61. Indigenous Peoples Seattle Declaration We, the indigenous peoples from various regions of the world, have come to Seattle to Clemente Ibe Wilson, Movimiento de la Juventad Kuna, panama http://csdngo.igc.org/Indigenous/indig_seattle.htm

Indigenous Peoples Indigenous Home I Position Papers I Background Papers Home Site Map Issue Caucuses Major Groups ... Links NGO Position Papers: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' SEATTLE DECLARATION on the occasion of the Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization November 30-December 3, 1999 We, the Indigenous Peoples from various regions of the world, have come to Seattle to express our great concern over how the World Trade Organization is destroying Mother Earth and the cultural and biological diversity of which we are a part. Trade liberalization and export-oriented development, which are the overriding principles and policies pushed by the WTO, are creating the most adverse impacts on the lives of Indigenous Peoples. Our inherent right to self-determination, our sovereignty as nations, and Treaties and other constructive agreements which Indigenous Nations and Peoples have negotiated with other nation-states, are undermined by most of the WTO Agreements. The disproportionate impact of these Agreements on our communities, whether through environmental degradation or the militarization and violence that often accompanies development projects, is serious and therefore should be addressed immediately. The WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AOA), which promotes export competition and import liberalization, has allowed the entry of cheap agricultural products into our communities. It is causing the destruction of ecologically rational and sustainable agricultural practices of Indigenous Peoples.

62. Nicaragua News - NicaNet Hotline - Nicaragua Network News Service Take for example the Plan Puebla panama. indigenous peoples put forward a wealthof ideas, proposals on health, education, infrastructure, tourism. http://www.nicanet.org/hotline.php?id=86

63. Panama The demands of panama s indigenous, he says, reflect the demands of many other spokesman for the National Council of indigenous peoples in panama, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Harvey_Morris/panama.htm

PANAMA'S INDIANS CONFRONT NEW CONQUISTADORES By Jon Mitchell (Dec. 14 1996) PANAMA CITY - When Spanish conqueror Balboa first arrived on the isthmus of Panama looking for land, silver and gold, there were around sixty indigenous groups opposing his presence. Five hundred years later, that number has shrunk to around six. But perhaps for the first time since the Spanish conquest, Panama's indigenous are presenting a united front, with the modern-day conquistadores represented by a Canadian mining company seeking to exploit one of the world's largest copper reserves in the northern province of Chiriqui. And while hard-hats have replaced helmets upon the slopes of the Cerro Colorado mountain range - where the concession is being studied - for the Ngobe-Bugle and other indigenous groups, the mining plan is the latest example that Balboa's spirit lives on in the high echelons of government. "Politically, we are all united on this issue," said Atencio Lopez, an indigenous human-rights lawyer from the San Blas Archipelago. Mr Lopez is of the Kuna tribe, who have historically held more autonomy over their region than Panama's other indigenous groups. Although many of the Ngobe-Bugle living around the town of San Felix and on the concession itself welcome the mine, worries persist over possible environmental problems and how much the community will actually benefit. "We are fighting for a law that guarantees protection of the environment, to reinforce traditional authority, to strengthen our cultural identity and some degree of territorial control," said Marceli no Montezuma, the President of the Ngobe-Bugle, who is spearheading the campaign. Other indigenous groups share his worries and ambitions. Aside from mining activities, logging and ranching also threaten indigenous lands - defined or otherwise. Even the people of Kuna Yala, who were granted strong autonomous powers in 1953, have to frequently defend the limits of their comarca (reserve) against loggers and subsistence farmers. In the past few years these confrontations have become violent, often resulting in gun battles between campesinos and Kunas.

