October 12, 2018
Intervention before the United Nations
ISSUE:
Strengthening the Mandate of the Special Rapporteur
on the
Rights of the Indigenous Peoples of the United
Nations
We call for the reinforcement of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:
In consequence and implementation of the pertinent recommendations formulated by the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in previous sessions, we call for the integration of a formal evaluation and a methodology of the processes of repudiation and dismantling of the racist relic of the Doctrine of Discovery by the government states of the Americas by the Special Rapporteur on each and every one of her official visits to countries whose claims of jurisdiction as successor states to the Doctrine are normalized by the Doctrine of the Discovery of Christendom, the Papal Bulls of Pope Alexander VI Inter Caetera (1493) and the concept of “Original Property of the State” in the Americas.
This is also a context for the urgent call to the international community and all human rights defenders to denounce the legaloid systems of oppression normalized by the so-called national "immigration" legislation policies and practices of the successor states to the Doctrine of the Discovery in the Americas, and their respective international borders. We denounce once again and demand international responsibility and proper prosecution, and not simply "redress" or "reconciliation," even as we did in 1987 before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, for the systemic collusion between the states of North America [NAFTA 1994-USMCA 2018] in violation of the right of self-determination of our Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples, equal to all other peoples.
We denounce once again as we did in 1987 before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, for the systemic collusion between the states of North America [NAFTA 1994-USMCA 2018] in violation of the right of self-determination of our Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples, equal to all other peoples.
In this regard, we pay special attention to the proposed construction of a "wall" along the the line of the border established by the United States and Mexico by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), in violation of right of Free, Prior and Informed Consent as Original Nations of the Indigenous Peoples of Anahuac.
In the same regard, and in defense of the right of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent as Indigenous Peoples we denounce the violation of our Collective Rights as Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth in the processes and proclamation in December 2018 in Morocco of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration.
This preliminary study establishes that the Doctrine of Discovery has been institutionalized in law and policy, on national and international levels, and lies at the root of the violations of indigenous peoples’ human rights, both individual and collective. This has resulted in State claims to and the mass appropriation of the lands, territories and resources of indigenous peoples. Both the Doctrine of Discovery and a holistic structure that we term the Framework of Dominance have resulted in centuries of virtually unlimited resource extraction from the traditional territories of indigenous peoples. This, in turn, has resulted in the dispossession and impoverishment of indigenous peoples, and the host of problems that they face today on a daily basis.
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