...Claire Charters; Tracey Whare Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Carving at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds SIDS1 / JESSICA SPENGLER Carving at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. / SIDS1 / JESSICA SPENGLER British Captain James Cook first arrived in New Zealand in 1769 SIDS1...

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... of the author and not of any agency of the U .S. government. Anarchy and Order in the New Age of Prevention Thomas Ai. Nichols And I put myself in the position of com­ If we are in fact reaching the end of an ing before you and having someone like era...

... beliefs. Compiled by Annika Mukherjee Sources: “Maternal mortality in Yunnan, China,” Li et al; “A prospective key informant surveillance system to measure maternal mortality,” Barnett et al; “Indigenous Birth Outcomes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States,” Smylie et al...

... determining economic, social, and cultural programs and structures.” While the demands of Indigenous peoples were encountering aggressive pushback from various states—particularly Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (known as CANZUS)—I was able to meet with Australian government...

... hundred forty three countries voted to approve. Though Australia ended up ratifying the declaration two years later, it joined Canada, New Zealand, and the United States in voting against it at the time. Their vote hardly came as a surprise. The relationship of these countries with their own native people...

..., and now the trend is spreading across the globe. Ecuador enshrined the rights of nature in its national constitution in 2008. Bolivia passed its Law of the Rights of Mother Earth in 2010. In New Zealand, the indigenous Tūhoe people and the central government finalized a legal settlement in 2014 that...

... Claire Charters and Tracey Whare also engage with in their essay on the flawed agreement that binds New Zealand and its Indigenous Māori community. “Native Voices” includes the perspectives of people who are leaders in their respective communities—such as Udege activist Pavel Sulyandziga, whose work...

... Australia and New Zealand, to accept citizens from the Kiribati islands as permanent refugees. (Formal refugee status is generally reserved for those fleeing persecution, not an environmental crisis.) New Zealand and Australia have offered a number of special programs that qualify Kiribati citizens with...

... tensions that continue to shape the Indigenous experience. Today, Indigenous people in the United States—like our relatives in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—are demographically urban. Yet our cultural identities and political struggles remain predominantly rural and tribal. This paradox has persisted...

... soldiers were killed in the months following the landing of British, Australian, New Zealander, and French troops on April 25, 1915. This attempt to force the Straits and take Ottoman Turkey out of the war proved both a monumental Allied failure and the making of Mustafa Kemal, the future Kemal...

... decades since, purchases of guns, vehicles, and munitions have tallied up to $4.3 billion. Police in only a handful of jurisdictions (including Britain, Ireland, Norway, Iceland, and New Zealand) currently operate unarmed by default. In the rest of the world, the possibility of deadly force comes with the...

..., Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and all European countries except Belarus. In most countries, women now take part in the workforce on increasingly equal terms. Marriage, once an extension of patriarchy, has itself been democratized in most democracies, giving women equal authority in the...

... Association. Calling the practice “messy” and “difficult,” ANZ Royal Bank CEO Stephen Higgins says the current method for redistributing land is not transparent enough for ANZ Royal, a joint Australian, New Zealand, and Cambodian venture. “We are very wary of touching land concessions,” he says. “There’s a...

... data in real time, helping Kenyans know which neighborhoods to avoid and if their family members were in danger. The organization has gone on to adapt the technology for disasters in Haiti, New Zealand, the Balkans, and Libya. Projects like Ushahidi began attracting attention as a new paradigm in...

... Pacific Ocean—Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam—most pointedly excludes China. Shrewdly, China in turn has assembled its own Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which is less a trade vehicle but more directly an...

... make very clear that with the aid of its allies—Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—the NSA has developed a globe-spanning surveillance infrastructure of remarkable scale and scope. Not surprisingly, the NSA has targeted countries regarded as “unfriendly” to American interests, such as...

... for the systematic and progressive ef­ Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, and South forts to implement Article VI.” The article Africa— which negotiated the disarmament contains the promise to engage in negotia­ provisions with the nuclear-weapon states. tions leading to nuclear disarmament. The...

... States and other places abroad where they sell. During the embargo, dairy producers in New Zealand—nearly 8,000 miles from Havana—have profited by selling powdered milk to Cubans. A pact similar to the tpp is also being negotiated across the atlantic with the european union—the transatlantic trade...