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Mary and Carrie Dann and the Western Shoshone Defense Project support
this action -- Please take note of its urgency - support must be
expressed this week.
HUNGER STRIKE BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' REPRESENTATIVES AT THE UNITED
NATIONS!
Today, November 29th, 2004, at 11 am, we, Indigenous Peoples' delegates,
declare a hunger strike and spiritual fast inside the United Nations
Palais des Nations in Geneva, during this 3rd week of the 10th session
of the Intersessional Working Group on the United Nations Draft
Declaration for the Rights on Indigenous Peoples.
We, Indigenous peoples' delegates from different countries, undertake
this action, with the support and solidarity of Indigenous Peoples and
organizations from around the world, to call the world's attention to
the continued attempts by some states, as well as this UN process
itself, to weaken and undermine the Draft Declaration developed in the
UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations and adopted by the UN
Subcommission for the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities in 1994.
The Sub Commission text has also been endorsed and supported by hundreds
of Indigenous Peoples and organizations around the world as the minimum
standard required for the recognition and protection of Indigenous
Peoples' rights internationally.
We delegates who will undertake the hunger strike, along with the
undersigned Indigenous Peoples, organizations, tribal governments,
Nations, communities and Networks, call for the Sub Commission text of
the Declaration to be sent back to the UN Commission on Human Rights
with the message that in 10 years, proposals by States to weaken or
amend the text have not gained the consensus of the Working Group
participants, which include both states and Indigenous Peoples.
Mr. Luis Chavez, the Chairman Rapporteur of the Working Group should
report this reality and not present a "consolidated text" as if it was
"close to consensus." The Commission on Human Rights must establish a
process that does not provide a handful of States an opportunity to
weaken the human rights of Indigenous Peoples. The process also must
take into account the voices of the great numbers of Indigenous Peoples
from all parts of the world.
We will not allow our rights to be negotiated, compromised or diminished
in this UN process, which was initiated more than 20 years ago by
Indigenous Peoples. The United Nations itself says that human rights are
inherent and inalienable, and must be applied to all Peoples without
discrimination.
We request that the Secretariat of this session immediately inform the
Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights and the High
Commissioner herself of this action. We also request that the
Secretariat arrange for the hunger strikers to be able remain in the UN
during the entire week of the session.
Indigenous delegates participating in the hunger strike inside the
United Nations include:
Adelard Blackman, Buffalo River Dene Nation, Canada ;
Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Nation, Arizona United States ;
Alexis Tiouka, Kali�a, French Guyana ;
Charmaine White Face, Ogala Tetuwan, Sioux Nation Territory, North
America ;
Danny Billie, Traditional Independent Seminole Nation of Florida, United
States;
Saul Vicente, Zapoteca, Mexico.
Send expressions of solidarity from Indigenous Peoples and supporters
for the "hunger strike for Indigenous Rights" and for the adoption of
the current text of the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples to the UN Session during this week.
Send faxes to: ++ 41 22 917 00 79 (DoCip, for logistic support)
E-mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To have your support letter posted on the IITC web page, also send it
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], with "to post" in the subject line.
For more information in Geneva contact:
Andrea Carmen (English, Spanish), IITC, 076 546 04 21
(for International calls dial ++ 41 76 546 04 21)
Cyril Sch�nb�chler (French, English), IndiGeneva, 078 716 52 39 or 022
733 28 73
(for International calls dial ++ 41 78 716 52 39 or ++ 41 22 733 28 73)
Anne-Marie Cruz (French, English, Spanish), IndiGeneva, 076 450 83 18
(for International calls dial ++ 41 76 450 83 18)
The following organizations, Nations, Tribal Governments and communities
have signed on in support of this action and of the position we present:
Africa
Indigenous Peoples African Coordinating Committee (IPACC)
Argentina
Asociaci�n Mapuche los Toldos
Organizacion de Naciones y Pueblos Ind�genas en Argentina
Comisi�n de Juristas en la Rep�blica de Argentina
Argentina/Bolivia/Chile/Peru
Parlamento del Pueblo Kullana Aymara
Arctic
Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition
Kasgit Council of Elders, Nutmlak (Inherent Traditional Government),
Iupik Nation, Alaska
Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, Alaska
Asia
Alifurus in Maluku (Moluccas)
Bolivia
Confederaci�n Sindical �nica de Trabajadores campesinos de Bolivia
(CSUTCB)
Taypi Ceqe (Organizaci�n Ind�gena Aymara)
Canada
Buffalo River Dene Nation
Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations
Ermineskin Cree Nation
Indigenous Organization of Indigenous Resource Development (IOIRD)
Innu Council of Nitassinan
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
Chile
Consejo de Todas las Tierras
Colombia
Akuaipa Waimakat (Asociaci�n de Derechos Humanos Wayuu de la Guajira)
Organizaci�n Zonal Ind�gena del Putumayo (OZIP)
Ecuador
Instituto Cientifico de Culturas Indigenas (Amawta Runakunapak Yachay)
French Guyana
F�d�ration des Organisations autochtones de Guyane (FOAG), membre de la
COICA
Guatemala
Comite Campesina del Altiplano (CCDA)
CONAVIGUA
Defensoria Maya
Fundacion Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Guatemala)
Oxlajuj Ajpop de los Ajq'ijab' (Conferencia Nacional de Ministros de la
Espritualidad Maya de Guatemala)
Kenya
Maimyoito Pastoralist Intgegrated Organization
Mexico
Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos
Agencia Internacional de Prensa India (AIPIN)
Alianza de Organizaciones Sociales
Alianza de Pueblos Ind�gena de la Sierra Oriente del Estado de M�xico
Alianza Ind�gena Mexicana-Anipa Hidalgo
Anipa Chihuahua
Anipa Guerrero
Anipa Quintana Roo
Anipa Tabasco
Asamblea Nacional Ind�gena Plural por la Autonom�a
Asamblea Nacional por la Autonomia (ANIPA)
Asociacion Nacional de Abogados Democraticos (ANAD)
Axale, S.S.S.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Yaxkin
Centro Nacional de Comunicaci�n Social, A.C.
