UN expert calls on Argentina to improve living conditions of indigenous groups
A United Nations expert urged Argentina to strengthen its measures to protect the human rights of indigenous groups as well as their rights to land ownership and education, adding that a mechanism to establish dialogue between them and the Government is urgently needed.
“It is necessary that the Government prioritize indigenous issues, develop new programmes and public policies for them, and that it ensure that these are implemented in line with international standards,” said UN Special Rapporteur on indigenous rights James Anaya after his 11-day visit to the country.
“A central preoccupation expressed by indigenous leaders during my visit was the lack of judicial security over their land ownership rights and in particular the various problems and delays they face regarding their properties,” Mr. Anaya said, referring to recent instances where land initially occupied by indigenous groups has been appropriated by the Government.
Many of the land disputes, Mr. Anaya noted, have occurred between indigenous groups and private companies – in particular excavating firms – which have been enabled by judicial authorities.
Mr. Anaya emphasized the “lack of dialogue and participation with the affected indigenous groups before undertaking such projects, and the lack of their role in the decision-making process, as well as of sharing the benefits of the projects resulting from use of their lands.”
During his visit, Mr. Anaya held meetings with several representatives of indigenous communities in various provinces as well as with Government authorities in the capital, Buenos Aires.
Mr. Anaya also stressed the need to give indigenous groups in remote areas access to adequate education that includes bilingual and intercultural exchanges to keep indigenous dialects alive, as well as facilitating the university attendance.
A full report on Mr. Anaya’s visit will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council next year.
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Pity you massacred so many of them then, or is this the way Argentina looks after its' people?
Stealing their land, no judicial security, no or very little education (but I bet they are force fed the Falklands drivel) and no consideration of indigenous dialects, what more can these people expect from Fascists?
Get real.
Yes it's time to recognise indigenous people's rights and way of life.And it is a global issue of the effect of capitalist greed and it would be interesting to read yanqui people's view on the matter,I think
“Three northern Ontario reserves off of James Bay declared a state of emergency in late September because of a housing shortage.
One of them, Attawapiskat, about 500 kilometres north of Timmins, Ont., has resorted to housing people in uninsulated sheds, wood-frame tents heated by wood stoves and donated construction trailers, where some families have been living for two years already.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/24/f-first-nations-infrastructure.html
#5 those “lazy” people, as you call them, had a living by themselves, this government and their “friends” stole it. Are you living in Argentina? I think you are one of those argies living oversea and not knowing what is happening in Argentina, only ready to attack without any sense anything against the actual government in Argentina.
As you seem to have misread the article, it is about ARGENTINA!
Not the Falklands (there are no Malvinas).
Please Mendoza. Secede!
#8 a british would pay to see their own children fight to death for profit, Malvinas Argentina and the birtish illegal aliens being used as ponds against Argentina is a clear example of what I am refering to.
“los hermanos.....”
“PK...ley primera,”
“PK si pelean”
“los......< de afuera.”
if you ask me Argentina and Chile should be one nations but for some reason some stooge called domingo sarmineto from San Juan province help create Chile and now europeans use those lines to divide and have us kill eachother.
#10 I am sure you being 100% native navajo would know all about their better life....and while we at it why can't you trust my words when I say Islas Malvinas are Argentine ??? yankeeboy is a funny name for a native.
I have been to the Falklands and I love remote islands although I would never want to live there. Have you ever been? If so, did you hear anyone speaking Spanish? Did you see any signs in Spanish? I wonder how they could be part of Argentina and not speak Spanish? Hmmm strange.
Have you been to Miami where they Spanish.So what's the point in that drivel of yours.None I can see
Why don't they work.Because they never would for the occupier,and if so doing leads to a parasitic tendency like yours I am with the indigenous people.
That would be taken as weakness by someone like you but that is understood,luckily for the world you are only a posturing stooge
The conditions of the indigenous people is a global problem not simple an argentinian one.But there is more of a problem with occupiers
English is our language here, if you speak Spanish as your primary language you are either traveling or illegally living here.
“Maybe the Argentines could adopt the English policy of sending in the riot police and dismantle the Villas Miserias as happened last month”
You still here? Found a bit of a voice? Squeek Squeek.
“@ 16 do you spend your days in a groggy stupor? hating on a language? ”
I went to a bar like that one time in BA. disgusting. Hating everywhere they were. I had to leave.
“You see, we are like rats”
That's a bit harsh but I do admire your honesty.
“we can reproduce ourselves in ways that you can't”
I think I saw that in that same bar in BA! I felt dirty, ashamed even. no one should witness these things.
