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A Venezuelan Indigenous leader who was an opponent of armed groups and illegal mining was shot dead on Thursday in the Amazonas state capital, a non-governmental organization and three people with knowledge of the case said. Virgilio Trujillo Arana, a 38-year-old Indigenous Uwottuja man, was a defender of the Venezuelan Amazon and had set up…
Guam: UNPO petition highlights violations of right to self-determinaton of CHamoru People
On 18 December 2020, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and a leading campaigner for the right to self-determination of the CHamoru people of Guam, Hope Alvarez Cristobal, filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging systematic violation of the right to self-determination of the CHamoru people by the government of the United States of America. At the heart of the petition was the refusal of the US federal courts to allow a non-binding referendum of the native inhabitants of Guam on their status.
Guam is currently a U.S.-administered non-self-governing territory, whose decolonization process has been obstructed for over a century in violation of international law. Inhabited for over 3,500 years by the indigenous CHamoru people, Guam’s native inhabitants have suffered numerous harms since the United States took colonial control, including