64. Eco-Index: Program To Promote Indigenous Alternative Tourism In Panama The indigenous peoples of panama, like the other indigenous cultures of AbyaYala, have been changing over the centuries, adapting themselves to new http://www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?ProjectID=176

65. Eco-Index: Preparation Of The Regional Map "Indigenous Peoples And Natural Ecosy Preparation of the map on indigenous peoples and Natural Ecosystems in CentralAmerica Finish the national maps for panama, Costa Rica and Honduras. http://www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?ProjectID=442

66. IISD Youth Source Book On Sustainable Development CISA was founded in 1980 as an organization for indigenous peoples organizations panama 1 Republica de panama Tel +50769-6525 / 6526 Fax +507-69-3514 http://www.iisd.org/youth/ysbk146.htm

[previous] [next] [Table of Contents] DIRECTORY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ORGANIZATIONS Assembly of First Nations 55 Murray Street, Suite 500 Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1N 5M3 Tel: +1-613-236-0673 Fax: +1-613-238-5780 Composed of representatives of first nations, their objectives are to share information, develop strategies to address national and regional government policy initiatives as they affect First Nation peoples. CISA Consejo Indio de Sud America Indian Council of South America Apartado Postal 2054 Lima 100 Peru Tel/Fax: +51-14-236-955 CISA was founded in 1980 as an organization for indigenous peoples organizations from South America. CISA's objectives are oriented to reach the recognition and respect for the right to live, justice, development and peace of the indigenous people at the United Nations and National Governments. CISA promotes knowledge and traditional practices on the use, conservation, preservation and sustainable development of natural resources. Confederacion De Nacionalidades Amazonicas Del Peru (CONAP) Brigadier Pumucahua No. 974 Jesus Maria, Lima, Peru

67. Indigenous_people_seattle indigenous peoples Seattle declaration concerning mismanagement of food diversity panama; Chaz Wheelock, Great Lakes Regional indigenous Environmental http://www.ausbcomp.com/redman/indigenous_people_seattle.htm

68. Second International Indigenous Forum On Climate Change As the Delegates of indigenous peoples and organisations convened on the occasion Hector Huertas,panama MesoAmerican indigenous Organizations on Climate http://www.c3.hu/~bocs/eco-a-1.htm

Second International Indigenous Forum on Climate Change DECLARATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ON CLIMATE CHANGE The Hague, November 11-12, 2000 I. PREAMBLE II. CONSIDERATIONS Earth is our Mother. Our special relationship with Earth as stewards, as holders of indigenous knowledge cannot be set aside. Our special relation with her has allowed us to develop for millenia a particular knowledge of the environment that is the foundation of our lifestyles, institutions, spirituality and world view. Therefore, in our philosophies, the Earth is not a commodity, but a sacred space that the Creator has entrusted to us to care for her, this home where all beings live. Our traditional knowledge on sustainable use, conservation and protection of our territories has allowed us to maintain our ecosystems in equilibrium. This role has been recognised at the Earth Summit and is and has been our contribution to the planet's economy and sustainability for the benefit present and future generations. Our cultures, and the territories under our stewardship, are now the last ecological mechanisms remaining in the struggle against climate devastation. All Peoples of the Earth truly owe a debt to Indigenous Peoples for the beneficial role our traditional subsistence economies play in the maintenance of planet's ecology.

69. 19 To 23 July 2004 International Day of the World s indigenous peoples Meeting of the InterAgencySupport Group on indigenous Issues. panama City, panama http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/calendar.htm

70. Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues 2001 – spoke at the Milennium Meeting of indigenous peoples (panama, 78 May,2001) on the problems of indigenous peoples of the North in Russia http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/aboutPFII/members_pavel.htm

71. WGIP98_Report3.htm EVOLUTION OF STANDARDS CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF indigenous peoples An indigenousrepresentative from panama said that most of the development programmes http://www.puebloindio.org/ONU_Docs/Doc_98/WGIP98_Report3.htm

