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Earn local/ foreign
currency from the comforts of home or anywhere
in the world as a :Nyan-ko-pong: Global Sovereign Maroon
Ambassador in the
preservation of our tribal status acknowledged
globally as indigenous like the people before
conquest, colonization or the establishment of
state boundaries and also in accordance to C169
- Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
[No. 169]
mainly,
:Article.20.
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*which states ~
"1.
Governments shall, within the framework of
national laws and regulations, and in
co-operation with the peoples concerned, adopt
special measures to ensure the effective
protection with regard to recruitment and
conditions of employment of workers belonging to
these peoples, to the extent that they are not
effectively protected by laws applicable to
workers in general."
2.
Governments shall do everything possible to
prevent any discrimination between workers
belonging to the peoples concerned and other
workers, in particular as regards:
(a)
admission to employment, including skilled
employment, as well as measures for promotion
and advancement;
(b)
"equal
remuneration for work of equal value;"
3.
The measures taken shall include measures to
ensure:
(a)
that workers belonging to the peoples concerned,
including seasonal, casual and migrant workers
in agricultural and other employment, as well as
those employed by labour contractors, enjoy the
protection afforded by national law and practice
to other such workers in the same sectors, and
that they are fully informed of their rights
under labour legislation and of the means of
redress available to them;
(b)
that workers belonging to these peoples are not
subjected to working conditions hazardous to
their health, in particular through exposure to
pesticides or other toxic substances;
(c)
that workers belonging to these peoples are not
subjected to coercive recruitment systems,
including bonded labour and other forms of debt
servitude;
(d)
that workers belonging to these peoples enjoy
equal opportunities and equal treatment in
employment for men and women, and protection
from sexual harassment.
:Article.26.
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"Measures shall be taken to ensure that members
of the peoples concerned have the opportunity to
acquire education at all levels on at least an
equal footing with the rest of the national
community."
:Article.27.
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"1.
Education programmes and services for the
peoples concerned shall be developed and
implemented in co-operation with them to address
their special needs, and shall incorporate their
histories, their knowledge and technologies,
their value systems and their further social,
economic and cultural aspirations."
2.
The competent authority shall ensure the
training of members of these peoples and their
involvement in the formulation and
implementation of education programmes, with a
view to the progressive transfer of
responsibility for the conduct of these
programmes to these peoples as appropriate.
3.
In addition, governments shall recognise the
right of these peoples to establish their own
educational institutions and facilities,
provided that such institutions meet minimum
standards established by the competent authority
in consultation with these peoples. Appropriate
resources shall be provided for this purpose."
:Article.30.
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"1.
Governments shall adopt measures appropriate to
the traditions and cultures of the peoples
concerned, to make known to them their rights
and duties, especially in regard to labour,
economic opportunities, education and health
matters, social welfare and their rights
deriving from this Convention."
2.
If necessary, this shall be done by means of
written translations and through the use of mass
communications in the languages of these
peoples."
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