Indigenous groups demand world interest

[struggle4progress]

By NICK WADHAMS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

UNITED NATIONS -- Turban-clad tribesmen and monks in saffron robes joined indigenous groups from around the world Friday in demanding that their home countries and the United Nations take their interests into account in the push to spread education and eradicate poverty.

The demands were adopted at the end of a two-week forum in a colorful scene in a cavernous U.N. chamber: the tribesmen from the Sahara mingled with the Buddhist monks who sat across from ethnic Quechua in conical hats draped with puffy pink and blue tassels.

The forum focused on two key U.N. development goals for 2015 - cutting in half the number of people living in extreme poverty and achieving universal primary education. Reaching the goals will be high on the agenda at a summit of world leaders called by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in September.

Indigenous groups wanted to make sure that governments don't rob them of their culture and history - or their right to speak their own language - in efforts to achieve the goals. They also called for national and international action to address ongoing human rights violations against native peoples. <snip>

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=UN%20Indigenous%20Rights

[SpiralHawk]

1. Listen up, people of Planet Earth

They were primarily talking about our collective survival (all of the human beings) on our home planet, though that is not reflected in this report. Much insight was shared this past 2 weeks in New York, and many connections made which will result in good.

[Robbien]

2. I hope you are right

With everything that is going on lately it is hard not to be a glass half empty type person.

[donsu]

3. kick

nt

[sintax]

4. The remainig pockets of biodiversity

correspond precisely and without exception to the remaining pockets of Indigenoue People.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
--Cree Indian Proverb

[sintax]

5. Kick