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This side event will bring together Indigenous leaders, human rights experts, and civil society representatives to analyze the implementation of UNDRIP in different contexts and discuss effective strategies to ensure free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC).
An example is the Commission for Historical Clarification, La Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico, which was created in 1994 to clarify the past with “objectivity, justice and impartiality” in response to the thousands of atrocities and human rights violations committed during Guatemala's Сivil War (1960-1996).
The participants agreed that there must be a clear and precise definition of climate change and culturally relevant systems to understand the problem and find community solutions, such as ensuring continuity with agroecological practices, diversifying reforestation, strengthening of seed banks, and use and respect for Traditional Knowledge in the care of the territories.
Through a practice that comprises art making, media producing, exhibition curation, and archival research, he spotlights urgent conversations while leveraging accusations and clamoring for colonially-rooted societies and institutions to reckon with their complicitness in the marginalization of Indigenous Peoples.
They are brave men, women, elders and youth who are in the last line of defense for their forest communities against commercial or state-owned industrial companies that destroy everything in their path to economic gain and multimillion-dollar profits.
“We who have the spiritual strength and relied on our land as a source of life are now selling our wealth and allowing them to be devastated in the name of progress…So what kind of progress is this?” asked the resident of the Jequitinhonha Valley, questioning the false promise of lithium mining corporations.
Establishing a commission to reexamine treaties signed with Tribal Nations and find ways they can be honored and implemented in today’s circumstances by operationalizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including upholding Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in all department consultation practices.
Radio provides the opportunity to continue developing the capacities of men and women, to make spots, podcasts, and special programs in our own languages with topics that affect us, and also to share good practices in the care of the land and the territory, mainly, traditional medicine, food security, among others.
The kind of knowledge that never makes it to medical journals the phases of the moon and their impact on childbirth, the way a Samburu woman’s body moves differently after she has carried water for years, the herbal remedies for fever that the colonizers never bothered to write down.
The UPR is a process conducted at the United Nations in Geneva that reviews each UN member state’s record with regard to its human rights obligations and commitments.
Forced assimilation is also a part of this process, which frequently includes the removal of children and separation of families, psychological violence, prevention of the ability to lead a traditional lifestyle, perverted notions of cultural values, and the imposition of moral principles by outsiders.
As you enter the Bazaar, you'll be welcomed into a space filled with joy and resilience, where the air is alive with music and the presence of Indigenous vendors and cooperatives sharing their culture and stories.