'Fighting for Our Lives' Indigenous Voices from UN Climate Summit in Egypt

'Fighting for Our Lives' Indigenous Voices from UN Climate Summit in Egypt

Article by Brenda Norrell

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They came from drought-stricken Africa and from the villages in the Amazon, where their rivers and forests are under attack. They came from the Pacific, where they battle military waste. They came from the United States where oil and gas wells are now leading the world in dangerous emissions.

Indigenous came from around the world, with the ancestral knowledge and wisdom of climate solutions. Their voices, and protests, echoed around the world.

Ativista indígena, presidente do Instituto Indígena do Tocantins,
artista visual e cantora no grupo Indaçú.

"I come from a beautiful place where nature shows its wise harmony," said this Indigenous activist from the Amazon in Brazil. "Sometimes the wind comes and whispers in my ear, Do not be afraid you are not inferior to anyone. You are not superior to anyone."

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EGYPT: Dineh Chili Yazzie 'Indigenous Perspective and the Climate Crisis'

Chili Yazzie with Bill Erasmus, former Dene National Chief in Egypt

INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

By Chili Yazzie

Dine' of Shiprock, New Mexico

Presented to the UN Climate Summit COP27

November 10, 2022, in Egypt

French translation by Christine Prat at:

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7537
As Indigenous people we have remained on the lands we are original to; remaining intrinsically connected to our lands. The Indigenous Perspective as it speaks to land, water, all of nature is an understanding, an innate realization, an honoring of the sacred reality that the Earth Mother is a spiritual living entity beyond her physical nature. This recognition requires observance to assure the continuum of life; our Indigenous observance through prayer, song and ceremony are constant.

Speaking for the Water -- Indigenous Water Protectors Speak for the Children and Rivers

Indigenous at COP27: Speaking out for climate Justice 

Emem Okun of Kebetkache women and member of Grassroots Global Justice's delegation to COP 27 shares her experiences enduring polluted water in her community in the Niger Delta in Nigeria on a panel of Indigenous leaders.

Speaking for the Water -- Indigenous Water Protectors Speak for the Children and Rivers

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Video of Panel

Translated into French by Christine Prat at:

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7545

Ponca children have asthma and are using inhalers because of the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma, which is now a massive crime scene. In Kenya, children dig for water before going to school. In Nigeria, the water is poisoned by oil and gas wells and fracking and women and children are suffering. 

Speaking during a panel at the United Nations Climate Summit in Egypt, Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, said she lives in the Occupied Territory of Oklahoma.

"Mass murderers called fossil fuel industries are there to kill us and nothing more," Casey said during an Indigenous Climate Action Panel, after leading a Water Ceremony in the morning.

COP27 Draft Fails to Recognize Role of Environmental Human Rights Defenders

Indigenous Lenca water protector Berta Cáceres was killed in March 2016, less than three months after the COP21 climate summit, for her opposition to the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River in Honduras. Photo by Carlos Castro.

COP27 draft declaration fails to recognize role of environmental human rights defenders

Published by Brent Patterson

Peace Brigades International Canada

November 17, 2022

The just-released 20-page draft of the final declaration of the COP27 summit fails to reference environmental human rights defenders.

The UN Human Rights Council has affirmed that “human rights defenders, including environmental human rights defenders, must be ensured a safe and enabling environment to undertake their work free from hindrance and insecurity, in recognition of their important role in supporting States to fulfill their obligations under the Paris Agreement.”