Chief Abel Bosum, Indigenous Peoples' Rights to the apartheid regime in South africa, resulting in The goalto remove the indigenouspeoples from the international human rights law that we accept today http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/122.html
Extractions: Documents menu We like to think of the UN as a world government that is responsible for a kind of universal sovereignty laws that transcend the jurisdictions of individual States, or perhaps, law that cannot be entrusted to the single responsibility of individual States. In fact, if we examine the history of the UN, it is obvious that it was founded to establish and enforce a higher standard of ethical and moral behavior than individual States may practice. We all know that the establishment of the UN in San Francisco directly at the end of the Second World War, was in reaction to the horrors of the Nazi regime. The founding principle of the UN is that States do not have ultimate sovereignty with regard to the basic human rights and fundamental freedoms of their inhabitants; that this ultimate sovereignty is surrendered to the world body, and that although each State retains the responsibility to uphold and enforce human rights law, all States are subject to international oversight in this regard, and if necessary, international intervention. The speeches that were made at the founding of the UN note that the need for the world to act in solidarity against Hitler's Germany was this same principle of world solidarity that was applied to the apartheid regime in South Africa, resulting in the very positive developments that have occurred there recently. Of course there was no UN when Columbus landed in the so-called
- Global Policy Forum - Globalization indigenous peoples Summit on Sustainable Development KhoiSan Territory Kimberley,South africa, 20-23 August 2002. we, the indigenous peoples, walk to the http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/2002/0919kim.htm
Extractions: International Indigenous Peoples Summit on Sustainable Development Khoi-San Territory Kimberley, South Africa, 20-23 August 2002 We, the Indigenous Peoples, walk to the future in the footprints of our ancestors (Kari-Oca Declaration, Brazil, 30 May 1992) We the Indigenous Peoples of the World assembled here reaffirm the Kari-Oca Declaration and the Indigenous Peoples Earth Charter. We again reaffirm our previous declarations on human and environmental sustainability.* Since 1992 the ecosystems of the earth have been compounding in change. We are in crisis. We are in an accelerating spiral of climate change that will not abide unsustainable greed. Today we reaffirm our relationship to Mother Earth and our responsibility to coming generations to uphold peace, equity and justice. We continue to pursue the commitments made at Earth Summit as reflected in this political declaration and the accompanying plan of action. The commitments which were made to Indigenous Peoples in Agenda 21, including our full and effective participation, have not been implemented due to the lack of political will. As peoples, we reaffirm our rights to self-determination and to own, control and manage our ancestral lands and territories, waters and other resources. Our lands and territories are at the core of our existence we are the land and the land is us; we have a distinct spiritual and material relationship with our lands and territories and they are inextricably linked to our survival and to the preservation and further development of our knowledge systems and cultures, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem management.
Biowatch SA - Johannesburg Declaration the role of local communities, indigenous peoples, farmers and And we pledge to exchangeour seeds of Declaration, made KwaZulu Natal, South africa in March http://www.biowatch.org.za/jhbdecl.htm
Rainforest Action Network: Kids' Corner - Glossary and the shrinking rainforest, other groups, especially in Indonesia and africa,are now Q Why should we care about the fate of indigenous peoples? http://www.ran.org/kids_action/s07_indigenous.html
Extractions: Printer-friendly version A: Rainforests are bursting with life. Not only do millions of species of plants and animals live in rainforests, but people also call the rainforest their home. In fact, indigenous, or native, peoples have lived in rainforests for many thousands of years. Early accounts of these people by European explorers indicate a far denser population lived in the forest than today. Many of these original peoples, such as the Caribs (after whom the Caribbean Sea is named) have disappeared completely. Others are only scattered remnants of what they once were. However thousands of distinct ethnic groups with their own distinctive language and culture remain today in tropical rainforests around the world. A: Although some indigenous people live much as we do, others still live much as did their ancestors thousands of years before them. These communities organize their daily lives differently than our culture. Their food, medicines and clothing come primarily from the forest. Q: Do the children go to school?
