News of Note 6/13/25: Amazon Indigenous Leaders’ COP30 Priorities, Expulsion Threats in Paraguay, Indigenous Rights in Malaysia
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Political Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Basin June 2025 (in Portuguese and English, via BHRRC)
"We are more than 500 Indigenous Peoples and more than 188 peoples in isolation, holders of ancestral knowledge that has preserved the world's largest forest, territories that today represent the largest carbon sinks on the planet… There will be no possible future without Indigenous Peoples at the center of global decisions.... We reaffirm the following priorities for COP30:
Recognition and protection of all indigenous territories
Direct financing and financial autonomy
Representation and effective participation
Protection of indigenous defenders
Inclusion of Indigenous knowledge systems
Exploration-free zones in indigenous territories"
CONAMURI Paraguay: Violent Evictions Reveal a Systematic Extermination of Peasants and Indigenous Peoples in Rural Areas (La Via Campesina)
"The peasant community of San Miguel, in the district of Maracaná, Canindeyú, was brutally evicted, and the mayor who had supported the population is now the target of intimidation. The threat of an arrest warrant is hanging over him, as well as over the main community leaders. Meanwhile, the indigenous community of Hugua Po’i, in the district of Raúl Arsenio Oviedo, Caaguazú, faced an imminent threat of expulsion that was momentarily stopped thanks to the social, legal and community pressure organized from the territories.”
Action plan, constitutional protection needed to uphold Indigenous peoples’ rights [in Malaysia] (Aliran)
“Suhakam [Human Rights Commission of Malaysia] is urgently calling upon the government to develop and implement a comprehensive national action plan, alongside explicit constitutional recognition, to safeguard the rights of the Indigenous peoples. These communities have for decades endured systemic neglect, marginalisation and violations of their fundamental rights, particularly concerning land, identity and socioeconomic inclusion. As a core recommendation, Suhakam reiterates its calls for the establishment of an independent national commission on Indigenous peoples, in line with recommendation 18 of the National Inquiry into the Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
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