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We welcome you to the Roll Call of Nations
section of Dialogue Between Nations.
The menu stones will lead you to knowledge resources where you will be
able to gain insight into the lives of individuals "whose existence
must not be admitted". Here you will learn more about these
international actors, their landscapes, their Nations, their issues,
and their actions.
Knowledge Building
Roll Call of Nations is a knowledge base where you will be able to
read or listen to the voices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous
individuals who appear in pre-recorded dialogues, speeches and text,
documented over the past fifteen years at conferences and
international gatherings on several continents.
This section reflects the situation of Indigenous Peoples, as referred
to in the title of the
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (United Nations
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental
freedoms of indigenous peoples).
Giichi Nomura
In the eyes of the government we were a people whose existence
must not be admitted. However, you need not worry. I am most
definitely not a ghost. I am standing firmly before you."
~ Giichi Nomura, Former Executive
Director of Utari Kyokai (Ainu Association of Hokkaido), addressing
the United Nations General Assembly, 10 December 1992, at the
inauguration ceremonies for the United Nations International Year of
the Worlds Indigenous People
Statement of Rodolfo Stavenhagen
former UN Special Rapporteur
on the Rights of Indigenous People, on the official recognition
of the Ainu as an indigenous people of Japan
December 30, 2008
The International Movement Against All Forms of
Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)
This is who I am
I have a name
This is where I
live
This is my world, this is my situation
This is my language
I speak
These are my
stories
I have something to say
Dialogues
I want to share my experience with you
These are my issues
These are my issues, rights and freedoms
Actions
This is what is being done in response to my situation |
