World Conference On Indigenous Peoples 2014
Solidarity Statement of the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights in Manipur and the UN
22 September 2014:
Civil Society Coalition On Human Rights In Manipur
And The United Nations
Solidarity Statement To The High Level Meeting Of The Unga,
Also Known As World Conference On Indigenous Peoples,
22-23 September 2014
End Martial Law Governance, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Violations And Development Aggression In Manipur,
India: Promulgate A Fitting Public Policy To Protect Indigenous Peoples In Manipur
On the occasion of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. a High Level Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly, from 22-23 September 2014, New York City, CSCHR transmitted a Solidarity Statement through its delegation led by Mr Jiten Yumnam.
o Manipur, an ancient indigenous native state of Asia known by various names in the past – Mekley, Kathé, Kangleipak – now an Indian provincial State located in its North East territories aptly embodies the struggles indigenous peoples worldwide are undergoing today, at the same time tragic and heroic in character.
o Like most indigenous peoples territories, from the Amazon and the Andes to North American plains and river basins, from the southern Africa to the Asia and the Pacific, where indigenous peoples and their communities have always lived close to each other and shared their natural inheritance, Manipur is a province with a territory shared by 33 communities indigenous to the region that straddles South and South East Asia.
o Throughout the greater part of the modern period of India’s independent history, from the 1950s till today, the indigenous peoples of Manipur comprising broadly of the Meitei, Naga and Kuki-Chin groups face three critical areas of threat that are relentlessly obliterating us, destroying our lands and extinguishing our great cultural heritage.
o Protecting indigenous peoples is protecting the Earth. The Government of India must end its denial of the existence of indigenous peoples within its territories, and embrace totally the undertaking in the United Nations to secure the rights of indigenous peoples.
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This Press Release was posted on September 23 2014
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