tumal, Yibir and Gaboye. These groups continue to live in
conditions of great poverty and suffer numerous forms of
discrimination and exclusion.
SOMALIA
ASSESSMENT (WORD)
Version 4 - September 1999 - Country Information and Policy Unit
Report
of the Somalia Commission of Inquiry (CANADA) 1997
This chapter is about the political
and socio-economic context in which the Canadian Airborne Regiment
Battle Group (CARBG) carried out its mission to Somalia. It
describes the region's geography, culture, political, and social
structure, and surveys significant events leading to the civil war
and the end of Siad Barre's regime. It also examines the situation
in Somalia when the United Nations intervened and the social and
political conditions in Belet Huen when the CARBG was deployed.
At
The Hand Of Man - The White Man's Game
Prince Bernhard and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) - To attract
donors, large and small, as well as media attention, Nicholson,
Scott and the founding fathers of WWF wanted the royal family to
lend their name. They approached Prince Philip to be president.
Philip was an avid outdoorsman and hunter-in January 1961 he had
bagged a Bengal tiger in India-and he and Queen Elizabeth had been
to Kenya, on a safari best remembered because King George VI died
while they were watching wild animals and Princess Elizabeth had
become Queen. Scott sent Philip a draft of the proposed charter.
Philip read it carefully, replying that one provision was "unctuous,"
and another "to wordy."....
Hunter-Gatherer
Bibliography
This bibliography was last up-dated on June 16, 1997
WE
DO NOT WANT TO BECOME AND END LIKE ISHI
Ishi was the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe. He was born
about 1862. The Yahi were related to the Yana Indians who once
lived in northern California of todays USA.
World
Wide Fraud - Pandering to the Demands of Industry
All around the world, as you read this, children of other cultures
are being kidnapped and forced into schools against their will and
that of their tribes. People from Indonesia to Zaire are being
forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands into shoddy shanty
towns with poor sanitation and bad food. These people want to stay
in their homelands, living as they always have; with no leaders
and no civilisation; hunting and gathering.
Somali
Language and Grammar (Yibir and Midgan Dialects)
are getting renewed attention - Some
resources
STORY:
A
lion's share - © by Joe Palmer
- Two British Tommies in short pants, with machine pistols on slings
over their shoulders, escorted us off the airplane from Mogadishu,
Somalia, at the airport in Aden in what is now Yemen in South Arabia.
Aden was becoming part of the People's Republic of Yemen in south
Arabia. It was 1967, the year of independence from British rule.
THE TEARS OF MIDGAN
Why most well educated somalis
were silent for many centuries this malady? Sadly, the people of Midgan are still portrayed and out looked as less
than full members of our Somali society. Labels such as
"vegetative state" Out side tribes of Somalia, the Sab and
Somali, the Gun and Gob, put it to somebody an image of the person
with a disability because of his tribe legend or his work as not quite
human. Such images allow offenders to fuel their existing as a good
reason with the belief that their offenses are less problematic
because the victim is not really a fellow human being. Since the
offender sees himself as more human and superior, therefore more
valuable, he sees nothing wrong with exploiting the less valued human
being to meet his own needs. To escape the exploitation the victim
must use Shegad status clan links that can be shifted and rediscovered
according to the situation at hand.
I
hear you my borthers and sisters
Dear fellow Somalis,
I am writing this to let you know how much I appreciate this website
midgaan.com. It has given me the chance to understand the pain and the
suffering that certain Somalis have been going through because of
their tribe. Somalis have been victimizing and destroying each other
for the past 15 years, but Midgaan people have been the real victims
for the past1500 hundred years. As a child I remember my best friends
were Midgaan and the entire village that we lived looked down on them,
except my mother. My mom and I used to go over their house eat with
them, most of the time I used hang around with my Midgaan friends and
I remember I used to call their mother Eedo Haliimo.
ASYLUM
- Somalia
- STORY
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