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following several days of rain along the dempster highway last september, i noticed a wonderful spicy aroma in the tundra air, one i could not place until after arriving in inuvik
while waiting for a table at a tiny restaurant my wife and i were offered tea from a blackened pot that was sitting beside a warm wood fire...the tea of course, tasted just the same as the spicy air i had noticed earlier
searching for audio to accompany the video i stumbled across elder bertha skye talking about labrador tea, she is a respected and knowledgeable member of the cree nation but mostly i think she is a sweetheart
Brian, one of the expedition's young snow machine drivers, stands watch over our floe edge activities. He's holding a harpoon, used to test the strength of the ice (the projectile point is detached and stored elsewhere).
One hard tap without breaking through indicates it's safe for a person on foot to traverse the frozen sea. Two hards taps and no break, it will hold a snow machine. Three hard taps, a snow machine and a komatik will not sink. At least that is what I remember being told - probably best to defer directly to the guide's advice on the scene, not my recollection!
Brian also has a vintage .303 Lee-Enfield rifle slung over his back. The area was criss-crossed with Polar Bear tracks, so as a precaution guns were openly deployed when we were away from the camp or komatiks.
The chance to interact with the local guides and discuss ice conditions, the weather, and the relative merits of different brands of snow machine was a nice part of the trip.
When I was a child, my Grandma taught me to cook rice, among other things. She always told me to rinse it seven times. So, each time I prepare this food, I think of her, dearly beloved woman with a marvelous sense of humor.
Today I opted to wash the rice in the microwave-safe popcorn carafe, its globe-shape preventing the rice from escaping down the drain.
Perhaps others, like me, have routines which bring to mind those who taught us. It was not my mother who taught me, but her mother. A widow with nine grown children, lived with different children when she could help.....and, in our case, with Mother working, we enjoyed her presence during our younger years.
I was not an apt pupil, but I am fond of cooking rice. I'd much rather be reading a book, or outdoors raking leaves, than stuck indoors with such repetitive chores as meal preparation. I've been known to have eggs boiling on the electric range to explode to the ceiling and the aluminum pan melt into the coils of the drip pan, while I sat one wall away reading, totally engrossed. Or beans turn into charcoal briquettes while I was happily rinsing salt spray off the exterior of the boat which I captained.....thankfully the sleeping crew were not affected by the boat full of smoke which billowed out the hatch when I recollected those beans!
I cook for survival, not for pleasure. And these days, I cook for my animals primarily.......that's how I know I am a member of the Older Generation. Instead of cooking, my preference was for Lillian Gilbreth's MANAGEMENT IN THE HOME, which was published in 1954 and was my textbook for my chores when I married in the late 1950s.
"Save the girl child campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC"
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict ( Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ). We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these women’s deaths; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism".The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. The Census Report of 2001 reveals a highly skewed child sex ratio (0-6 year-olds), that fell from 945 females per 1,000 males in 1991 to an all-time low of 927 in 2001. The ratio even dropped further to 800:1,000 in some specific parts of the country. Additional data from the India’s birth and death registration service indicates that the figures have further fallen to fewer than 900 females per 1,000 men over the last few years.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, it is only women’s groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008.
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Say no to sex selection and female foeticide!
Say no to dowry and violence against women!!
Say yes to Women’s Resistance, Education and Empowerment!!!
Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.
It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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The Arctic (Kugluktuk, Nunavut) in late September, 2010, as seen from the Cornation Gulf on the Beaufort Sea.
In the background you can just make out the silhouette of the yearly barge, which is docked in the gulf after a day spent offloading supplies to this Arctic community.
"Save the girl child campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC"
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict ( Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ). We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these women’s deaths; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism".The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. The Census Report of 2001 reveals a highly skewed child sex ratio (0-6 year-olds), that fell from 945 females per 1,000 males in 1991 to an all-time low of 927 in 2001. The ratio even dropped further to 800:1,000 in some specific parts of the country. Additional data from the India’s birth and death registration service indicates that the figures have further fallen to fewer than 900 females per 1,000 men over the last few years.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, it is only women’s groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008.
