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UN Passes Treaty on Native Rights
BBC News ^ | September 13, 2007

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aborigines; amerindians; ausaborigines; maori; treaty; un
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Got it.


41 posted on 09/13/2007 2:04:25 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: TChris

There are Native American (Indian) sights about this issue.


42 posted on 09/13/2007 2:06:01 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: counterpunch

Increments, so we won’t notice the water is getting hotter.


43 posted on 09/13/2007 2:08:02 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: processing please hold
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.

But I thought the U.N. was against a Jewish homeland in Israel.

44 posted on 09/13/2007 2:08:47 PM PDT by LexBaird (Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
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To: weegee

Not that I’ve seen.


45 posted on 09/13/2007 2:08:57 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: processing please hold

Sure is...


46 posted on 09/13/2007 2:10:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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To: processing please hold

Agreed. Thanks.


47 posted on 09/13/2007 2:11:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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To: chaos_5
Now lets see them enforce it.

It will be interesting.

48 posted on 09/13/2007 2:15:39 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: DoughtyOne

raze


49 posted on 09/13/2007 2:15:51 PM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: TChris
Here's the State Departments meaning of "native."

"Indigenous people generally are defined as the sector of the population descended from the original inhabitants of the region. Among the indigenous populations identified by the United Nations are the Indians of the Americas, the Inuit and Aleutians of the northernmost regions of the world, the Saami of northern Europe, the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia and the Maori of New Zealand."

50 posted on 09/13/2007 2:17:21 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: ccmay
Does this apply to the indigenous peoples of Europe, who are being overrun by murderous Mahometans,

The un is their enabler and go between? Nope, anything they want, the un is in their corner.

51 posted on 09/13/2007 2:20:23 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: processing please hold
Indigenous people generally are defined as the sector of the population descended from the original inhabitants of the region.

LOL!

A circular definition. How quaint.

OK, since the word "native" means "Indigenous", and "Indigenous" relies on the term "original inhabitants", the next logical question is this: What is the definition of the term "original inhabitants"?

How far back do you go to declare a group of inhabitants "original"?

The whole thing is a malicious, thinly-veiled power grab. (As if most of the UN's day-to-day work isn't...)

52 posted on 09/13/2007 2:21:19 PM PDT by TChris (Has anyone under Mitt Romney's leadership ever been worse off because he is Mormon?)
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To: processing please hold

The UN is the enemy of western civilization. We’d be better off leaving.


53 posted on 09/13/2007 2:21:57 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Route66

According to the SD, only the “Original Inhabitants” are native. If you’re not an American Indian, you’re not indigenous or native.


54 posted on 09/13/2007 2:22:27 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: LexBaird
But I thought the U.N. was against a Jewish homeland in Israel.

Wouldn't that be poetic justice if Israel petitioned them. lol

55 posted on 09/13/2007 2:24:16 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
I ‘spose this means that the afrocentrists will now be advocating pushing “norteafricanos” into the Med?

This can turn into one ugly can of worms.

56 posted on 09/13/2007 2:26:05 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: DoughtyOne

Ratification of unclos (L.O.S.T) will come up on the 27. I shudder to think what will happen to our country if that is ratified.


57 posted on 09/13/2007 2:29:15 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: TChris
The whole thing is a malicious, thinly-veiled power grab. (As if most of the UN's day-to-day work isn't...)

BINGO!

58 posted on 09/13/2007 2:30:39 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: processing please hold

Yep, we played around too long and now the U.N. is going to become a major pain in the a—.


59 posted on 09/13/2007 2:30:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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To: DesScorp
The UN is the enemy of western civilization. We’d be better off leaving.

Too many of our politicians support it.

60 posted on 09/13/2007 2:31:49 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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