President's Message South africa, who well remembered meeting Inuit in Iqaluit some years ago. we toldhim that his struggle resonated with Inuit and indigenous peoples everywhere http://www.inuitcircumpolar.com/President_s_message/president_s_message.html
Extractions: E-mail us at: icc@magma.ca Ms. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, President, Inuit Circumpolar Conference (Canada) and Vice-President, Inuit Circumpolar Conference "Globalization" is the watchword of the new millennium. As I travel to capitals around the world, many people I meet talk about globalization. They are trying to understand what it means generally, and what it means for them. At the broadest level, globalization illustrates that everything is connected to and affected by everything else. Certainly we feel this increasingly in the Arctic, a region no longer isolated from the rest of the globe. How should Inuit react to and take advantage of worldwide economic liberalization, a key component of globalization? Can we ensure rigorous protection of our natural environment and enhance our culture and way of life as economic trading rules evolve? Might these changes be at odds with portions of the constitutionally enshrined rights in our land-claim agreements? Whatever the answers to these important questions, it is clear that we need to better understand the impact on our lives of changing international rules and to be more active ourselves in international processes.
Expo Times africa, It is to inner africa we must look that which became majestic in africaEgypt. In human dignity and the collective dignity of indigenous peoples. http://www.expotimes.net/books/battiste.htm
Extractions: BACK ISSUES BOOK REPORT TITLE: RECLAIMING INDIGENOUS VO ICES AND VISION EDITOR: MARIE BATTISTE PUBLISHER: UBC PRESS, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada. 2000 PAGES: 295 PRICE: $29.95 REVIEWER: KOFI AKOSAH-SARPONG Reclaiming Indigenous Voices and Vision What all these chapters and parts say is that indigenous knowledge, made thousands of years ago through observations of nature and other elements, including oral transmissions, is inextricable and very important part for indigenous educators and scholars. The Supreme Court of Canada, among the growing such developments, has made it legal that the legal profession, in Delgamuukw v.
Dialogue Between Nations -- Kimberley Declaration Kimberley, South africa, 2023 August 2002 South african indigenous Hosts, Prescilladewet, Sarah James - Gwichin Nation we, the indigenous peoples, walk to http://www.dialoguebetweennations.com/IR/english/KariOcaKimberley/KimberleyDecla
Extractions: Today we reaffirm our relationship to Mother Earth and our responsibility to coming generations to uphold peace, equity and justice. We continue to pursue the commitments made at Earth Summit as reflected in this political declaration and the accompanying plan of action. The commitments which were made to Indigenous Peoples in Agenda 21, including our full and effective participation, have not been implemented due to the lack of political will. As peoples, we reaffirm our rights to self-determination and to own, control and manage our ancestral lands and territories, waters and other resources. Our lands and territories are at the core of our existence - we are the land and the land is us; we have a distinct spiritual and material relationship with our lands and territories and they are inextricably linked to our survival and to the preservation and further development of our knowledge systems and cultures, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem management.
Dialogue Between Nations -- World Conference Against Racism forum, or email us and we will post AND indigenous peoples ROUNDTABLE ON indigenouspeoples ISSUES ORGANZED 12.00 Room 7, Durban Exhibition Centre South africa http://www.dialoguebetweennations.com/dbnetwork/english/racismintro_splash.htm
Extractions: Kari-Oca Declaration, Brazil, 30 May 1992 We the Indigenous Peoples of the World assembled here reaffirm the Kari-Oca Declaration and the Indigenous Peoples' Earth Charter. We again reaffirm our previous declarations on human and environmental sustainability.* Since 1992 the ecosystems of the earth have been compounding in change. We are in crisis. We are in an accelerating spiral of climate change that will not abide unsustainable greed. Today we reaffirm our relationship to Mother Earth and our responsibility to coming generations to uphold peace, equity and justice. We continue to pursue the committments made at Earth Summit as reflected in this political declaration and the accompanying plan of action. The commitments which were made to Indigenous Peoples in Agenda 21, including our full and effective participation, have not been implemented due to the lack of political will. As peoples, we reaffirm our rights to self-determination and to own, control and manage our ancestral lands and territories, waters and other resources. Our lands and territories are at the core of our existence - we are the land and the land is us; we have a distinct spiritual and material relationship with our lands and territories and they are inextricably linked to our survival and to the preservation and further development of our knowledge systems and cultures, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem management.
Extractions: Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo-Brazzaville Congo-Kinshasa Côte d'Ivoire Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tomé and Principé Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe Posted to the web November 25, 2002 New dam-building, mining and road-development schemes should only get the green light after thorough assessments of their impacts on the lives and cultures of indigenous peoples, the head of the United Nations environment arm said here. Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP, said new construction and development projects were no longer allowed without an evaluation of their environmental impacts. He said the same, legally-binding, standards should be applied to their impact on the life-styles and cultures of indigenous peoples.
[Home] [Contact] [About Us] [Search ] Language English Español 16 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and africa. WTO, including farmers andrural peoples, indigenous peoples and those we see this process as part of a http://www.rio10.dk/index.php?a=show&doc_id=1320
South African Museum - Archaeology In Southern Africa In southern africa, we can trace our history from the to build up the best picturewe can. 1488 onwards and the effects of colonization on indigenous peoples. http://www.museums.org.za/sam/resource/arch/archaeol.htm
Extractions: Iziko Museums of Cape Town South African Museum home : resources online archaeology/anthropology : Search In southern Africa, we can trace our history from the very beginnings of people, who lived over two million years ago , through Stone Age hunters and gatherers, culminating in the San hunter-gatherers (`Bushmen'), Khoikhoi hunter-gatherer-herders (`Hottentots') and Iron Age Bantu-speaking farmers and herders (`black' people) who have inhabited this the subcontinent for millennia. Finally, we can also trace the first visits of European explorers, their colonization of the country and its effects on the people who were already there. How do we find out what we think we know about past people? Luckily, like us, past people left the remains of their food and other discarded items in rubbish dumps near where they lived. These include waste from making tools and equipment, food and fires for cooking and warmth. They were probably also forgetful, lost tools, equipment and ornaments or simply discarded them if they were worn out or not required at the next place they chose to move to. These provide the pieces of the puzzle that archaeologists use to fit together a picture of how they think past people lived. Archaeological puzzles always have missing pieces, however, because many of the materials used disintegrate and disappear over time or, like some social and cultural activities, leave little or no tangible or physical evidence. This means that we cannot reconstruct a complete picture of peoples' activities and social systems. What we have to do is to use all the clues we can find to help us to understand the meaning of what is preserved in order to build up the best picture we can. Sometimes snippets of information from a number of old living areas (sites) can be combined to give a more-detailed picture.
No Leading Role For Japan At U.N. Summit we support other groups calling for corporate accountability and strict The chiefsand elders from indigenous peoples throughout africa said they http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0827_020827_summit3.html
Extractions: In addition, the focus of the U.N. summit, which opened Monday, has shifted from the environment to development, further reducing the significance of Japan's initiatives, the officials said. The government has long considered the international conference a golden opportunity to show the world its efforts to implement the 1997 Kyoto Protocol treaty, which aims to curb global warming. However, because the U.S. government withdrew from the pact and some nations including Russia have yet to ratify it, it could not be put into effect before the summit.
