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Act today for indigenous peoples' rights

This action alert relates to the NZ government's continuing refusal to support indigenous peoples' human rights - as seen most recently in their statement to the new Human Rights Council which is currently meeting for the first time in Geneva. The Human Rights Council was established to strengthen human rights at the international level and their application nationally and locally. Unfortunately however, some governments are already attempting to use the Council to deny indigenous peoples' their human rights, and the NZ government is foremost among them - please act today to let them know this is not acceptable.

http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/in270606.htm

(Added: Tue Jun 27 2006   Hits: 484)

Act now: UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

This action alert is focused on recent developments around the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It is a critical time for the Declaration with some governments, NZ foremost among them, intent on amending the text to a point where it becomes essentially meaningless - if they have their way, rather being a means to recognise and protect indigenous peoples' rights, it will restrict and define them as substantially less than the rights of others.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Act%20now.doc

(Added: Mon Jun 18 2007   Hits: 259)

Action Against the Salween Dams in Burma

Stand up in solidarity with Burma's victims of severe and systematic human rights violations and environmental destruction. Protest against the Thai government's plans with the Burmese military dictatorship to dam the Salween River in Burma. Civil War is raging in the area around the dam sites and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced at gunpoint. Dams are being used as a military strategy against the ethnic peoples of Burma. Torture, rape, and killings of villagers are continuing as more soldiers are being deployed and more landmines laid. Dams will provide financial support to the military junta. Massive corruption is inevitable given the complete lack of transparency. The dams will permanently degrade Southeast Asia's longest free flowing river's fisheries, floodplains, teak forests and wildlife habitats, and flood villages and fertile agricultural land. What Can You Do? Demonstrate in front of your local Thai Embassy/Consulate on September 21, 2006 Contact your Thai embassy and share your concerns. Sign the petition letter attached. Encourage others to sign the petition and participate in the action. Hold roundtable talks, meetings, documentary showings, and other events to raise awareness about this issue.

http://www.petitiononline.com/9202006/petition.html

(Added: Mon Sep 11 2006   Hits: 225)

Advocates Draw on Communities to Free Enslaved Pygmies in Eastern Congo

Advocates for indigenous rights have launched a three-month campaign to free pygmies who have been forced into slavery by local rulers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Free%20Enslaved%20Pygmies%20in%20Eastern%20Congo.doc

(Added: Fri Mar 07 2008   Hits: 32)

Bomb to be dropped on Western Shoshone Nation's ancestral land

Just weeks after the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged the United States to halt any actions taken against or threatened against the Western Shoshone people, the US has announced plans to drop a 700-ton bunker-busting bomb on this disputed territory on 2 June 2006. Being the most bombed nation in the world, the Western Shoshone already suffer unusually high rates of leukaemia and birth defects. Western Shoshone activists say nothing much has changed since the earlier genocide (where US soldiers handed out blankets laced with smallpox) eradicated 98% of the indigenous population: only this time it is a 'spiritual genocide' against the Earth. The explosion can only be halted if there is enough opposition. This article includes information on how to take action. (Nicola Graydon, The Ecologist Blog, 20 April 2006)

http://www.theecologist.org/blog_full.asp?blog_detail_id=15

(Added: Fri Apr 28 2006   Modified: Thu Feb 15 2007   Hits: 339)

Call for the recognition of Awa land rights

Write to your Brazilian embassy and to the Brazilian government asking them to recognise the land rights of the Awa people, Brazil's last truly nomadic tribe, who live in the the devastated forests of the eastern Amazon.

http://www.survival-international.org/how_to_help.php?howto_help_id=46&n=null&tribe_id=47

(Added: Tue Sep 05 2006   Hits: 219)

Canada: Stolen Sisters - Help break the silence

According to Canadian government statistics, young Indigenous women in Canada are at least five times more likely than all other women to die as a result of violence. Please support our continuing efforts to urge the federal government to establish a comprehensive and coordinated plan of action to stop violence against Indigenous women. (Amnesty International, Canada)

http://www.amnesty.ca/campaigns/sisters_overview.php

(Added: Mon May 28 2007   Hits: 150)

Choose a winner in the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy

The Coalition Against Biopiracy today calls for nominations for the Fifth Captain Hook Awards. What's the most scandalous case of biopiracy in your country? Who's ripping off indigenous knowledge or the environment? Nominate your least favorite pirate for a 2008 Captain Hook Award.

http://www.captainhookawards.org

(Added: Thu Mar 13 2008   Hits: 28)

