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United Nations Envoy Condemns Australian Govt’s Aboriginal “Intervention”

Professor Anaya also criticised compulsory land takeovers proceeded without consent,

UN envoy demands changes to ‘racist’ intervention, Sydney Morning Herald, YUKO NARUSHIMA , February 25, 2010

THE government must purge the Northern Territory intervention of racist measures that stigmatise indigenous people, a United Nations representative says.The UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, James Anaya, blasted Australia for breaching its international human rights obligations by imposing welfare restrictions and alcohol and pornography bans that targeted only Aboriginal communities.”These measures involve racial discrimination,” Professor Anaya said in a report handed to government. ”The differential treatment of indigenous peoples in the Northern Territory involves impairment of the enjoyment of various human rights.”……………….Professor Anaya also criticised compulsory land takeovers proceeded without consent, consultation or compensation, and the bright green BasicsCard indigenous people had to produce to use money in shops was humiliating, he said.

UN envoy demands changes to ‘racist’ NT intervention

February 25, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, radioactive, uranium