Posted on 09/13/2007 1:22:55 PM PDT by processing please hold
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples after 22 years of debate.
The treaty sets down protections for the human rights of native peoples, and for their land and resources.
It passed despite opposition from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. They said it was incompatible with their own laws.
There are estimated to be up to 370 million indigenous people in the world.
They include the Innu tribe in Canada, the Bushmen of Botswana and Australia's Aborigines.
Campaigners say they are under greater pressure than ever, as developers, loggers, farmers and mineral extractors move in on their land.
'Important symbol'
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples calls on countries to give more control to tribal peoples over the land and resources they traditionally possessed, and to return confiscated territory, or pay compensation.
The General Assembly passed it, with 143 countries voting in favour and 11 abstaining.
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The U.N. would destroy modern civilization if it could. It’s sure trying hard enough.
How long until Ahmahwackjob proposes sanctions on the U.S. for violations?
What’s the problem? I am a native of the USA!
Were the 11 abstainers Latin American countries without the courage to vote against?
Oh wait, wasn’t the ground the U.N. building is on now, tribal lands? Why for certain it was. Better raise the building right away and give back the land.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
What point in time does one choose in order to declare a particular country's natives The Natives?
They’re probably already drawn up and submitted.
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples after 22 years of debate.Right on time for the UN, and with all the authority we've come to expect.
22 years... and now it will be non-binding.
Do the English have to return land to the Welsh? (rhetorical).
Now lets see them enforce it.
“give more control to tribal peoples over the land and resources they traditionally possessed, and to return confiscated territory”
Does this mean the muslim invaders of Lebanon have to give it back to the Christians?
Good queation, meanwhile where are we supposed to move to now that ‘the natives’ get their land back, or we have to pay them at today’s rates for the complete territory of the United States?
The U.N. has long since passed the point of no return. Will our leaders ever wake up?
I am indigenous to the United States. I am a native American. I was born here, live here, and I occurred naturally. [I’m sure the same can’t be said for some on the left.]
The Muslims would have to withdraw to some sand cave in Saudi Arabia. All of the “Muslim” lands in the Middle East were once Christian or Zoroastrian.
Already discussed this today (before passage).
The time limit is 1492, and based only on Whitey Europeans incursions since then.
Noone else has ever pushed out/killed off any “race”, you see.
Just like no nation except the US has ever had slaves.
This is worthless. Shows how utterly fascist they are towards freedom.
Like the League of Nations in the 1930s and their inept response to the rise of Nazism, the U.N. will be similarly inept and dissolved in response to the rise of Islamo-Nazism.
White-on-white, we don’t care about.
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