WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012
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MEETINGS |
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9 May 2012 Economic and Social Council HR/5089 Department of Public Information News and Media Division, New York Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Eleventh Session |
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FORUM SPEAKERS SAY ‘DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY’ SHAMEFUL ROOT OF TODAY’S INDIGENOUS OPPRESSION, REMNANTS STILL EVIDENT IN MANY CONSTITUTIONS MUST BE REMOVED Debate on Theme Continues, with Speakers Reaffirming Need for Study on Way In Which 15th Century Doctrine Extended in Law, Policy, to Set Stage for Reversal |
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The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today again rang with strong calls on former colonial Governments to reassess their constitutional arrangements and restore the “first nation” status of native peoples, and on the Catholic Church to openly denounce the centuries-old “Doctrine of Discovery”, which many civil society representatives said was the “shameful” root of the humiliation and marginalization indigenous people still suffered today. As the Permanent Forum continued its dialogue with indigenous peoples groups and Government officials on the impact of the Doctrine — the fifteenth century Christian dogma that provided religious justification for the seizure by early explorers of native lands and resources, and which later became embedded in international law and policy — speakers broadly agreed that it was vitally important to remove the disturbing remnants of the concept still evident in the Constitutions of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as in African countries, and countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. (more) |
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SPECIAL EVENTS |
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9 May 2012 United Nations Audio Library 14:41:29.0 Floor 70 minutes
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Indigenous Women's Rights, Violence and
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OTHER MEDIA |
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VIEW YouTube 9 May 2012MAORI CAUCUS SUBMISSION TO UN PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES |
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CATHERINE DAVIS, Maori Caucus, recommended that, in recognizing the urgent imperative to remedy the profound prejudice her peoples faced, the Permanent Forum should urge the Government of New Zealand not to implement any findings from its current constitutional review process without the free, prior and informed consent of the Maori peoples. New Zealand’s human rights protections were fragile, as Parliament could routinely pass discriminatory legislation. (more) |
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Indian Country Today 9 May 2012 |
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S CAUCUS PROBES DISCOVERY DOCTRINE'S IMPACT ON WOMEN |
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – How does the brutality of a 500-plus-year-old trade agreement between competing Christian European countries impact contemporary indigenous women all over the world? Exploring that question and articulating the answer in a page-and-a-half document was the task the Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus set itself in preparation for the 11th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. (more) |
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Servindi, 9 de mayo, 2012.- El caucus indígena de latinoamérica señaló que en las dos últimas décadas del siglo pasado los poderosos del norte emprendieron una nueva colonización: la globalización neoliberal. La indígena aimara Hortencia Hidalgo Cáceres, de Chile, fue la encargada de leer ayer una declaración colectiva en la que se destacó que la globalización neoliberal representa una nueva colonización y es una continuación de la conquista. (vease) |
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Declaración de los pueblos indígenas del Abya Yala |
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XI Período de Sesiones del Foro Permanente El Abya Yala es la cuna de grandes civilizaciones que legaron al mundo valiosos conocimientos -alimentos, tecnologías, formas de organización social y política, culturas- que aún hoy causan asombro. Un proceso único y propio que fue interrumpido con la invasión europea en 1492. (vease) |
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