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Say no to sex selection and female foeticide!
Say no to dowry and violence against women!!
Say yes to Women’s Resistance, Education and Empowerment!!!
A challenge of oral histories is that they rely on someone to tell the story in order for the history to continue. Many traditional societies are facing the problem of elders sharing their knowledge with people who aren't ready, or the prospect of that knowledge being somewhat lost.
Again, this isn't my story, but the tale of this supermarket resonates with me. Yorta Yorta people still fish here, still hunt here and it is important the the community maintains its roots. As a community they are capturing some of that knowledge, mapping it, recording it so that in time, this will still be a supermarket and people will still know how to access it.
"Our invisibility in statistics is a reflection of colonialism, racism and sexism that still persist in our States and societies. The Sustainable Development Goals framework provides a historic opportunity to build indicators sensitive to ethnic, cultural and gender differences," Tarcila Rivera, President of the International Forum of Indigenous Women. Under the SDG 2 "Zero Hunger" FAO will pilot food and nutrition security monitoring in indigenous territories in partnership with indigenous peoples and the State. Public policies appropriate to indigenous peoples will only be possible if there are information systems that account for them.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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The whole container is constructed from natural materials: birch bark, barberry, Rocky Mountain maple, and dogbane. 100% waterproof.
The oral tradition and the role that indigenous women play in their communities make them natural leaders for the exchange of knowledge. The National Coordinator of Indigenous Women of Panama (CONAMUIP) is promoting an exchange program for indigenous women from different peoples to share experiences and strengthen capacities. In 2015, CONAMUIP requested FAO’s support to train indigenous women in advocacy mechanisms in the context of food security and nutrition. The Human Rights and Food and Nutrition Security Program is a joint learning initiative based on the experiences of indigenous women, with the support of FAO and FIMI.
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ASOCIACIÓN DE CABILDOS INDÍGENAS UITOTO DEL ALTO RÍO CAQUETÁ - ASCAINCA
Located in the Department of Caquetá, municipality of Solano
Project tittle: "Cultivators of Knowledge. Strengthening the chagra as a tool for social and territorial governance and for the empowerment of women Murguía muina ”. Objectives: Strengthen the knowledge and capacities associated with the chagra as a sustainable productive system of self-knowledge through intergenerational dialogues of 48 indigenous women of the Uitoto people, developing a training cycle in each of the reservations and council. Establish chagras in each of the communities as a space for the practice and application of the acquired knowledge, as well as for the generation of food and medicine that contributes to the food security of our indigenous peoples. Make the role of indigenous women and their leadership visible through the creation of a Network of Women Chagreras and Guardianas de Semillas made up of the participating women from each of the communities. Strengthen the leadership, administrative, project management and governance capacities of 48 indigenous women of the Uitoto people.
Photo: © Visión Amazonía
SD23 Land-Based Learning Teacher Kevin Kaiser demonstrates to the group how to harvest spicen, and then how to start the rope-making process.
A performance by South African group "Black Earth" music and dance group at WIPO featured colorful ethnic clothing. It opened the South Africa exhibition, co-organized by WIPO and the Government of South Africa in May 2010.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Jean-François Arrou-Vignod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
Thsi photo exhibition features a number of photos and testimonies collected under the framework of the Leadership School of Indigenous Women in Human Rights and Food Nutrition Security, which has been implemented in six countries in Latin America and Asia, in partnership with the International Forum of Indigenous Women (FIMI). This photo exhibition was done by the Subregonial Office for Mesoamerica with the support of the Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development. The photos were done by the "Club de fotos de Panama".
