United Nations: Australian Aboriginal children seized, 'green energy' impacts worsen for Saami

Systematic racism in Australia means that Aboriginal children are being seized from their families, children that are later the victims of a system that results in high rates of child incarceration in Australia's prisons, a representative told the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples this morning. Screenshot by Censored News.

United Nations: Australian Aboriginal children seized, 'green energy' impacts worsen for Saami 

Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 9, 2024

GENEVA -- Australian Aboriginal children continue to be seized from their families by the government, and the situation for Saami in Norway is worsening because of 'green energy' projects, Indigenous representatives told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples today.

Both Norway and Australia had country engagements with the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during the past year, but Australian Aboriginal and Saami representatives said today that conditions are not improving.

Urgent Plea from Guatemala

Deb Haaland doesn't care about the yellow-billed cuckoo: Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache make appeal in letter

 

Yellow-billed cuckoo. Photo National Geographic

Deb Haaland doesn't care about the yellow-billed cuckoo: Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache make appeal in letter

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 9, 2024

SAN PEDRO VALLEY, Arizona -- Deb Haaland doesn't care about the yellow-billed cuckoo. She doesn't care about the migratory birds traveling north who enjoy the water and trees here. Haaland doesn't care that the bulldozers for SunZia's transmission line, taking wind energy to California, are destroying an ancient village site of the ancestors of San Xavier O'odham.

The federal court failed to stop her, so Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations appealed to Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, in a letter on Monday.

U.N. Expert Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples Begins in Geneva

Photo courtesy Indigenous Peoples Rights International

The Expert Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples began today in Geneva with a discussion of implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

By Indigenous Peoples Rights International, Censored News, July 8, 2024

The 17th session of EMRIP is July 8 -- 12, 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland

The collective spirit of struggle fueled the start of #EMRIP!  Today we discussed  important issues: how States have implemented laws to achieve UNDRIP's ends and the status of Indigenous peoples' rights in post-conflict situations  Undoubtedly, we Indigenous peoples have pushed for many achievements, but many States continue to refuse to recognize our collective being and rights to land and territory.

Dine' Klee Benally 'Violence against the land is violence against the people'

Dine' Klee Benally. Video by SubMedia https://vimeo.com/978417283

"Violence against the land is violence against the people"

Dine' Klee Benally: Colonialism, police and genocide in the U.S.

Klee speaks on how colonialism, capitalism and police are part of the dynamic affecting violence against women and the destruction of sacred places, and the roles of Treaties and sovereignty.

Klee shares the Indigenous way of being and peacemaking in parallel to police and prisons, and the need for the restoration of traditional Indigenous systems for healing.

Watch the video, in English, with new French subtitles by Christine Prat. Klee passed to the Spirit World in December. https://vimeo.com/978417283

Klee's book, finished shortly before his passing, can be ordered at Detritus Books.

"No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred"

https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred