En este spot te damos a conocer la Declaración sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas. Esta declaración creó compromiso de los Estados en el cumplimiento de los Derechos Indígenas. Por ello te invitamos a conocerla y promoverla en tu radio comunitaria.

Campaña en apoyo al pueblo Q´eqchi´ de Agua Caliente, Guatemala para demostrar  ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, autoridad pertinente para determinar la responsabilidad del estado de Guatemala por acciones injustas y violatoria de derechos contra la comunidad. En esta campaña se solicita el  apoyo de la sociedad civil y la comunidad internacional para  enviar una carta solicitando que el caso sea inmediatamente tramitado. Con ello se podrá sentar un precedente legal para proteger a todos los Pueblos Indígenas en Guatemala. 

Respaldados por el Derecho Internacional, mostramos apoyo a la comunidad Maya Q´eqchi´ en Agua Caliente, Guatemala como precedente internacional para que se  reconozca a las Comunidades como titulares colectivas de tierras tradicionales. Un derecho que debe ser reconocido por Ley. 

Alta Outcome Document, produced from the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in Alta, Norway on 10–12 June 2013

El documento final de Alta contiene varios asuntos importantes para los pueblos indígenas y las soluciones, incluso de los derechos de la tierra, el aire, el agua y las subsistencias.

Alta Outcome Document WCIP 2014 

The Alta outcome document sets out key issues for Indigenous Peoples and solutions on topics including the rights to land, air, water, and livelihoods. 

In order for this right to be applied fairly, it should respect the following: 1. From the start of a project, there should be a consultation with the Indigenous People of the area; 2. There should be sufficient time devoted to ensuring that the community receive all of the information about the projects and its impacts; 3. Information should be distributed in accordance with the traditional ways of each community; 4. Any form of trying to influence the opinions of the people should be avoided; 5. All the details of decisions taken should be recorded.

In order to ensure that the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent is complied with, there should be community meetings which make people aware of what is happening and could happen in their area. In addition to this, projects must be supervised in order to ensure that decisions made in the community meetings, are implemented during the development project.

It is important to demand that this law is complied with because it protects the environment, guarantees clean water and air, and it is a mechanism of controlling development projects to ensure that truly benefit indigenous communities.

It is important to have all the information about the potential impacts of development projects on the environment, the community and the people. The information should be available in a way in which everyone can understand, and in the native language of the people it will affect.

The negotiation process between the government and Indigenous Peoples should be free of threats, bribes or any manipulation by the government of the decisions of Indigenous Peoples.

The UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples along with other international instruments, recognises the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent as a right of Indigenous Peoples.

Governments cannot store dangerous materials on Indigenous Peoples’ lands without their Free, Prior and Informed Consent.

Article 10 of the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples states that no one can forcibly displace indigenous communities from their territories.