©FAO / David Núñez
Indigenous women in Latin America and the Caribbean represent a heterogeneous group that faces diverse challenges and threats. The consequences of gender, ethnic and class inequality place them at the forefront of the effects of economic instability and social and environmental conflict. Many of them are forced to migrate, leaving behind their territory and their families and facing the challenge of maintaining their culture in the cities. Recognizing the diversity of the situation of indigenous women will help make public policies more effective.
©FAO / David Núñez
Given their relationship with Mother Earth, indigenous peoples are among the most affected by the effects of climate change. When they see threatened their means of living, many of them are forced to move. However, indigenous peoples - who for millennia have remained in the same territory - possess traditional knowledge and know-how to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change. This knowledge could strengthen the development of public policies to counter the effects of climate change. For indigenous peoples and indigenous women the effects of climate change are also a human rights issue, as their means and quality of life are intrinsically linked to the availability of natural resources.
©FAO / David Núñez
Comparisons of new developments and traditional knowledge to enhance resilience for climate and ecosystem changes, and promoting sustainable development of agricultural communities.
Photo by: Mohri United Nations University
"The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes" (Crown, 2011) by Scott Wallace. Dugout canoe transports members of expedition to track and protect uncontacted tribes in the Javari Valley, far western, Brazil.
The photo exhibition entitled I am a leader, woman, indigenous and producer showcases the food and nutrition security challenges faced by indigenous women from Panama, as well as their struggle to preserve their culture and food systems. It was done by the Subregonial Office for Mesoamerica with the support of the Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development and the voluntary contribution of the "Club de fotos de Panama".
©FAO / David Núñez
The Indigenous Leadership Training Program in Human Rights and Food and Nutrition Security addresses the economic empowerment of indigenous women by focusing on the exercise of rights and capacity building for leadership and participation. Promoting the individual and collective empowerment of indigenous women is part of economic empowerment.
©FAO / David Núñez
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states that indigenous peoples are entitled to their own traditional medicines and to maintaining their health practices, including the conservation of their medicinal plants, animals and minerals of critical interest. Indigenous women in Panama identified the restoration of traditional medicine and medicinal plants as critical to ensure health in their territories.
©FAO / David Núñez
Protecting seeds means to protect the future of indigenous peoples and their food sovereignty. Indigenous women have been guardians of seeds for generations. They now need technology and the creation of seed banks that will allow them to continue preserving seeds. Indigenous leaders participating in the Panamanian Human Rights and Food Security Program promote the creation of a national seed bank, which includes seeds native to all indigenous peoples in the country.
©FAO / David Núñez
More than 350 indigenous women from at least 22 countries of the Americas joined together in Guatemala City to discuss about the participation of indigenous peoples in the new agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and to debate about indigenous women empowerment, individual and collective rights, traditional knowledge and indigenous women, and climate change.
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31st ICM Triennial Congress, Toronto, 18-22 June 2017. Representing the CBHSSJB at this event were Laura Bearskin, Nishiyuu Advisor. Clara Cooper, PPRO Nishiiyuu, Hilda Shem, Human Resources Recruiting Agent and Eleanor Gull, Nurse Counsellor in DPSQA-Health.
More than 350 indigenous women from at least 22 countries of the Americas joined together in Guatemala City to discuss about the participation of indigenous peoples in the new agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and to debate about indigenous women empowerment, individual and collective rights, traditional knowledge and indigenous women, and climate change.
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More than 350 indigenous women from at least 22 countries of the Americas joined together in Guatemala City to discuss about the participation of indigenous peoples in the new agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and to debate about indigenous women empowerment, individual and collective rights, traditional knowledge and indigenous women, and climate change.
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More than 350 indigenous women from at least 22 countries of the Americas joined together in Guatemala City to discuss about the participation of indigenous peoples in the new agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and to debate about indigenous women empowerment, individual and collective rights, traditional knowledge and indigenous women, and climate change.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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FAO Indigenous Peoples’s team shared its joint work with indigenous peoples in the celebration of their cultures and traditional food systems in Meghalaya, North East India.
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