Kanaks
Kanak (French spelling until 1984: Canaque) are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific. According to the 2019 census, they make up 41.2% of the total population with around 112,000 people.Though Melanesian settlement is recorded on Grande Terre's Presqu'île de Foué as far back as the Lapita culture, the origin of Kanak people is unclear. Ethnographic research has shown that Polynesian seafarers have intermarried with the Kanaks over the centuries. The Kanaks refer to the European inhabitants of New Caledonia as Caldoches. New Caledonia was annexed to France in 1853, and …
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Amnesty International · 17 May 2024 English
Responding to ongoing unrest in the non-self-governing French territory of Kanaky New Caledonia after the French Parliament adopted a bill changing the territory’s voting rules, Amnesty International’s Pacific Researcher Kate …
the disproportionate impact the pandemic had on Kanaks. The Nouméa Accord ensures that until the vote …
MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 24 April 2024 English
The second period begins with Not all the Spaniards were indifferent to the way the Indians were treate the 19th century and extends to the present. [...] of smallpox, reportedly …
edition) - 'discrimination officially • No. 71 The Kanaks of New Caledonia - 'well presented '". outlawed …
MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 18 April 2024 English
Professor Ed Garcia of the this war of attrition is to cease, the Christian majority Department of Political Science, University of the must allow for the development of Lumad and …
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MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 18 April 2024 English
At the same time, 'intergroup' behaviour contribute, in their turn, to the as the political and social changes which recently occurred present and the future of the r~lations between the …
lrian The Falashas Fiji Indian South Africans The Kanaks of New Caledonia Inequalities in Zimbabwe The Maori …
MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English
Governments shall take measures, in cooperation with the peoples Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the concerned, to protect and preserve the environment of the territories Human …
Garcia: A Contrast to the Falklands ASIA FijiThe Kanaks of New Caledonia The Adivasis of Bangladesh The …
MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English
Most the Sandinistas by a segment of the Miskito people; the govern Mestizos in the eastern area are small farmers and ranchers or ment’s decision to relocate Miskito villages from …
. remains as prevalent as ever’18. • No.71 The Kanaks of New Caledonia — ‘well presented’19. • No.27 …
MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English
No disadvantage shall result for any person belonging to a minority as the of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the consequence of the exercise or non-exercise …
Canada in Crisis Fiji Haitian Refugees in the US The Kanaks of New Caledonia Inuit (Eskimos) of Canada The …
MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English
Indeed, the establishment of Israel, that State’s conduct and the response of the Peace Settlement in Eastern Europe at the end of the First World Arab world and the Palestinians, …
(Revised 1982 edition) — ‘discrimination • No.71 The Kanaks of New Caledonia — well presented’19. officially …
MSGSEC: Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat · 2024 English
Prepare assessment of the various capacity needs of kanaks in the area of economy, education, health, judiciary … Outcomes x 6. Address capacity needs of the FLNKS Kanaks 1. To assist with capacity needs of the people …
LARJE: Laboratory of Legal and Economic Research (LARJE) · 2024 French
alarmer exagérément les indépendantistes et les Kanaks quant à une possible marginalisation électorale …