Centro para el Autodesarrollo de los Pueblos Ind�genas del Alto Balsas
Centros de Derechos Humanos Digna Ochoa
CEREAL GUADALAJARA
CEREAL MEXICO
Cesem A.C.
Coalicion de Atencion a la Juventud
Comisi�n Mexicana de Defensa y Promoci�n de los Derechos Humanos A.C.
Consejo de la Naci�n Amuzga
Consejo de la Nacion Nahua
Consejo de la Nacionalidad Otom�
Consejo de Organizaciones Triquis
Consejo de Pueblos Nahuas del Alto Balsas, Guerrero, A.C.
Consejo Ind�gena Municipal Chocholteco
Consejo Ind�gena Popular de Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Mag�n" (CIPO-RFM -
Oaxaca)
Consejo Mazahua Regi�n Almoloya de Ju�rez
Consejo Tradicional de los Pueblos Indios de Sonora
Cooperativa Flores de la Tierra Amuzga
Coordinadora de Grupos Culturales Ind�genas y Populares
Coordinadora Guerrerense de Mujeres Ind�genas
Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Ind�genas
Coordinadora Regional de Organizaciones Ind�genas de la Sierra de
Zongolica
Educa A.C.
Federaci�n de Ind�genas Migrantes de Acapulco
Foro Migraciones
Fraternidad Revolucionaria
Frente Independiente de Pueblos Indios
Frente Indigena Campesino y Popular (FICAPO, A.P.N.)
Fundaci�n Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Mexico)
Incide Social
Jovenes En Alternativa Pacifica
La Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indigenas
Mephaa-Savi Mujeres Ind�genas
Nacion Purepecha Zapatista
Ndu Nu �u Savi
Noche Sihuame Sanse Tajome
Organizaci�n de Artesanos Migrantes "Tonhalli"
Organizaci�n Naci�n Purhepecha
Parlamento Ind�gena Estatal Campesino y Popular
Red Codapi
Red Ind�gena de Turismo Alternativo de M�xico
Red Ind�gena de Turismo de M�xico
Regiones Aut�nomas Pluri�tnicas
Romero" (SICSAL)
Se Ojtli Yankuik, A.C.
Secretariado Internacional Cristiano de Solidaridad con Am�rica Latina
"Oscar A.
SEPROJUSDAC, AC
Taller Universitario de Derechos Humanos A. C.
Umbral Axochiatl
Yoloxochitl SPR
Morroco
Tamaynut (Amazigh Peoples)
Pacific
Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Nation of Hawaii (Hawaii)
Sovereign Union of Aboriginal Nations and Peoples in Australia
Te Rau Aroha (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Panama
Asociaci�n Nabguana
Comunidad de Ustupu, Kuna Yala
Fundaci�n Dobbo Yala
Fundaci�n para la Promoci�n del Conocimiento Ind�gena
J�venes Ngobe - Bugle
Movimiento Juventud Kuna
Nis Bundor
Organizaci�n de J�venes Embera - Wounam de Panam�de
Red de Mujeres sobre la Biodiversidad
United States
Abya Yala Nexus
Cactus Valley/Red Willow Springs Sovereign Community, Big Mountain,
Arizona
Centro Mundo Maya
El Colectivo de Contacto Ancestral
Indigenous Environmental Network
Pit River Tribe, California
Seminole Sovereignty Protection Initiative, Oklahoma
Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council
Traditional Independent Seminole Nation of Florida
Wanblee Wakpeh Oyate, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
White Clay Society, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana
Yoemem Tekia Foundation (Pascua Yaqui Reservation, Arizona)
Multi-regional
Coordinadora Ind�gena de la Cuenca Amazonica (COICA)
Indigenous World Association
International Indian Treaty Council
Land is Life
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