Cultural Survival took part in a hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy. The Indigenous speakers in the April 29 hearing explained how U.S. foreign policy is affecting their communities, often in dramatic and disastrous ways.
Indigenous leaders from across Latin America were in Washington on April 29 testifying at a hearing organized by Congressman James McGovern, co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. The Indigenous representatives explained how U.S. foreign policy is affecting their communities, often in dramatic and disastrous ways.
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, organized by the Bolivian government, was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia April 19-22, 2010 as a response to failed climate talks in Copenhagen during the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 15) climate meetings in December 2009.
Mother Earth can live without us, but we can’t live without her.
We, the Indigenous Peoples, nations and organizations from all over the world, gathered at the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Earth, from April 19th to 22nd, 2010 in Tiquipaya, Cochabamba, Bolivia, after extensive discussions, express the following:
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.