WGIP 98 Report) III. STANDARD-SETTING ACTIVITIES: EVOLUTION OF STANDARDS CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES A Possible future standard-setting activities including principles and guidelines for private sector energy and mining concerns accepted justice system, conflict resolution institutions and other customary laws and practices, and the right to determine and decide priorities for development. The European Parliament Rapporteur on a European Code of Conduct for European Enterprises said the European Union must take greater responsibility for the activities of its Companies in third countries. Because there are more transnational corporations with headquarters in Europe, than in North-America and Japan, and due to the fact that European public opinion will not tolerate double standards where companies working in indigenous lands flout labour or environmental rules which would be illegal in the European Union itself. He said that the development of a model European code of conduct could be one way of approaching the matter. Such a code of conduct could be based on a set of accepted international standards, including ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, to which companies could voluntarily adhere. An indigenous person informed the Working Group about the recent establishment (February 1998) of the World Commission on Dams. She spoke in her capacity as a member of the Comrnission. She stated that this new organ is an independent international commission aiming (1) to review the development effectiveness of large dams; (2) to assess options for water resources, energy and river basin development; and (3) to develop internationally accepted criteria and guidelines for planning, construction, operations, monitoring and decommissioning of large dams. She said that the Commission will work for the next two years through in depth case studies, thematic studies, public hearings and consultations, task forces, panels and meetings to produce an interim report in June 1999 and a final report in June 2000.

72. IND Unit Work Plan The indigenous peoples and Community Development (SDS/IND) is the Bank’s such as the Plan Puebla panama indigenous projects and consultation procedures, http://www.iadb.org/sds/IND/site_3932_e.htm

Inter-American Development Bank Sustainable Development Department Help Home ... Search Indigenous Peoples and Community Development Indigenous Peoples Databank on Indigenous Legislation Strategy and Policy on Indigenous Peoples Involuntary Resettlement ... How to Contact Us IND Unit Work Plan Introduction 2004 Achievements Non-financial Products Financial Products ... Other activities Introduction The Indigenous Peoples and Community Development (SDS/IND) is the Bank’s focal point for defining and implementing the priority areas of social sector reform, poverty reduction and environmentally sustainable growth as defined by the institutional strategy as they pertain to the socioculturally appropriate inclusion of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in the development process. Within the framework of the Eighth Replenishment's focus on poverty reduction and social equity, SDS/IND has the mandate to assist the Bank in ensuring the sociocultural soundness of its operations and policy related activities and playing a proactive role in mainstreaming these issues into the Bank's overall mandate. The Unit focuses on indigenous peoples and other ethnic minority groups, but is also responsible for ensuring the appropriate implementation of the involuntary resettlement policy adopted in 1998. In addition, the Unit is pioneering innovative methodologies for community consultation and participation and addresses broader sociocultural soundness issues

73. Global Exchange : Indigenous Peoples Build Their Own Strategy At The Fourth Summ The first summit of indigenous peoples, also sponsored by the Canadian indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), the Kuna Congress of panama and about http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/argentina/3388.html

Programs in the Americas Africa Americas Argentina Bolivia ... Argentina Indigenous peoples build their own strategy at the fourth Summit of the Americas Indian Country August 09, 2005 Nilo Cayuqueo Preparations for the fourth Summit of the Americas, where the heads of all states in the Americas except Cuba will meet, are underway. It will take place Nov. 4 - 5 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. In the fold of globalization, the heads of state in the Americas, including President Bush, will gather to discuss and sign new economic and political agreements. Led by the United States and Canada, the propagators and driving forces of these summits, it takes place every four years. The first summit was held in Miami in 1994. Also being organized - with economic and political support from the Canadian government, the Assembly of First Nations of Canada and the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Argentina - is the second Summit of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, to take place in Buenos Aires one week before the presidents' summit. The first summit of indigenous peoples, also sponsored by the Canadian government under the theme ''Indigenous Peoples Connecting to the New Economy,'' took place in Ottawa in March 2001 three weeks before the third Summit of the Americas, held that year in Quebec City.

74. Central America Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and panama are allconsidered Other terms used to describe the indigenous peoples are Indians, http://www.cet.edu/earthinfo/camerica/CAdef.html

Pick a Region Central America Adult Literacy Rate: calculation of the percentage of people that are literate. Adult literacy rate, like infant mortality rate, is a measurement of a country's development. This measurement gives an indication of how well a country's wealth is used in taking care of its people. Central American Common Market (CACM): Clear-cutting: the removal of all trees in a given area of forest. This process can be contrasted to more selective logging in which only selected trees are cut down. Clear-cutting can lead to many problems, including soil erosion and loss of animal habitat. Cold War: a struggle between the United States and its allies against the Soviet Union and its allies from 1945 to approximately 1990. Although it did not involve direct fighting between these two sides, Cold War-related violence did break out in other parts of the world. For instance, in Central America, groups receiving aid from the United States fought against those receiving aid from the Soviet Union. Conquistadors: the Spanish explorers that conquered the indigenous peoples in the New World.

75. Alicia Korten - Smithsonian Associates - Story & Values The leadership invited me back to panama and I became the Associate Director My work with indigenous peoples centered on securing their participation in http://www.creatingthe21stcentury.org/Alicia.html

Storytelling Alicia Korten Smithsonian Associates 2003 Introduction Jumpstart Storytelling Values Putting Story to Work ... G. Timeless Leadership Strategies A. CHILDHOOD ENCOUNTERS WITH DIVERSITY I have always been interested in how narratives house the values in diverse cultures and create the communities that enable collaborative action. I remember lying at the foot of my Grandfather’s chair listening to his stories of extraordinary adventures in many different places – how he stowed away on a boat when he was only nineteen; how he arrived in Europe feigning experience as a tour guide to get a job; and how he returned to my home country - the United States - to found a real estate company that developed many houses along the Monterey Peninsula in California. I remember my parents telling me stories of far away places - of riding camels along the pyramids of Egypt and of how my Grandpa was chased by a rhino while visiting my parents in Ethiopia. These stories became my story. They shaped my being. You see, I grew up in many places. I was born in Nicaragua. By the time I was 16 I had lived not only in Nicaragua, but also in the United States, the Philippines and Indonesia. Four profoundly different countries – each with their own norms, their own history, their own traditions. I learned to become highly attuned to subtle cues – to listen for what was spoken and what remained unspoken, to open my ears to those soft whispers that reveal the fabric of a culture – that could guide me as I moved between cultures, moved between lands.

76. Indigenous Peoples' Right To Land - Bibliography AAVV; Human rights violations against indigenous peoples , Amnesty Biobío deChile y la lucha del pueblo indígena Pehuenche , Abisua, panama, julio ’97. http://www.xs4all.nl/~rehue/art/nest1bib.html

Bibliography Back to Index AAVV; Human rights violations against indigenous peoples , Amnesty International, New York, 1992. AAVV; The rights of indigenous peoples , UNHCHR Fact Sheet n. 9, Geneva, 1997. AAVV; El Convenio sobre la Biodiversidad AAVV; , Icavia, Barcelona, 1995. AAVV; Desarrollo, pobreza y medio ambiente; FMI, Banco Mundial, GATT al final del siglo , Talasa ediciones, Madrid, 1994. AAVV; AAVV; AAVV; , IWGIA, Copenaghen,1997. AAVV; Mapuche - Apuntes AAVV; Implementing Agenda 21 , UN Non-Governmental Liason Service, New York, 1997. AAVV; Environmental protection and sustainable development Anaya S.J.; Indigenous peoples in international law , Oxford University Press, New York, 1996. Arregi J.I.; The Inter-American system of human rights , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. Indigenous peoples, a field guide for development , Oxfam, Oxford, 1988. Bowman M., Redgwell C. (edited by); International law and the conservation of biological diversity , Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1996. Human rights approaches to environmental protection , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996.

77. Reporter: Panama held for us a fourday conference on panama s indigenous peoples. We learneda great deal about the challenges of indigenous people, and particularly http://www.reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3113/panama.html

The learning's lush in Panama JOANNA FROSST As one of the 25 students currently involved in McGill's brand new Panama Field Course, my own preconceived notions about the Central American country so often associated with Noriega were almost immediately altered upon my arrival in January. My first morning in Panama, I was greeted by streams of sunlight, singing tropical birds and huge palm trees outside my window. The absence of frost alone was enough to make me smile. The field course, a joint venture between the University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), is a multidisciplinary program combining the biological, sociological and conservation aspects of Panama into a full semester of classes from January 6 to April 9. Each section of the course, taught this year by biology professor Catherine Potvin and adjunct geography professor Gilles Seutin ("Neotropical Environments"), sociology professor Uli Locher ("Humans in Tropical Environments") and agricultural and biosystems engineering professor Bob Bonnell ("Conserving the Neotropics"), is taught both in the classroom at the old Albrook military base and through various field trips. Panama is a beautiful country extremely rich in biodiversity and with a vibrant culture. It provides a perfect setting for this unique and varied course.

78. PANAMA: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE RAISE ALARMS ABOUT ... panama indigenous PEOPLE RAISE ALARMS ABOUT OTC 19.12.97 0247 panama CITY, (Dec.17) IPS indigenous leaders are again raising an alarm against gene http://www.netlink.de/gen/Zeitung/971219b.htm

PANAMA: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE RAISE ALARMS ABOUT ... OTC 19.12.97 02:47 PANAMA CITY, (Dec. 17) IPS - Indigenous leaders are again raising an alarm against gene robbery by unscrupulous scientists among their people, a practice they say is money-motivated and exempt from international agreements on human rights. The first alarm was sounded several years ago when the genes of a Panamanian Ngobe-Bugle woman were patented in the United States as a scientific discovery by two U.S. researchers. The woman, whose name was withheld, was a resident in the Caribbean province of Bocas del Toro. She was a carrier of the HLV2 virus, which is similar to the virus that produces AIDS. Kuna indigenous leader Atencio Lopez has run an international campaign against the "stealing" of genes from native peoples for the last four years. He told IPS the genes were taken from the woman by foreign researchers with the help of local doctors who extracted the blood. The Ngobe-Bugle are carriers of HLV2 but they do not develop the associated illnesses, as they have antibodies which protect them. Lopez explained that as AIDS "is like El Dorado" for the big pharmaceutical transnationals, anything close to the virus "makes them crazy and they will stop at nothing to get hold of and control their formulas."

79. MSN Encarta - Native Americans Of Middle And South America This article uses the terms Native Americans, indigenous peoples, For adiscussion of the indigenous peoples of North America, see Native Americans of http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701509044/Native_Americans_of_Middle_and_Sou

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80. Plan Puebla-Panama The Plan Pueblapanama January 14, 2002 By Lisa Gonsalves Chiapas Support Committee.As if the indigenous people in southern Mexico didn t already suffer http://www.chiapas-support.org/plan_panama.htm

The Plan Puebla-Panama January 14, 2002 By: Lisa Gonsalves Chiapas Support Committee A The basic projects that PPP includes are: the construction of new hydroelectric dams, a boost in gas and oil production, the setting up of new maquilas (factories), the establishment of large scale agribusiness, and the construction and/or renovation of trains and highways, as well as other means of importing and exporting goods. Obviously, this plan is super attractive to big business. The area which PPP covers is extremely rich in natural resources, not to mention that it holds a large pool of unskilled labor. And where has President Fox designated to be the 'central axis' of PPP? Chiapas. The Zapatistas have heavily condemned PPP. In response, Fox has stated, [Zapatismo] "does not have anything to do with Plan Puebla-Panama, except in the case of there being some project which a community does not want to happen through that zone, then we will set it somewhere else. We are not going to fight anyone..Everything IN Plan Puebla-Panama is positive." Let's not forget that in corporate lingo "positive" is synonymous with "high profit," no matter what the price to the people and the land. The PPP is also promoting southern Mexico as a prime spot to set up maquilas (sweatshops) for multinational business. Fox is pitching to employers who are currently set up along the US/Mexico border that they can pay their workers 40% less in salaries than that which they are currently paying their factory workers in northern Mexico. The plan then is to head production south. It is projected that by next summer 92 sweatshops will have moved to the region.

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