Comments on: Native peoples left out in the cold at Rio+20 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/native-peoples-left-out-in-the-cold-at-rio20/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: gerry oates http://www.redpepper.org.uk/native-peoples-left-out-in-the-cold-at-rio20/#comment-64837 gerry oates Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:02:40 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=7869#comment-64837 The First peoples tried to make their presence felt but were marginalised -as ever!Some pictures I have seen are of the venue showed it was surrounded by troops or police dressed in full riot gear that made them look like aliens from another planet which in a strange way tells us something about the Nation States whose entitlement only stems from the time they landed on some shore and planted a national flag claiming the territory on behalf of their Rulers

]]> By: Richard Harkinson http://www.redpepper.org.uk/native-peoples-left-out-in-the-cold-at-rio20/#comment-64507 Richard Harkinson Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:41:03 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=7869#comment-64507 Rio 2012 the future we want A/CONF.216/L.1

49. We stress the importance of the participation of indigenous peoples in the achievement of sustainable development. We also recognize the importance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of global, regional, national and subnational implementation of sustainable development strategies.

better than most of the text.

The UN General Assembly ratified this in January 2007. It means that indigenous peoples have rights of free prior informed consent to development which affects them and the land on which they live. How do we take this forward?

Lucy Lawless refused to submit to this lazy stereotype- oh well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/jun/30/lucy-lawless-xena-ecowarrior-protest?INTCMP=SRCH

You are right about Richard Branson though.

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