Express your concern about the future of the Sentinelese and Jarawa tribes

Local settlers are entering the Jarawa reserve from the coast and the road, and persuading the Jarawa to hunt for them in return for alcohol, tobacco and food. If this continues, the Jarawa are likely to lose their independence and may be wiped out completely. The Sentinelese have demonstrated their wish to be left alone: failure to respect this risks further deaths, and could expose the tribe to diseases to which they have no immunity. Urge the government to ensure that the law is enforced and that outsiders are kept away from the land of all the tribes of the islands; and that the Andaman Trunk Road is closed in accordance with the orders of the Indian supreme court, and that the spirit of the Andamans administration's Jarawa policy is upheld.

http://www.survival-international.org/how_to_help.php?howto_help_id=39

(Added: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 197)

Global Exchange Action Center

Global Exchange's action centre provides you the means to take action on a number of issues. Make a call. Send a letter. Send a fax. Let your voice be heard.

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actions.html

(Added: Thu Feb 20 2003   Modified: Thu Jun 15 2006   Hits: 534)

Help Protect Enawene Nawe Land in Brazil

The Enawene Nawe live in an area of savannah and tropical rainforest in Mato Grosso state, western Brazil. Although most of their land was officially reconised in 1996, a crucial area called the Rio Preto, where the Indians gather each year to trap and smoke fish, was left out. The area is being heavily invaded by ranchers, and in a further blow the Mato Grosso state government has announced it will build a vast complex of hydroelectric dams upriver of the Enawene Nawe's land. You can help the Enawene Nawe by joining survival international in their letter writing campaign.

http://www.survival-international.org/actnow/letters/enawenenawe

(Added: Tue Aug 28 2007   Hits: 167)

Help the Ngobe Keep Their Land

The Ngobe in Panama are at risk of being moved off their land to make way for a hydroelectric dam project. Cultural Survival are asking for donations to help them fight this action.

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/programs/panama.cfm

(Added: Thu Mar 20 2008   Hits: 41)

Petition on the UN draft declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

An estimated 370 million Indigenous women, men and children worldwide face racism, discriminatory laws and eviction from lands central to their cultures and livelihoods. The draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council at its historic first meeting in June. The Declaration must now be adopted by the UN General Assembly in order to become part of the body of international human rights standards. Canada, United States, Russia, New Zealand and Australia have opposed the adoption of the Declaration. It's feared that the small group of states that have opposed the Declaration will put pressure on other governments to join them in voting against the Declaration. Call on all states to support the Declaration.

http://www.amnesty.ca/ip_un_petition/UN_indigenous_rights_petition.php

(Added: Mon Sep 25 2006   Modified: Fri Sep 29 2006   Hits: 196)

Progress Can Kill

Forcing 'development' or 'progress' on tribal people does not make them happier or healthier. In fact, the effects are disastrous. The most important factor by far for tribal peoples' well-being is whether their land rights are respected. Learn why here (Survival International).

http://www.survival-international.org/campaigns/progresscankill

(Added: Tue Dec 11 2007   Hits: 73)

Protest the Brazilian government's treatment of the Guarani

The Guarani Indians in Brazil are suffering terribly from the theft of almost all their land. They experience this theft as an offence against their religion as well as a destruction of their way of life and livelihood. Thousands of them now live crowded onto tiny plots of land increasingly hemmed in by ranches and plantations - the land is not enough for them to support themselves as before through hunting, fishing and farming. Instead they are exploited as cheap labour by the ranchers and plantation owners. Write to the Brazilian government, and your country's government and Brazilian embassy.

http://www.survival-international.org/tribes.php?tribe_id=50

(Added: Mon Jan 29 2007   Modified: Tue Jan 30 2007   Hits: 249)

Protest the the persecution of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen and Bakgalagadi

The Gana and Gwi tribes in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve are among the most persecuted peoples in Africa. Far from recognising their ownership rights over the land they have lived on for thousands of years, the Botswana government has in fact forced almost all of them off it. The harassment began in 1986, and the first forced removals were in 1997. Those that remained faced torture, drastic restrictions in their hunting rights, and routine harassment. In early 2002, this harassment intensified, accompanied by the destruction of the Bushmen's water pump, the draining of their existing water supplies into the desert, and the banning of hunting and gathering. Almost all were forced out by these tactics, but a large number have since returned, with many more desperate to do so.

http://www.survival-international.org/how_to_help.php?howto_help_id=48

(Added: Fri Oct 27 2006   Hits: 180)

Public Participation on NZ government position on the text of the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

This petition calls on the government of New Zealand to immediately engage in mutually meaningful ways with iwi, hapu and other Maori organisations, as well as the general public, to review and substantially improve the government position on the UN draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/489895927?ltl=1158029695

(Added: Tue Sep 12 2006   Hits: 234)

