Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 23, 2024

Indigenous Urge Investigation of COVID Vaccines at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues


Calling for an investigation into COVID vaccines, during the U.N. Permanent Forum on Tuesday.

Indigenous Urge Investigation of COVID Vaccines at United Nations 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 23, 2024

NEW YORK -- Indigenous Peoples urged an investigation into COVID-19 vaccines, during the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Tuesday, now in its second week at U.N. Headquarters in New York.

The Russian Federation denied human rights abuses, which brought a strong response from those in exile and those recalling the genocide of Crimean Tartars.

Indigenous youths called out for support for children and youths who are victims of foster care systems, boarding schools and displacement around the world.

The Global Solutions Alianza: Project People Initiative, which called for an investigation into COVID-19 vaccines, began by addressing the issues of health and supporting the World Health Organization's Global Action Plan for the health of Indigenous Peoples.

There is a need to eliminate institutional racism and discrimination and stop the  criminalization of indigenous peoples who seek to exercise traditional health practices.

The Initiative recommended that the United Nations Forum and other agencies ensure Indigenous peoples concerns, arising from the COVID-19 response, are meaningfully incorporated into WHO's action plan development.

This includes concerns that governments exploited the pandemic to justify sacrificing Indigenous Peoples rights to land, territories and resources, often in the name of protecting national economic security.

The Indigenous Initiative urged a transparent interrogation of the safety and effectiveness of Big Pharma's medical treatments, as increasing claims of significant events are arising from COVID injections.

Speaking on the climate crisis, the Initiative said the compelling evidence, including Congressional whistleblowers' testimony, reveals that certain intelligence and military agencies and private entities have hidden knowledge of non-human alien technology.

"This is profoundly significant because many Indigenous Peoples' origin stories, prophesies and other ancestral knowledge mentions our cosmic and inter-dimensional relatives, therefore these revelations indicate us."

"The so-called green solutions, false solutions, to the climate seriously erode Indigenous Peoples self determination, environmental and other and human rights."

The Initiative said that non-human technologies that are truly clean, renewable, can eliminate poverty, disease and much more.

The Initiative called for the urgent global disclosure of non-human knowledge and technology, pointing out that this would be reactivating an attempt to do the same in 1978.

Indigenous youth describes global crisis for Indigenous children and youths at U.N. Permanent Forum. Screenshot by Censored News.

Indigenous youths endure the violence of the foster care system in the U.S., the loss of their families, culture and languages by boarding schools and residential schools in the U.S. and Canada.

Assimilation, displacement and colonization are leading to the loss of the precious resource of Indigenous youths around the world, including those in Palestine and Africa, an Indigenous youth told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

The United States was urged to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child to ensure the rights of children and youths.

An Indigenous in exile describes desperate conditions in Russia at the U.N. Permanent Forum.
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The Russian Federation said the colonization of Indigenous Peoples is a concept of western governments, not Russia. Russia was never a part of the idea of a supreme people, Russia's government representative told the U.N. Forum.

"It is a western concept."

The Russian Federation cited a report from the U.S. Interior Department in 2022 regarding boarding schools in Alaska. It says that Russia left behind an Indigenous population in Alaska that was nearly universally literate and participated very actively in all tiers of social and economic life, which was the same in Siberia and in the Far East, where Russia introduced literacy, Russia told the U.N., as it defended its treatment of Indigenous Peoples.

However, an Indigenous forced into exile said Indigenous Peoples in Russia are facing genocide. Describing forced removal, he told the Permanent Forum that Indigenous Peoples in Russia are viewed as an obstacle to get at their natural resources for extraction.

Reading from a letter from Siberia on the desperate conditions of Indigenous Peoples in Russia, he said, "Indigenous People are put on the brink of destruction."

Suleiman Mamutov from the Ukraine, a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum, described the brutal ethnic cleansing of his people, the Crimean Tartar people, by Russia.

Responding to the comments by the Russian Federation, he said the European colonization carried out throughout the world is no different from what Russia has done. Mamutov said his people too were put into boarding schools, similar to those in other countries, and it was aimed to strip away their language and culture.

With his voice filled with grief, he said his people were denied their right to live in their ancestral homeland and were forcibly removed more than 2,000 miles away, costing  100,000 lives.

"It is the reality of genocide and colonization," Mamutov said, calling for global solidarity for those who suffer from this colonial legacy.

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NPR: U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190390376/ufo-hearing-non-human-biologics-uaps


COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals

U.S. National Library of Medicine

Abstract
Background: The Global COVID Vaccine Safety (GCoVS) Project, established in 2021 under the multinational Global Vaccine Data Network™ (GVDN®), facilitates comprehensive assessment of vaccine safety. This study aimed to evaluate the risk of adverse events of special interest (AESI) following COVID-19 vaccination from 10 sites across eight countries.

Conclusion: This multi-country analysis confirmed pre-established safety signals for myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Other potential safety signals that require further investigation were identified.


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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38350768/


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Freedom for Leonard Peltier, Arrest of Buddhist Monks and Amazon Lead Issues at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues



Freedom for Leonard Peltier, Arrest of Buddhist Monks in Vietnam, and Defense of the Amazon Lead Issues at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 22, 2024

NEW YORK -- "Leonard Peltier should come home and be with his great grandson and teach him songs, and what he has left of his life should be spent at home," Nathan Phillips, Omaha, Deer Clan, told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York on Monday, as the second week of the session began.

"Leonard Peltier stood up for the people," Phillips said, and asked the U.N. Permanent Forum to write a letter to Coleman Prison and ask for a compassionate release for Peltier. Phillips said Peltier is sick, is 79 years old, and has spent more than 40 years in prison.

