Advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples
August 2022
Throughout the year, Education International worked to advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples in education and beyond. Some of the highlights of our work in 2022 are featured below.
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Equity and inclusion 5 August 2022 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
On the 9th of August, Education International (EI) joins the celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples and reaffirms the human rights of Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme is The Role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and Transmission of Traditional Knowledge.
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Climate action and literacy 9 August 2022 Including Indigenous identities and ways of knowing in education and science
Charitie Ropati
Engineers and scientists are vital to meeting Sustainable Development Goals but the ecological knowledge that Indigenous people hold when we care for the land are things that are central to the existence of life.
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Equity and inclusion 10 August 2022 Indigenous educators from across Latin America come together to strengthen public education
Convened by Education International Latin America (EILA) on August 9-11, the IX Regional Meeting on Public Education and Indigenous Peoples brought together more than 150 educators from all over the region, representing indigenous peoples from Peru, Panama, Argentina, Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay who travelled many miles by air...
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Equity and inclusion 12 August 2022 Indigenous education workers call for a commitment from the region’s governments to education for their peoples
The call was made in the framework of the IX Regional Conference on Public Education and Indigenous Peoples convened by Education International Latin America. The event was attended by over 150 education workers who travelled to Asuncion, Paraguay from Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina, and Paraguay .
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 August 2022 Ending Ability Grouping to empower Māori learners in Aotearoa New Zealand
Liam Rutherford
Variously practiced as ‘ability grouping’, ‘streaming’, ‘attainment grouping’, ‘setting’, ‘banding’ or ‘tracking’, pedagogical practices that group students based on perceived ability or prior achievement are longstanding and widespread world over. Research, however, has long shown that this has negative impacts for students, especially those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, ethnic minorities,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 August 2022 Adapting to Covid-19: Removing the land from indigenous land-based education
Sydney Krill
"That’s what the elders are telling us. Go out on the land. This is a perfect time for people to show youngsters how to build a fire in the morning, how to put up a tent. It’s almost spring. If people can get their families out on the land, that’s...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 August 2022 Recovering indigenous names
Kantuta Conde
My name is Kantuta, and I am proud to have an Aymara name that identifies me and represents my community. When it rained, my grandmother told me that children who die without a name go to Tata Granizo. Next to him, children make round ice that falls from the sky...
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Equity and inclusion 4 October 2022 World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference in Education: Unions come together to advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples
The World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference in Education (WIPCE) was held this year on the traditional lands of the Kaurna Nation, the original people of the Adelaide plains, at Tarndanya, Adelaide, Australia. WIPCE is the largest and most diverse Indigenous education forum in the world. The EI delegation to the Conference...
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Equity and inclusion World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education 2022
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30 November 2022World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education 2022The World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference in Education (WIPCE) was held this year on the traditional lands of the Kaurna Nation, the original people of the Adelaide plains, at Tarndanya (place of the red kangaroo), Adelaide, Australia. WIPCE is the largest and most diverse Indigenous education forum in the world.
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Equity and inclusion 2 December 2022 #16Days | Ending the violence against Indigenous women and girls
Tesa Fiddler
The tragedy of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls must not continue to be part of the narrative of Canada. Indigenous women and girls have experienced colonial violence and genocide for hundreds of years and it must end.
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Climate action and literacy 5 December 2022 #16Days | Brazilian women fighting to protect the Amazon
Fátima da Silva
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international UN Women campaign that has been running since 1991 and which provides an opportunity to reflect on the issue of abuse suffered by women around the world. The campaign runs from 25 November to 10 December and this year...
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