January 18, 2015
Professor Megan Davis
Professor Megan Davis
Expert Member, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Dear Professor Davis,
Dear Professor Davis,
Good
greetings. Relevant to the call for a
study into cross-border issues by the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
during its 13th session (2014) which you are conducting, may we submit the
following for your consideration.
It is fundamental to extract intellectually and independently assess the parameters of evaluation under which the UNPFII shall realize the study into cross-border issues with full acknowledgement of the dual mandates under which the UNPFII has been called to recognize as consequence of the principle "Equal to all other peoples" established by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples since 2007.
This principle and clarification is necessary
and called for by the new paradigm in international relations mandated by the
UNDRIP, and the redefinition for standards of international diplomacy in
relation to Indigenous Peoples that the Permanent Forum must exemplify and
implement as lead programme for the UN system.
In
terms of cross-border issues impacting the Human Rights and Territorial Rights
of Indigenous Peoples affected by the international border between the US and
Mexico established by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and subsequent
political and commercial agreements, we reference our submission to the UNPFII
Tenth Session (2011)
We
call on the UNPFII to engage in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and the
International Labor Organization (ILO) to conduct a study and submit a report
to the UNPFII at its 11th session in 2012 on the implications and relevancy of
the Preliminary Study on the impact of the Doctrine of Discovery as relates to
the international obligations and processes codified in ILO Convention C169
with respect for the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous
Peoples. In terms of processes of accountability for violations of these
rights, perpetrated systematically by the imposition of international borders
of government states on the territories of our Indigenous Nations, we recommend
that specific focus for the study should be evaluation of the impact from local
to regional, regional to continental, continental to global scales of ecology
of the Natural World and our shared responsibilities as defenders of the Human
Rights of the Future Generations and the Rights of Mother Earth.
and
Open Letter to the Ministers of State and the Public Societies of Canada-US-Mexico
Finally,
may we also now submit for your consideration our original submission in 1987 as Tlahtokan Izkalotl Aztlan Traditional Nation to the
UN Human Rights Commission regarding these issues.
Thank
you for your kind consideration.
Tupac
Enrique Acosta, Yaotachcauh
Tlahtokan
Nahuacalli
TONATIERRA
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YouTube:
YouTube:
Abya Yala and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo—The Scars of Colonization:
Perspectives on Citizenship, Nationality, Kinship and Territory from the Continental Indigenous Movement of Liberation of Abya Yala,
Perspectives on Citizenship, Nationality, Kinship and Territory from the Continental Indigenous Movement of Liberation of Abya Yala,
Tupac Enrique Acosta
