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Twenty years ago, Indigenous leaders and other experts went to Rotterdam to
accuse their governments of racism, ethnocide and genocide. In November, 1980,
they presented their cases to an international jury at the IV Russell Tribunal
on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas. The Tribunal asserted its moral
right "to demand that governments and international organisations comply
with the accepted norms relating to human rights in general as well as to the
specific rights of the Native Peoples of the Americas."
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It is widely accepted that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights must be
considered as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.
However, Indigenous peoples are not recognised as peoples. Their sovereign
nations have never been invited to sit alongside the other nation states of the
world in international decision making bodies.
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 - Dalee
Sambo Dorough,
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Indian Law Resource
Center
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 - Kelly McBride,
OAS, Senior Specialist, Unit for the Promotion of Democracy
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Armand McKenzie, Innu Council of Nitassinan; Cara Currie,
Cree, International Organisation of Indigenous
Resource Development; Carlos Ayala, OAS, Special Rapporteur
for Indigenous Peoples Rights, Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights
International Indigenous
Rights in the New Millennium", a Joint Panel Discussion hosted by the
National Congress of American Indians and the Assembly of First Nations, 1999"
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