Where is the morality in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 61/295 executed?
"Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law." Article 1
Indigenous people or "aborigines" constitutes a controversial issue hurdling the path of resolving an existing conflict or interior communal dissension. This human category since was exposed to atrocious systematic ethnic-cleansing operations by colonizers many centuries, still suffering from a systematic rejection of their own identity and culture that the remaining of their descendants keep struggling to hold off the ruling powers' attempts of obliterating them. For instance, Native Americans is a long journey of suffering peaked with the latest battle they fought over a land claim where they stood up against pipeline project of North Dakota.
Basically, native people don't only experience insularity because they're discriminated against, but, the policies toward them haven't completely altered. They are underrepresented although the modern policies that politicians' significantly bring up to maintain civil liberties of natives opening up new horizons to embrace them into the political and social landscapes. The Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau has stressed on several occasions that Native Canadians must be equality treated as other people. He, therefore, set up a campaign calling for integrating them into all walks of life.
The international community highlighted this issue at official levels when the United Nations declared 1993 "the International Year of World's Indigenous People." This step aimed at enhancing global cooperation in tackling the setbacks that indigenous people encounter in many countries.
It followed by UN declaration that the period between 1994-2004 the International Decade of World's Indigenous People. And also, the UN took the same step declaring 2005 to 2015 as the second decade of World's Indigenous People. These steps had been preceded by International Labor Organization (ILO) in 1957 when it held a convention on protecting and integrating indigenous people and other ethnic groups in independent countries.
It's indicative that indigenous people are formally recognized and classified as a humanitarian issue that human rights group watching out their situation. However, the humanitarian issue isn't the only aspect that those groups are protected accordingly, there is an environmental consideration as aborigines mostly still live nomadic lifestyle keeping on their natural livestock. If their governments marginalize them, they won't be able to maintain the environment without aids to avoid coercive consumption to these natural resources, because poverty puts them into a position dictate on them using these resources up inappropriately.
For instance, in Latin America, there are over 400 different ethnic groups. Indigenous people make up approx 12 % of the overall population there, this percentage can be estimated nearly 50 million people.
In this region, and although most of Latin countries adopt international covenants on the rights of the native population, those natives still discriminated against and whose identity faces a steep path like racial misgivings of the legitimacy of their existence in their land.
Tracing this issue in the Latin American region, we could find out some shocking facts that native people don't enjoy equality in many fields. For example, their children attend school for a shorter time that non-native, as well as, native children engage in labor more than non-native. In spite of the fact that indigenous congregations in many Latin American countries are allowed to set up political and social campaigns. They, consequently, enjoy integrating their institutions into different spheres of general life, they still encountering various impediments.
Therefore, indigenous people carry the brunt of racial policies are implemented to encircle them off in an attempt has been obvious to eradicate their identity. What happened in September 2007 when the long-awaited UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted with 143 votes, after 20 years of deliberations within the General Assembly. 11 countries abstained and 4 (Canada, New Zealand, the USA and Australia) voted against claiming that this declaration violates their sovereignty.
Ironically, these four countries that voted against are characterized by plurinational and diversity. Furthermore, these decisions that have been taken thus far for raising the grievances of native people are legally not binding, it means that irrespective if the country voted for recognizing aborigins getting them equal civil rights, it finally could be nullified at a certain point which indicates the moral weakness in the international resolution for the rights of indigenous peoples.
It followed by UN declaration that the period between 1994-2004 the International Decade of World's Indigenous People. And also, the UN took the same step declaring 2005 to 2015 as the second decade of World's Indigenous People. These steps had been preceded by International Labor Organization (ILO) in 1957 when it held a convention on protecting and integrating indigenous people and other ethnic groups in independent countries.
It's indicative that indigenous people are formally recognized and classified as a humanitarian issue that human rights group watching out their situation. However, the humanitarian issue isn't the only aspect that those groups are protected accordingly, there is an environmental consideration as aborigines mostly still live nomadic lifestyle keeping on their natural livestock. If their governments marginalize them, they won't be able to maintain the environment without aids to avoid coercive consumption to these natural resources, because poverty puts them into a position dictate on them using these resources up inappropriately.
For instance, in Latin America, there are over 400 different ethnic groups. Indigenous people make up approx 12 % of the overall population there, this percentage can be estimated nearly 50 million people.
In this region, and although most of Latin countries adopt international covenants on the rights of the native population, those natives still discriminated against and whose identity faces a steep path like racial misgivings of the legitimacy of their existence in their land.
Tracing this issue in the Latin American region, we could find out some shocking facts that native people don't enjoy equality in many fields. For example, their children attend school for a shorter time that non-native, as well as, native children engage in labor more than non-native. In spite of the fact that indigenous congregations in many Latin American countries are allowed to set up political and social campaigns. They, consequently, enjoy integrating their institutions into different spheres of general life, they still encountering various impediments.
Therefore, indigenous people carry the brunt of racial policies are implemented to encircle them off in an attempt has been obvious to eradicate their identity. What happened in September 2007 when the long-awaited UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted with 143 votes, after 20 years of deliberations within the General Assembly. 11 countries abstained and 4 (Canada, New Zealand, the USA and Australia) voted against claiming that this declaration violates their sovereignty.
Ironically, these four countries that voted against are characterized by plurinational and diversity. Furthermore, these decisions that have been taken thus far for raising the grievances of native people are legally not binding, it means that irrespective if the country voted for recognizing aborigins getting them equal civil rights, it finally could be nullified at a certain point which indicates the moral weakness in the international resolution for the rights of indigenous peoples.
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