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Speaker urges states to implement U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Summary
An unidentified speaker at a public meeting called on states to ‘‘domesticate’’ the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and reinvest in human-rights protections, citing criminalization of indigenous communities, environmental contamination and gender-based violence.
An unidentified speaker at a public meeting urged states to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, saying the declaration — adopted by the United Nations in 2007 as General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/295 — recognizes historical injustices and sets norms for redress.
The speaker said the declaration took more than 20 years of negotiation and highlighted the declaration’s “very strong rights for indigenous people, notably the right to self-determination,” which the speaker described as a core principle that allows indigenous peoples to “determine their destiny, to decide on what their education system will be, their…
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