Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit - Indigenous Rights

October 15th

Welcome

10.00 Dr Helena Whall, Project Officer, Indigenous Rights in the Commonwealth Project, CPSU.

Background to the Indigenous Rights in the Commonwealth Project

10.30 Introductions by participants

11.00-11.30 ~ Coffee ~

11.30 Strategy for the Meeting

Indigenous Rights in the South Pacific

Chair: Shaista Shameem, Director, Fiji Human Rights Commission, Suva.

12.00 Mrs Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, Director, Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC)

The work of the PCRC with Indigenous Peoples in the South Pacific

12.30 Mr. Jimmy Nuanaa, Desk Officer, PCRC

Reflections on the Indigenous Peoples Conference on the UN Draft Declaration, organised by the PCRC, Fiji, 1996

1.00 Discussion

1.30-2.30 ~ Lunch ~

Fiji Islands

Chair: Paul Havemann, Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand

2.30 Dr Shaista Shameem, Director, Fiji Human Rights Commission, Suva.

Equality and Indigenous Rights: Contradiction, Complementarity or Something In Between? International and Domestic Law Revisited

3.00 Jone Dakuvula, Programme Director for Human Rights, Citizen's Constitutional Forum, Suva.

Protecting Fijian Interests in a Democratic Fiji

3.30 Discussion

4.00-4.30 ~Tea~

Papua New Guinea

Chair: Les Malezer, Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA), and Secretary of Commonwealth Association of Indigenous Peoples (CAIP).

4.30 Karibae John Kawowo, Doboin Peoples' Foundation, and Pacific Coordinator, International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests, UK.

Customary Land Tenure and the Market Economy in Papua New Guinea

5.00 Carol Kidu, MP, National Parliament, PNG and Sale Homoka, Coordinator, National Capital District Commission, PNG.

Towards a Sustainable Development for Motu Koita Landowners in the National Capital of Papua New Guinea

5.30-6.00 Discussion

October 16th

Australia

Chair: Carol Kidu, National Parliament, PNG

9.30 Les Malezer, Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA), and Secretary of Commonwealth Association of Indigenous Peoples (CAIP).

A History of Indigenous Rights in Australia

10.00 Nicky Jones, Australian Research Consultant, Indigenous Rights in the Commonwealth Project, CPSU.

The Economic, Social and Cultural rights of Indigenous peoples in Australia

10.30 Discussion

10.30-11.00 ~ Coffee ~

New Zealand

Chair: Mrs Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, Director, Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC).

11.00 Matiu Dickson, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Waikato, NZ.

Maori Development in a Global Society - Options for Constitutional Change

11.30 Leah Whiu, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Waikato, NZ.

Journeys of Contradiction and Liberation: One Indigenous Woman's Story

12.00 Paul Havemann, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Waikato, NZ.