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INDIGENOUS GROUPS CALL FOR HALT BY FOREIGN COMPANIES OF LAND USE FOR OIL, MINING, WITHOUT THEIR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, CONSENT, AS PERMANENT FORUM CONTINUES – 7thSpace Interactive

NDIGENOUS GROUPS CALL FOR HALT BY FOREIGN COMPANIES OF LAND USE FOR OIL, MINING, WITHOUT THEIR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, CONSENT, AS PERMANENT FORUM CONTINUES As Stewards of Environment, ‘Indigenous People Cannot Be Sacrificed 7th Space 23 May 09

On the Altar of Climate Change’, Forum HearsCATHERINE DAVIS, Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Caucus, observed that there remained only three Member States opposed to the Declaration. Among them were the United States and New Zealand, while Australia had recently made moves to endorse it. She then described the situation facing five groups of indigenous peoples in the Pacific — the Maori, Hawaii, Tahiti, Alifuru and Papua, and Torres Straits — and made several requests of the Permanent Forum on issues relating to those groups. In New Zealand, she said the Permanent Forum should invite the Government to implement a recommendation recently made by a local commission to give the Maori people three of the 23 seats on the Auckland “Super-City” Council (Auckland was home to the largest urban Maori population in the world). The New Zealand Government was currently ignoring that recommendation……………………………………In French Polynesia, she asked for a visit by the Special Rapporteur, because Polynesian law had been declared inferior to French law. The Permanent Forum should provide funding for a seminar to educate indigenous peoples on their rights.

INDIGENOUS GROUPS CALL FOR HALT BY FOREIGN COMPANIES OF LAND USE FOR OIL, MINING, WITHOUT THEIR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, CONSENT, AS PERMANENT FORUM CONTINUES – 7thSpace Interactive

May 23, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized