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With your organisation, support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

After more than 20 years of negotiations, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in June 2006. It is now being sent to the United Nations General Assembly for adoption at the end of this year. The Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust (a Maori organisation active at the UN on the Declaration) has drafted a letter to send to overseas' embassies in New Zealand and Pacific States to lobby them to prevent New Zealand and other states from amending the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples before it is voted on in the UN General Assembly at the end of this year. If you think your organisation might like to add its name to the letter, go to this website.

http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/in210806.htm

(Added: Tue Aug 22 2006   Hits: 243)

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: 587)

UN expert urges South Africa and New Zealand to ratify ILO 169 immediately

The UN's top expert on indigenous rights has called on the governments of South Africa and New Zealand to ratify ILO Convention 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples' rights. ILO Convention 169 is the only legally binding international instrument which upholds tribal peoples' rights to the collective ownership of their lands. Here you can read the UN reports from both countries and find out how to urge the governments to ratify the convention. (Survival International, 12 June, 2006)

http://www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=1682

(Added: Thu Jun 15 2006   Modified: Tue Jun 20 2006   Hits: 296)

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: 552)

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: 396)

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: 333)

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: 385)

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: 385)

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: 609)

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