| | COMUNICADO URGENTE CONDENA AL USO DEL MAIZ TRASGENICO EN GUATEMALA La Defensoría Maya, organización que hace muchos años viene procurando el mejoramiento de la situación de los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, principalmente del Pueblo Maya, a la comunidad nacional e internacional manifiesta: Su profunda preocupación e indignación ante el anuncio de repartición de maíz trasgénico en Guatemala como parte del Programa Mundial de Alimentos, y que se viene dando en diversas comunidades del Pueblo Maya, principalmente. Su rechazo absoluto a este tipo de decisiones de países poderosos que imponen por la fuerza no sólo alimentos trasgénicos, sino también todo tipo de flaguicidas y otros, que perjudican la salud de cualquier ser humano en el país. El uso de cualquier producto trasgénico produce enfermedades irreversibles en el Ser Humano. Utilizado en Guatemala solamente agravará la salud de la población quien no tiene recursos para curarse de este tipo de males. Exige a las autoridades de turno a que investiguen de manera urgente la situación de manipulación del hambre y miseria del pueblo por parte de instituciones como el PMA, que se aprovechan de la situación de desconcoimiento que prevalece en la mayoría de nuestras comunidades. Exige a las autoridades y gobiernos de la ONU para que cesen de inmediato la utilización de alimentos trasgénicos como parte de las ayudas humintarias a los países que los países ricos han empobrecido durante siglos. Solicita al gobierno de la República para que implemente medidas urgentes para proteger el MAIZ sagrado de los mayas, insustituible en la dieta alimentacia nacional. También a que implemente programas para el desarrollo productivo de maíz nacional y que se prosiga con el programa de repartición de alimentos dándole prioridad a los productos nacionales producidos por los propios Pueblos Indígenas de Guatemala. Anima a todas las organizaciones sociales y comunidades a que se mantengan alertas por este tipo de engaños que se realiza contra la población. No se puede utilizar el hambre de un Pueblo para destruir y trastornar el proceso histórico productivo del MAIZ y de la salud de los habitantes en Guatemala.
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Action Alerts /
Acciones Urgentes:
Final “Anchorage Declaration” from
the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate
Change, April 24th 2009
Action alert from the Karuk Tribe in
N. California --- please help! April 7, 2009
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Stephen Harper of Canada, regarding Canadian policy
on Extractive Industries, March 29, 2009 (PDF 23K)
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(PDF 20K)
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Obama supporting international Treaty banning
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Canada’s Human Rights Record reviewed
by the UN Human Rights Council, statement by
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February 5th 2009
New Brochure: “ Environmental and
Energy Justice in Native America” February 3, 2009
(PDF 832K)
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on January 29th 2009
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1.6MB)
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(PDF 940K)
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Nations for Indigenous Peoples of Maluku, June 6th
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States, Calls for the US to apply the UN Declaration
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244K)
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and Indigenous Peoples, 23-25 March 2009,
Philippines (PDF 47K)
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as a joint CRP for UNPFII8 by UNFAO and IITC (PDF
181K)
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available
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Food, International Organization of Indigenous
Resource Development and the International Indian
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Committee, January 29, 2009
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7th 2009 (PDF 144K)
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session, May 18th - May 29th , 2009
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sobre derechos humanos en Xela Guatemala, invitacion
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26th, 2008 (PDF 272K)
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Human Rights Day December 10th 2008
New IITC
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UN Human Rights Council Expert Mechanism on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples 1st session October 1 –
3, 2008
NEW Indigenous Portal for up to the minute news on
Indigenous Peoples’ work at the UN and around the
world
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for the US to apply the UN Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples (PDF 29K)
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sheet: Pesticides, Tribal Health and Human Rights, North and South
(PDF 111K)
Nuevo: Hoja informativa
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34th Annual Treaty Conference,
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Conference Resolutions/Resoluciones de la
Conferencia
UNPFII 7th
Session, April 21st - May 2nd 2008, Interventions
and Statements
2008
International Indian Treaty Conference, Guatemala,
June 2008 19-22
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Peoples’ Advocacy for a Rights and Culturally-based
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(9.4 MB PowerPoint Presentation)
The UN Declaration on the Rights of
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80K)
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2008
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the United States submitted by IITC January 2008
(PDF 400 KB)
New IITC Brochure
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Assembly September 13th, 2007!
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Assembly September 13th 2007 (PDF 56k)
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on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, September 16th 2007
(PDF 200K)
US
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the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, September 13th
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Link for the
COMMITTEE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
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Commissioner on Human Rights for her study on the
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Pesticides are Poison” booklet now
available online
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ahora disponible en internet
UN Web page, Indigenous Peoples and
Treaties, the UN Treaty Study Expert Seminars
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