http://www.choike.org a portal on Southern civil societies http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6551.html Recent years have seen an increasing appreciation of the role and importance of indigenous knowledge (IK). The knowledge of farmers and indigenous people in using and conserving biological resources is now recognised as a treasure that is currently contributing enormous value to traditional and modern medicine and to agricultural productivity, and is critical for future development or even survival of humanity. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1154.html Indigenous movements and their struggle for autonomy are a concern for dominant economic and political groups because they are a part of other social movements in Latin America that are resisting neoliberal policies and their effects on people. They are also an integral part of the broad social sectors supporting alternative proposals that would help us resolve the crisis in which the world finds itself. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1290.html The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs caused by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament to all Aborigines for laws and policies that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss". From 1910 to the early 1980s, somewhere between one in three and one in ten Aboriginal children in Australia were removed from their families under State-based forced removal policies.