Thursday, 17 December 2020, 8:26 am
On the 72nd International Human Rights
Day
Rights are earned through hard-fought
struggles. And for Indigenous Peoples (IP), its fulfillment
comes from the collective and continuous defense of
ancestral land and territory, and assertion of their ways of
life and the right to self-determination.
As the
pandemic ravages and the global crisis deepen, the world’s
superpowers and the oppressive governments and systems
continue to intensify widening inequality. Exacerbated
neglect and discrimination to their access to health and
basic services has been a grave threat to the 476 million
Indigenous Peoples across the globe the tip
of the iceberg of today’s social