Bernard Van Leer Foundation - Annual Report primarily in Asia, Latin America, and africa. represent their interests; and we activelycontribute the international dialogue about indigenous peoples with a http://www.bernardvanleer.org/page.asp?PiD=79
What Indigenous Peoples Can Teach The World to be held in Durban, South africa, Aug 31 up as respect for our existence as peoples,recognition of we indigenous people will not accept having these claims http://www.tierramerica.net/2001/0812/igrandesplumas.shtml
Extractions: The suggestions, proposals, and warnings of indigenous peoples about the irreversible forms of damage caused by the current model of development are ignored, even by the World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance. MEXICO CITY - International Day of the Indigenous People, August 9, has provided a much-needed occasion for the indigenous peoples to present their opinions and positions and to invite the international community to reflect on the main processes now underway throughout the world that directly or indirectly affect our peoples, as well as the rest of humanity. It is time to sit down together and reflect seriously on what sort of world we would like to leave to our children. Globalization cannot continue to be the globalization of finance and speculation, drug trafficking, poverty and marginalization, the extermination of nature, and the destruction of hope for the planet.
Leaders Seek An End To Racist Environmental Practice Asians, Blacks, Latinos, and indigenous peoples from Nigeria Ecuador, Dominica,Australia, South africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe In light of what we observed in http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/groundworkpress.htm
Extractions: seek an end to racist environmental practices in light of Sapref's suspected oil leak August 29, 2001 (Durban, South Africa) - In response to news of the Shell and BP (Sapref's) suspected oil leak in South Durban, the third in recent months, a multi-racial international delegation of environmental justice activists, who are in town for the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), linked arms with local South Africans fighting environmental racism. This past weekend, a diverse group of over 100 people participated in a two-day gathering where Asians, Blacks, Latinos, and Indigenous Peoples from Nigeria, Ecuador, Dominica, Australia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Panama, Canada, and the United States testified on cases of environmental racism in community and workplace settings and toured South Durban's industrial-residential neighborhoods. Speaking to the role of the United States in perpetuating environmental racism, Professor Robert Bullard stated, "In light of what we observed in South Durban and what we know to be true in US and other countries, it is criminal and an abomination that the US government persists in publicly dodging environmental racism. If the US fails to send a delegation to the World Conference Against Racism it sends a message to the world community that it simply does not care about a vast majority of its own population." Bullard is author of Confronting Environmental Racism and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.
TVE's LIFE on Human Rights has a programme on indigenous peoples. to the rock paintings all overSouth africa as evidence we lived off the melons and the tree berries or http://www.tve.org/life/archive/life17main.html
Extractions: The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park has now been officially combined with the Botswana Gemsbok National Park to form the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park , launched in May 2000 as the first transfrontier park in Africa, with a total land area of 38,000 square km. See examples of San Bushman rock paintings Human Rights Web contains many links to human rights organizations, as does Minority Rights Group International Survival International is the only worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples through public campaigns. Its latest newsletter contains an interesting article on the Bushmen of Botswana, 'Diamonds for Land'
WRM Bulletin Nº 62 / September 2002 clearer to forest activists why we consider protecting indigenous peoples Guardiansof the Forests. can be easily identified throughout africa, Asia, Oceania http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/62/viewpoint.html
Extractions: Focused on Indigenous Peoples OUR VIEWPOINT LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS AFRICA GENERAL top THE FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Indigenous peoples are the guardians of the forests. No-one is more interested than they are in ensuring the conservation of forests which are their homes, an integral part of their culture and provide for their livelihoods. All the previous WRM bulletins have reflected many of their struggles to protect the forests, but we have now decided to focus the entire bulletin on indigenous peoples, in order to both highlight the problems they confront and the solutions they are implementing to ensure the recognition of their rights as a first though crucial step to seriously address the ongoing forest crisis. The present bulletin has been produced in close collaboration with the Forest Peoples Programme which together with Fern acts as the WRM Northern Office and with other people who are either members of indigenous peoples organizations or who support the rights of indigenous peoples. Regardless of the authorship of each article, they all reflect the hopes and struggles of the indigenous peoples themselves, as well as the importance of external collaboration for achieving their aims. We hope that this bulletin will help to encourage more individuals and organizations concerned with forest conservation to understand the central role played by indigenous peoples in this respect and thereby to increase support for their right to continue being the guardians of the forests.
