States Fail to Adequately Address Climate Change: An Indigenous Peoples’ Analysis of COP26 Decisions
Proyecto “Entrenando Mujeres Indígenas para la Defensa de sus Derechos Humanos”
Guatemala, México y Honduras
ÚLTIMA FECHA PARA APLICAR: 22 DE ENERO DE 2021
Sobre la organización y el proyecto
One year ago, on December 15, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the United States would “lend its support” to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “The aspiration it affirms,” he said, “including the respect for the institutions and rich cultures of Native peoples, are one we must always seek to fulfill.”
In the shadow of the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, many people failed to recognize another significant event. Four years ago, on September 13, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly signed into existence the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
By Bryan Bixcul (Maya-Tz’utujil), SIRGE Coalition Global Coordinator
By Mariana Kiimi Ortiz Flores (Ñuu Savi/Mixteca, CS Staff)
With Native American Heritage Month well underway and Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning occurring today, let us celebrate Indigenous brilliance, honor, and acknowledge the truth in history, recognize whose land we are on, and work towards true allyship.
Indigenous Peoples’ collective closing statement at COP30, delivered by Diana Chavez Vargas of Ecuador.
Thank you, Chair,
The Amazon, our home is the next global oil frontier.
Indigenous Peoples are under attack.
We face colonial militarization of our territories, where states and corporations trade our lives for fossil fuels, transition minerals, and large-scale renewables.
We stand in solidarity with our Amazonian relatives and condemn the killing of land defenders. This was mirrored by the heavy militarization of this COP.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
