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STORY: UN / SDGS INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
TRT: 02:26
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
16 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:
“In many indigenous territories there is now an increased incursion, in many of their territories, by extractive industries, infrastructure development, agri-business, plantation expansion, and indigenous peoples are either being displaced from their communities, and some of these are even done under the name of achieving Sustainable Development Goals.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:
“Increasing killings, impunity, and criminalization of indigenous peoples for asserting their right to control their territories and resources, and asserting their right to implement their own self-determined sustainable development. And. Just to take an example, Colombia, which has just signed a peace accord for which the president was given a Nobel Prize. The data which came in the reports in the Human Right Council last week, is that every day two indigenous persons are being killed. And these are leaders in their own communities and they are being killed by unknown persons. And this is a, this is just emblematic of what is happening to indigenous people in their territories.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Janene Yazzie, Diné of New Mexico:
“This call that we continue to make for all countries to respect and honour the rights of indigenous peoples is not only beneficial for our communities, it’s beneficial for everyone. As we see that in these conversations and in this move, to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that our countries are not making the advancements that need to be made in time, in order to meet those goals on time, but that they continue to pull away from using the human rights framework in general, in these discussions and in the processes, that they are carrying out.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tarcila Rivera Zea, Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:
“We need to change our mind, our point of view and try to develop an intercultural life for sustainability for all of us.”
17. Wide shot, end of presser
The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, today (16 Jul) said indigenous peoples are “being displaced from their communities, and some of these are even done under the name of achieving Sustainable Development Goals.”
Tauli-Corpuz said “there is now an increased incursion” in indigenous territories by extractive industries, infrastructure development, and agri-business.
The Special Rapporteur also said there are “increasing killings, impunity, and criminalization of indigenous peoples for asserting their right to control their territories and resources, and asserting their right to implement their own self-determined sustainable development.”
She said that according to the data from the Human Right Council recent reports, “every day two indigenous persons are being killed” in Colombia and added “these are leaders in their own communities and they are being killed by unknown persons.”
A member of the Diné tribe of New Mexico, Janene Yazzie, said “this call that we continue to make for all countries to respect and honour the rights of indigenous peoples is not only beneficial for our communities, it’s beneficial for everyone. As we see that in these conversations and in this move, to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that our countries are not making the advancements that need to be made in time, in order to meet those goals on time, but that they continue to pull away from using the human rights framework in general, in these discussions and in the processes, that they are carrying out.”
For her part, Tarcila Rivera Zea, a member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, said “we need to change our mind, our point of view and try to develop an intercultural life for sustainability for all of us.”
