REDD: Indigenous Peoples not allowed to speak at UNFCCC-10 Dec 2008

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The statement, which was not read in the Plenary room:
Statement of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change
SBSTA
December 10, 2008
Chair,
We acknowledge the efforts of some Parties who have supported and worked with us to reflect our rights and our full and effective participation in this COP14. However, we DENOUNCE those Parties, including Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia who continue to exercise, outmoded, outdated colonial power structures that the rest of the world left behind decades ago.
We remind the parties that UNFCCC is NOT a consensus document AND perhaps a time has come for a simple majority vote that lets these four nations know how isolated their position is.
On the 60th Anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights IT IS APALLING that any UNITED NATIONS BODY is still denies extending the Rights enshrined in this document to the Indigenous Peoples of the planet. It is a abrogation of BOTH the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Reference to the draft text ON SBSTA 29 agenda item 5, on REDD (Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries: approaches to stimulate action]. In the annex of this document, 1 (c ), we are profoundly disappointed that the Indigenous Peoples fundamental rights, INCLUDING the UNDRIP and other existing Human Rights instruments (Convention ILO169) are not included in the operative paragraphs of the latest document of SBSTA29 .
We, are just not ONE SINGLE indigenous people, as the document states. WE ARE a multitude of indigenous Peoples from multiple countries, with multiple languages, diverse cultures and background and experiences. TO REDUCE all this, to the concept of a singular unitary experience IS A DENIAL OF THE RICHNESS OF DIVERSITY THAT EXIST WITHIN, the framework of indigenous peoples as a collective of individual nations.
For this reason, WE, appeal to the UNFCCC and Parties take affirmative action to reaffirm the rights of Indigenous Peoples as codified in UNDRIP and other relevant Human Rights instruments (EG. Convention ILO 169). Any decision or measure that will be adopted at this COP, in particular the REDD process, must reaffirm the principle of free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous Peoples AND OUR RIGHT of the Indigenous Peoples TO SAY NO,. In that regard, Indigenous Peoples must be included as parties to official decisions, should be centrally involved in and benefit from, all climate change and forest programs and policies at all levels to ensure that they deliver justice and equity and contribute to sustainable development, biodiversity protection, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
We, demand an IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION of all REDD initiatives and carbon market schemes in Indigenous Peoples territories UNTIL Indigenous Peoples Rights are fully RECOGNIZED, PROTECTED AND PROMOTED.
Thank you.

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[asukakachai]

that's ridiculous about how indiginous aren't even able to have a voice.

[ikov]

@r4v3nch1ld

all white people?? little bit racist there.. be careful

[r4v3nch1ld]

@ikov I went to a highschool with 2000 white students, I would know

[maiwandwal]

institutions do not beleive in human rights!

infact, corporations are considered a PERSON! think abt that!

[ecolabs1]

Two minutes for their statment! What a disgraceful way to hold an international meeting.

[darkpowerz6666]

that is fuckin retarded! y aren't they letting them talk wtf?? fuck the civil jury!

[AtomicPhill]

get a gun and shoot em, thats the only way theyll understand. is with a barrel of a gun :)

[r4v3nch1ld]

For some reason all white people dont like Natives, I just dont understand

[landofsuchbeauty]

the other left ;-)

[rws1073]

Lots of things in this world are "unfair" at this time, but repeating the word unfair won't make the changes required. In fact there will always be "unfairness" in this world. Let's all forget about the words and DO something about the injustices in this world.

Let's pay the people who own and depend upon the forests and not governments. There is enough privately owned indigenous forests in the world to really reduce the effects of global warming and give much deserved income to preserve them