Resolution in Support
of the United Nations Declaration
On the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
WHEREAS, The United Nations General Assembly
has adopted the United Nations 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 UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples was approved by the National Latino Congreso on January 31, 2010 in El Paso, Texas and
has been endorsed by hundreds of
Native American, Latino and progressive community organization across
this country; and
WHEREAS, On November 5, 2009 at a historic summit in
Washington, DC hosted by President Barack Obama, Chairman Joe Kennedy -
Timbisha Shoshone of the Western Shoshone Nation, delivered a message on behalf
of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of North America calling for immediate
action by the president to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples; and
WHEREAS, The Doctrine of Discovery, emanating from the European invasion and
subsequent colonization after 1492, of the continent later to be known as the Americas
has served as an instrument of dehumanization and genocide of the Indigenous
Peoples and Nations of the Americas; and
WHEREAS, Such Doctrines of exploitation and
expropriation of the natural resources and labor of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations
of the Americas continue unabated to this day and find their contemporary
instruments of expression in the multilateral and bilateral Trade Agreements
such as NAFTA; and
WHEREAS, During the March for Human Rights in
Phoenix Arizona on January 16th 2010, a Community Indictment was served upon
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona which specified numerous violations
of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as stated in Article 36 of the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
1. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Arizona Democratic Party adopts endorsement
and commitment to the principles of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on September the
13th, 2007; and
2. FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that Arizona Democratic Party send a
letter to President Barack Obama and to all members of the Arizona Congressional
Delegation to encourage them to adopt as soon as possible the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
Summitted
on March 11, 2012
USMCA and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Open Letter to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
NAHUACALLI
Embassy
of Indigenous Peoples
