Panel discussion: Indigenous rights and a sustainable future for homelands (Amnesty HRC 2011)

A panel discussion on Indigenous Peoples' rights and a sustainable future for homelands. The panel analyses the abandonment of Aboriginal communities on ancestral land in the Northern Territory, and the government's policy of effectively forcing people into larger towns and cities.

Speakers include Professor Jon Altman (ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research), Mrs Yanaymul Mununggurr (CEO of the Laynhapuy Homelands Association), Dr Sean Kerins (Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research), Mr Jack Green (Senior Cultural Advisor, Waanyi/Gawara Ranger Program) and Andrew Erueti (Advisor on Indigenous Rights to the International Secretariat of Amnesty International). Moderated by Kyle Turner.

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Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million people working to defend human rights and dignity. In 2011 we celebrated our 50th year. On 6 -- 8 October 2011, we drew on that fifty years of experience to hold our biggest ever Human Rights Conference at Royal on the Park in Brisbane, Queensland.

We assembled an impressive array of human rights defenders, experts and commentators to lead a series of lectures, discussions and workshops over three days -- all focused around the conference theme of 'Change the World'.

Find out more by visiting http://www.amnesty.org.au/

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• Amnesty
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Conference
• Human Rights
• Indigenous rights
• Aboriginal rights
• homelands
• land rights
• Northern Territory
• Jon Altman
• Yanaymul Mununggurr
• Jack Green
• Sean Kerins
• Andrew Erueti
• Kyle Turner