Are you a woman? Just curiosity :)
The funny thing is, one went by the name of Pirat-hunter and the other xbarilox. I didn't know they were such common names!
you know, i couldn't be sure what sex they were as both had Moustaches and no front teeth.
I never realised the Porteno's liked their empanada's so much either. I just wasn't prepared for the Empanada surprise trick.
Fish or meat anyone?
#16 UN should come see how the natives in Canada are treated by the racist regime.
#17 in Canada they don't use riot police, they use live ammo to protect a golf field. execution style, or jail a personsal choice police have to make, while the racist courts deliberate to keep a good milking cow for as long as it gives good milk.
#19 lol the problem is not Bs. As. or even Argentina but rather the people you go out with and if you went alone maybe you should go see a psychiatric help, but don't waste your time there is no help for your problem, there is a choice for you called assisted suicide that can cure all the brits, it's a miracle cure I highly recomend it to you.
#20 I heard british say that they usually mate with their brothers or systers, uncles, aunts you know mormon style...the only white Muslim goup, how else do you think they multiplyed in Islas Malvinas Argentina from 100 to 2000 ????
Yankeeboy, Have you deciphered anything yet?
Why am I not surprised it's only a minute? I bet your a real catch for the Argentine Chica's. Do you have a Moustache?
“she sill be turned into a worthless sh*t-bag in an instant”
- Nothing worse than being turned into a worthless Instant t-bag. Mate anyone?
This is the place to be this saturday morning. Remember, 11:45 AM in Argentina, just follow the link:
www.youtube.com/user/casarosada
Good night, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Incidentally words go into dictionaries,they originate in practice as,for example,dude.you use dictionaries to find the accepted meaning of words.
Yankeeboy will just about remember that when he thinks about it,instead of sleeping in cheap hotels in BA.
27. Comrade Yul, your delusional stream of consciousness is pretty hard to follow. BTW do you know the difference between a comma and a period and is your caps key broken? It's too bad but I don't think the grammar will fix the crazy though.
How about more of the history of the native Americans.You can jump to the 1970,s if you wish.Or perhaps their religious practices and how the state funds it like it does others.There so much you could enlighten me on.
By the way,why do you worry about the queen of England ?
Dec 09th, 2011 - 04:33 pm
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#11 if Chile is not happy being apart from Argentina and wants to have more land of Argentina, I think the next time we hear they want to move the line we should use the excuse in Argentina to integrate them to Argentina that way they'll never ask for another part when they can share it all with us. just a friendly warning that goes along with “if you can't beat them join them” politics 101.
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A “friendly warning” which sounds very bizarre and Monty-Phyton-alike though... how do you want to impose this? Sending your piqueteros in front of chilean Leo2 tanks? Use the 30 Aerolineas Argentinas civil planes in dogfight with the 50 chilean F16 Block D jets ?
Really amused how this would look like :)
Can I advise a search on google'define an english person'
The English are the source of the English language, the parliamentary system, common law systems of many countries and a variety of the globe's most popular sports.
Argentinean people: NO featured achievements.
See definition of one ethnic group:
Although a named category “Argentines of European descent” is not officially used, and no official census data exist, some international sources claim that they make up between 82.9% up to 86.4% of Argentina's population.
The current most numerous immigrant European communities are: Spanish, Italian, French, Basque, German, Irish, Ukrainian and Polish, among many others. Arabs and Caucasians (mainly Armenian) are usually considered White population in Argentina.
So, very much a mongrel race then.
At least I can call myself English and be able to prove it: what about you Yuleno?
The purest race is the indigenous
The greediest race the English or the yanqui
Of course judge ChrisR you disagree,what else would one expect.What part of England did Jesus come from
Who gives a damn?
I am an atheist and rely on my own strengths and weakneses to get through life, not some 'Supreme Being' that may, but usually not, help me. As I have said before: it is religeous dogma that has caused most wars throughout history. Now we have the Islamists coming back to the ascendence we in the west and LATAM who are non-believers will be beheaded if they get their way. But hey! ALLAH wants it, so that's alright.
It's like the Falklands (there are no Malvinas), there is no God, Allah or whatever dummy people need to suck on 'to help them through'.
Did you not read my post, or don't you understand the term atheist?
I am British.
Wouldn't you like to know where I am: no chance.
Do you think indigenous people are weak or that religion robbed them of their places ?
“Do you think indigenous people are weak or that religion robbed them of their places ?”
Yes and Yes.
Catholicism consistently subjugated the serfs of every country it reached by the promise of 'you behave in this life and the only true religion will see that you enter the afterlife'. AND IT WORKED whilst the echelon of the despotic religion shagged the young women and grew rich on the gold they could get.
Hypocrits does not cover it.
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