UN affirms Indigenous Peoples are not equal to all other PeoplesThe follow release was sent out yesterday by the
Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus at the UN. I post in here in the context of
Hawaiian issues to point out that for Kanaka Oiwi, your status as an indigenous
people provides little foundation internationally. It is rather your status as
descendants of nationals of the fully recognized independent and sovereign
country of the Hawaiian kingdom that provides your strong legal, political, and
diplomatic foundation. Apropos that this release was sent out on Hawaiian Independence
Day.
(BTW, about 10 years ago, my wife Kekula was very active in this effort for the Draft Declaration, traveling to Working Group sessions at Geneva and New York several times as a delegate for the International Indian Treaty Council, and in 1996 through her work with NetWarriors with my support from home she and I pioneered the use of the Internet for real-time reporting and support at the UN, setting up a website and listserv, sending out regular updates from the session, and then receiving messages of support from around the world that were posted on a bulletin board outside the meeting room for all the delegates—states and indigenous—to see. But even at that time, she was working on behalf of other indigenous peoples around the world, and recognized that this was not the venue for Hawaii due to its unique history and status as a fully recognized member of the World Family of Nations. At that time the U.S. and other countries were trying to remove any right of self-determination for indigenous peoples, or redefine self-determination in a domestic context to preclude any right to independence. Ten years later now and the Declaration still hasn't been adopted.) From the Indigenous Peoples' Caucus. Posted: Wed - November 29, 2006 at 06:47 AM |
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