Racism Kills Tribal People: Stamp It Out

Survival's Stamp It Out campaign aims to challenge racist descriptions of tribal peoples in the media. What's the problem? Terms like 'stone age' and 'primitive' have been used to describe tribal people since the colonial era, reinforcing the idea that they have not changed over time and that they are backward. This idea is both incorrect and very dangerous. It is incorrect because all societies adapt and change, and it is dangerous because it is often used to justify the persecution or forced 'development' of tribal peoples. The results are almost always catastrophic: poverty, alcoholism, prostitution, disease and death. Check out this Survival International campaign to find out more, and how you can get involved.

http://survival-international.org/stampitout.php

(Added: Mon Feb 20 2006   Hits: 328)

Radioactive Waste Dump in South Australia: Get Involved

(Irati Wanti) The Australian Government is proposing a national radioactive waste dump in the central desert homelands of South Australia. The dump will open the door to high level waste and threaten country and culture for thousands of years. Support the inspiring and relentless campaign of the Kungka Tjuta to protect culture and country from the proposed nuclear waste dump.

http://www.iratiwanti.org/iratiwanti.php3?page=get_involved

(Added: Mon Jun 21 2004   Modified: Tue Jun 20 2006   Hits: 329)

Say "No" to the project "Pascua-Lama"

Benath the glaciers in Chile's Valle de San Felix, huge deposits of gold, silver and other minerals have been found. To get at these, the company Barrick Gold will drill holes in the glacier, destroying the ecosystem and affecting the lives of the people in the area. The Chilean Government has approved the project to start this year, 2006. Add your name to the online petition against the project. (Added 5 May 2006)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/946839131?ltl=1146707689

(Added: Fri May 05 2006   Modified: Tue Jun 20 2006   Hits: 501)

Stamp It Out

Help stamp out pejorative terms used to describe tribal people like 'stone age' and 'primitive'.

http://www.survival-international.org/campaigns/stampitout

(Added: Fri Dec 14 2007   Hits: 87)

Stop Oil Development in National Park / Belize

Five oil companies already have been licensed to conduct seismic explorations, both on land and off shore. Belize's 90 "protected" areas are fair game. Not even the National Parks are spared the invasion of heavy machinery and shattering blasts of dynamite. The first showdown on Parks vs. Oil is underway in southern Belize, where Texas-based US Capital Energy is licensed to conduct oil explorations including the 41,000-acre Sarstoon Temash National Park. Who is fighting to protect the Park? Belize's poorest and most disenfranchised people: the Maya and Garifuna communities that depend on the Park's resources for their traditional livelihoods. Please send a polite letter to Belize's Prime Minister with copies to the Ministers of Tourism and Natural Resources.

http://www.globalresponse.org/gra.php?i=current

(Added: Mon Sep 18 2006   Hits: 211)

Stop the intimidation and violence torwards Papua's tribal peoples

Write a letter to the President of Indonesia to express concern at the death threats received by human rights activists and LEMASA, the Amungme tribal council, in Papua, and at the intimidation and violence experienced by Papua's tribal peoples. Urge the Indonesian government to halt the military build-up in Papua and the intimidation of the province's human rights workers. There must also be a fully independent investigation into the death of Theys Eluay. Urge the government to revive the process of 'National Dialogue' with the Papuan people.

http://www.survival-international.org/how_to_help.php?howto_help_id=40

(Added: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 235)

Stop the logging invasion of the Yora Indians territory

Under international law, the Peruvian government is obliged to recognise these isolated Indians' ownership of their lands. All logging permits granted within the territory of the isolated Indians in Madre de Dios should be cancelled. Those loggers already inside the reserve run the risk of exposing the Indians to disease and violence - as has happened in the past - and should be removed. Use this letter as a guide to write to the President of Peru, S.E. Alejandro Toledo.

http://www.survival-international.org/how_to_help.php?howto_help_id=43

(Added: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 198)

Support Afghani Orphans- Sponsor an Orphanage

The child sponsorship program of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is in need of more support. This program, which enables sponsors to build relationships with their sponsored child via the internet, has filled existing orphanage facilities in Pakistan, partly because of the recent war and earthquake. To aid the children still living in dire situations, we urgently need to add more of these facilities. To help us to meet this need, partners CharityHelp International and Afghan's Women's Mission, have assisted in implementing a program to enable individuals or organizations to contribute towards an entire orphanage. You and/or your organization can support this effort by providing one-time or on-going operational support for starting new orphanages that we expect will eventually become self-sustaining through our child sponsorship program. For more information on how this can easily be done online, visit the website.

http://www.rawa.org/orphanage.htm

(Added: Wed Apr 12 2006   Modified: Tue Sep 19 2006   Hits: 271)

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