United Nations violates Indigenous Peoples rights with REDD

UN violates Indigenous Peoples’ rights:

UN-REDD violates right to free, prior and informed consent

ONU-REDD viola el derecho al consentimiento libre, previo e informado

Contact: Tom Goldtooth
Indigenous Environmental Network (218) 760-0442 ien@igc.org
Press statement

New York City, New York – “The United Nations is violating Indigenous Peoples rights” denounced Indigenous Peoples attending the 12^th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York, which concluded yesterday. In particular, indigenous leaders condemned UN-REDD for violating their right to free, prior, informed consent, a fundamental principle enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation) is a carbon market offset mechanism whereby industrialized countries and corporations use forests, plantations and land as sponges for their pollution instead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions at source.
“UN-REDD is violating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” stated Chief Betanio Chiquidama, President of the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of Panama (COONAPIP). The traditional authorities of the COONAPIP collectively withdrew from UN-REDD on February 25, 2013. A delegation of COONAPIP meet with the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya at UN headquarters during the Permanent Forum to denounce abuses committed by UN-REDD.
“We call upon all the Indigenous Peoples of the world to proceed with caution and to take the necessary measures to avoid being tricked by United Nations bodies and officials, who have the legal obligation to comply with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” states the COONAPIP resolution on UN-REDD, which COONAPIP delivered to the Special Rapporteur.
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Russell Means 3rd Honoring June 13, 2013

Non-profit mega grants and academic rhetoric: Silencing grassroots people

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com


One of the latest threats to truth is the injection of hundreds of thousands of dollars into non-profits, as private corporations buy up major newspapers.
One of the non-profit funding sources, the Ford Foundation, funds 'Indigenous' organizations with grants of $100,000 to $400,000 or more annually. The Ford Foundation has long been a front for CIA agents, according to Wikipedia.
The Ford Foundation grant database can be searched, by placing words such as 'Indigenous' in the search box.
Sometimes it is not the specific organization at the United Nations that receives direct Ford Foundation funding, but the place of employment of someone in a major role, such as a Rapporteur. 
For example, the University of Arizona Law College Association, Tucson, received three Ford grants between 2009 and 2012 which total $1.75 million for Advancing Racial Justice and Minority Rights. The Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples James Anaya is a law professor at the university. Anaya also said the Ford Foundation was a sponsor of the United Nations conference for Indigenous Peoples hosted at the university in April of 2012.
Within the United Nations organizations, academic rhetoric has become a way to extract funding, including huge global travel budgets. These huge grants may, or may not, result in real assistance, or authentic change for grassroots people.
The academic rhetoric has become a way to silence the real voices in the communities.
The injection of hundreds of thousands of dollars is a means of control, controlling the people and controlling their voices.
Censored News is currently investigating the role being played by a person who previously worked at the CIA, who is now involved in the planning of the UN World Indigenous Conference for 2014, with a planning session underway in Norway in June 2013. 
At the Conference for Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, President Evo Morales envisioned a conference of Indigenous Peoples to carry on the work of Protecting the Rights of Nature. 
A former CIA employee embedded herself in the conference planning process during the session held on Kumeyaay lands near San Diego.
It is unknown yet whether traditional grassroots people will be involved with the conference for 2014.
Search Ford grants: http://www.fordfoundation.org/grants/search
Background on CIA agents using Ford Foundation as a front: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation

Wikipedia on Ford Foundation

Relationship with the United States Central Intelligence Agency

In 1967, the foundation was implicated in a wide-ranging scandal concerning the funding of domestic and international organizations by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).^[28][29] The CIA had been laundering its funds for dozens of organizations and events, and the foundation served as one of its main fronts.^[30] John J. McCloy, the foundation's chairman from 1958–1965, knowingly employed numerous agents and, based on the premise that a relationship with the CIA was inevitable, set up a three-person committee responsible for dealing with its requests.^[31]

Lummi: 'No!' to coal shipments on sacred lands

Mohawk Nation News 'Speedy Gonzales'

SPEEDY GONZALES

Posted on June 1, 2013

Mohawk Nation News

www.mohawknationnews.com 

MNN. May 31, 2013. During the tornado of corruption scandals in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen “Speedy-Gonzales” Harper sped to Peru for a few days. Media failed to report that he went to give “foreign aid” to Canadian mining companies that are committing major human rights crimes against Indigenous people. [Stephen Boyd, May 30/13, The Tyce. Link below].
Last year, Canada invested $6.9 billion in extracting mining, oil and gas in South America. The funds came from the Indian Trust Fund without our consent.

Harper advised, “Genocide them Indigenous and then run like hell!”

Harper landed, said, “Hi!” to the President of Peru and then quickly flew off to Cali to meet with the right-wing Pacific Alliance of Peru, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia. Canada is at the forefront of strategies to kill Indigenous and steal their natural resources worldwide.
Pacific Alliance of right wing regimes [Peru, Colombia, Chile and Mexico] is  well known internationally for human rights abuses against their opponents. 15 civilians were recently murdered by Peruvian police during protests over oil, mining and gas extractions. A couple opposed to Vancouver’s MAG Silver mine was gunned down in Chihuahua, Mexico. Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama mine in Chile commits environmental violations and threats against Indigenous leaders who stand up to paramilitary and mining company aggression in Colombia. The model for “disappearing” enemies was set by CIA backed General Pinochet of Chile in the 1970′s.
Harper gave Peru a $53 million aid package to promote mining security to stand up to Indigenous resistance. Mounties are giving special training in security to Peruvians at UBC’s “Extractive Industries and Development”. They work for Canadian mines with old and new colonial tricks to mow down Indigenous defenders of the land.
53 per cent of Peruvians live in poverty. Mining companies leave behind contamination, labor unrest and social decay. 50% of the 229 social conflicts are related to opposition of resource extraction. Jose de Echave, former vice-minister of the Environment, says Canadian companies are causing mining conflicts and deaths.
Vancouver-based Candente Copper is building a copper mine in northern Peru’s fragile tropical forests. The local Cañaris indigenous people say this would destroy their water and livelihood. By law the government must consult them. To get around the law the government declared the Cañaris as “non-indigenous”. Though 95% voted against the mine, the company is proceeding.
In January 2013 the Peruvian police fired on and tear-gassed about 400 protesting Quechua. At least 25 were injured. A dialogue was set-up. The Indigenous were refused entry into the meeting.
In Peru’s southern Andes, Macusani Yellowcake, a small Toronto-based company, is attacking Indigenous opposition to the the first Peruvian uranium project. Peru has no safety regulations on mining and transportation of radio-active material. Most roads are barely travelable around sheer mountain cliffs. Electricity is almost non-existent and water is scarce. The Quechua herd llamas and grow potatoes. Some selected community “leaders” were bribed to sign agreements with the company.

Pacific Alliance execs: “Thanks for the advice and all that $, Mr. Harper. We’ll be sure to give you some”.

At Barrick’s Lagunas Norte gold mine, in northern Peru, Canadians constantly stir up civil strife. Harper directs Canada’s International Development Agency CIDA to fund and carry out the mining industry’s brutality.
Canadian corporations’ inhumanity is not monitored. Taxpayers and Indigenous funds are financing these human rights abuses. As U2 described the horror: “Midnight, our sons and daughters Were cut down and taken from us. Hear their heartbeat, We hear their heartbeat.” “Mothers of the Disappeared”
Harper’s gift to Peru
Ottawa Citizen on Harper’s on Alliance Pacific
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