National Latino Congreso calls for Adoption of the UNDRIP

National Latino Congreso of the United States

Resolution 11.04

Adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

http://www.latinocongreso.org/resolutionsapproved.php?id=246

This Resolution was Approved By the National Latino Congreso on Day 3, Sunday, January 31, 2010

El Paso, Texas

Submitted by:   TONATIERRA
 www.tonatierra.org

WHEREAS, The United Nations General Assembly has adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on September 13, 2007, establishing a new systemic standard of recognition, respect, and protection for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the world; and

WHEREAS, The Doctrine of Discovery, emanating from the European invasion and subsequent colonization of the continent Abya Yala [the Americas] has served as an instrument of dehumanization and genocide of the Nations and Pueblos of the Indigenous Peoples of the territories identified as Latin America since October the 12th, 1492; and

WHEREAS, Such Doctrines of exploitation and expropriation of the natural resources and labor of the Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala [the Americas] continue unabated and find their contemporary instruments of expression in the multilateral and bilateral Trade Agreements such as NAFTA; and

WHEREAS, In the process of realizing the National Call to Action and March for Human Rights in Phoenix Arizona on January 16th 2010, a Community Indictment was served upon the office of the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona J.Arpaio (et al), which specified Violations of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as stated in Article 36 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and nations of the Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala;

1. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that organizations represented by delegates of the 2010 National Latino Congreso proclaim endorsement and commitment to the principles of the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People's Adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on September the 13th, 2007; and

2. FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that organizations represented by delegates of the 2010 National Latino Congreso should petition U.S. President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to Act in due haste to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

NAHUACALLI

Embassy of Indigenous Peoples

www.nahuacalli.org

US Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Oversight Hearing on the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
June 9, 2011