Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 15, 2007

BOLIVIA RISING!

Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia celebrate their resistance and sovereignty over their land and resources, announcing decrees on migration, their right to water and women's rights, while celebrating the emergence of a new world leader: Bolivian President Evo Morales

Bolivia Rising
A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples Chimoré, Cochabamba, Bolivia
From the heart of South America, on this 12th day of October, 2007, the delegates of the indigenous first nations and peoples of the world, meeting in the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World”, to celebrate the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, hereby declare: That, after 515 years of oppression and domination, here we stand; they have been unable to eliminate us. We have confronted and resisted the policies of ethnocide, genocide, colonization, destruction and plunder. Read more ...
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