By Madeline Black
By Madeline Black
On July 12, 2016, Cultural Survival Executive Director Suzanne Benally delivered the following intervention for the Right to Health and Indigenous Peoples, with a Focus on Children and Youth during the 9th Session of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.
Mr. Chair, Distinguished representatives, Indigenous brothers and sisters.
After nearly 30 years of legislation, the Organization of American States (OAS) has adopted a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at its General Assembly meeting in the Dominican Republic from June 13 to 15, 2016. The OAS General Assembly initiated steps towards a declaration in 1989.
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.