"They really don't know who committed the crime that he's in there for, and now his eyesight is really bad. He might die in there, and that would be death by incarceration," Phillips said during the interactive dialogue on Monday.

"The FBI admitted that they didn't know who did that, so they should let him go," he said, adding "the FBIs didn't have no business up there."

Nathan Phillips, Omaha, speaking today at the UN Permanent Forum. Screenshot Censored News.

Phillips began by responding to the concerns voiced at the Permanent Forum concerning the treatment of women.

"Our men are in desperate need of healing, what we're doing to the women, that's not how we used to be." Phillips said the "extraction industry came in and took away our manhood. We have to figure out how to come back to our original instructions."

Years ago, when the Yanomami stood up against the gold miners, and were murdered, Phillips said he went to Brazil's Embassy in Washington with Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney, who fought against the nuclear industry on his lands.

The Ambassador for Brazil told Phillips, "If you keep doing this, you're going to wind up like your friend Leonard Peltier."

Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation on Monday.
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The Arrest of Buddhist Monks in Vietnam

The government of Vietnam is hypo-critical of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and undermines the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam, a representative of Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation told the U.N. Permanent Forum.

Human rights defenders are constantly harassed when educating the community about human rights.

Thirteen human rights defenders have been criminalized and are detained or imprisoned, an all time high for Vietnam, she said. This includes Monks, women, youth and men who have been reported and publically arrested for their activism.

Five Buddhist Monks were defrocked and disrespected in violation of Article 11 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

One of those arrested was part of the International Women's Day event and was sentenced to two years in prison. Indigenous women are the most vulnerable, especially farmers.

"Our people should not be fearful or threatened."

The government of Vietnam was quick to respond and deny the statement, calling it misinformation that was divisive, and undermining its sovereignty. The government said it is upholding "ethnic minority rights."

Waorani from Ecuador's Amazon speaking at UN Forum on Monday. Screenshot Censored News


Waorani of the Ecuadorian Amazon told the U.N. Forum that their rivers are polluted, and the devastation by the oil industry has impacted the women the most, and affected their ability to carry out their traditional way of live, including gathering their medicine plants.

During the interactive dialogue on Monday, the Sami Council pointed out that too often, Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations are only respected in empty words, not action.

"We are not the problem, we are the solution."

As with Vietnam, the governments of Tanzania and Indonesia were quick to deny the statements presented by Indigenous Peoples in their countries, both governments denied human rights abuse. The governments said they are not discriminating and are upholding human rights.

The government of Vietnam identifies the peoples of the MeKong Delta as "ethnic minorities," not Indigenous Peoples.

The government of Pakistan said all of its people are Indigenous and they have no colonized settlers.

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Arrest of Buddhist Monks in Vietnam

Arrests include charges of "posting slandering and insulting videos on social media and charged with 'abusing the rights to democratic freedom," reports Radio Free Asia.




The Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation is calling on UN Secretary General
to urgently act against #Vietnam's persecution of the Khmer Krom community

Ecuador's Waorani in Amazon

"The Waorani are Ecuador’s most recently contacted Indigenous group. Starting in the late 1950s, missionaries and oil exploration workers contacted the Waorani in the rainforest, leading to decades of oil exploitation, territorial displacement, and cultural colonization. Today, some 2,000 Waorani remain in their Amazon territory in northeastern Ecuador, including some Waorani tribes that continue living in voluntary isolation in the Zona Intangible," reports Mongabay.

"On Sunday, August 20th, 2023, in a historic referendum held during the first round of the presidential elections, Ecuadorian citizens massively voted in favor of keeping over 726 million barrels of oil underground in the Yasuní National Park deep in the northern Amazon Rainforest, one of most biodiverse regions on the planet and home to two of the world’s last Indigenous communities living in voluntary isolation."

This protects the ancestral homeland of the Waorani people and their relatives living in voluntary isolation, the Tagaeri and Taromenene communitiesBy banning oil extraction in this area of the Amazon, 345 million tons of carbon will also be prevented from releasing into the atmosphere, reports Amazon Frontlines.

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April 21, 2024

Canada Failing Youths and Survivors of Residential Schools, Indigenous Youths Tell United Nations

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Canada Failing Youths and Survivors of Residential Schools, Youths Tell United Nations By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 22, 2024

NEW YORK -- "Canada continues to fail to take up solutions from survivors and Indigenous youths to address the legacy of the residential school system," a coalition of community-based Indigenous youth groups told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Indigenous community-based youth groups in so-called Canada voiced an urgent need to have their collective rights respected for cultural and language revitalization, and climate justice, in the face of ongoing environmental racism, land and cultural dispossession and "Canada's willful disregard of traditional government systems."

The youths urged implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation's Commission's Call to Action 66 for multiyear funding for community-based youth groups organizations, to deliver programs on reconciliation and establish a national network to share best practices.

The youths stressed the need to have a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.



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The Red Nation -- Albuquerque Teacher Cut off Braid, Verbally Assaulted Student: Pack the Courtroom




MCKENZIE JOHNSON V. BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND MARY JANE EASTIN

On October 31, 2018, two Indigenous students at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico were assaulted by their teacher, Mary Jane Eastin. One student, had roughly three inches of her braid cut off, and McKenzie Johnson was called “a bloody Indian.”

Pack the Courtroom: Monday, April 29, 2024, 10 a.m.
Central New Mexico Community College, Smith Brasher Hall, 717 University Blvd., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106

By The Red Nation, Censored News, April 21, 2024

On October 31, 2018, two Indigenous students in an Advanced Placement literature class at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, NM were assaulted by their teacher, Mary Jane Eastin. One student, who asks to remain anonymous, had roughly three inches of her braid cut off, and McKenzie Johnson was called “a bloody Indian.”