Monday, July 29, 2019

Mexico: Trivializing consultations does not respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples


Francisco López Bárcenas
La Coperacha


For the AMLO government, the indigenous communities have already authorized the Interoceanic Corridor, which is now published in the National Development Plan.

Mexico City July 26, 2019

The Federal Government has published the National Development Plan in the Official Gazette of the Federation which states that the indigenous communities have already been consulted and accepted the “Interoceanic Multimodal Corridor”.

The document states that the consultations were held “in accordance with constitutional articles 1 and 133, article 6 of the International Labor Organization Convention and articles 19 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples "

Interviewed in this regard, the indigenous law expert Francisco López Bárcenas said that:
"the government has trivialized the right to consultation."

For the researcher of Mixtec origin, "the consultations made by the government serve to legitimize a decision already made previously, which is serious in a government that is talking about respecting the rights of indigenous peoples."

With this, he added, "the federal government is sending a message to the people, it is saying that it will not respect their rights," as Huexca saw, "the message is very serious," he reiterated.

Given this, Bárcenas proposed three scenarios:

"It is likely that the communication channels that the government should have with the Indigenous Peoples are being closed and that is very unfortunate because we are going to have a lot of violence." In addition, the judiciary will be tested to see if the rule of law will be respected and if it has the will to restore violated rights.

The scenario with the people, the journalist and writer also said, is a strategic legal defense supported with popular blockades and mass mobilizations.

"If the judges act impartially and apply the law as is required, the government will be forced to accountability. The government of AMLO will have to reveal the scheme of the consultations and annul them as violations of the right of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent."

López Bárcenas identified some of the violations of international standards presented by the AMLO indigenous consultations, including carrying them out in one day, when the standards pose a minimum time frame of three to six months, "it must be a process, a dialogue."

Instead the AMLO government called an assembly, presented information to the people, collected some demands and then  took that event as a formal consultation, López Bárcenas described.
"Here we already have a published National Development Plan that says that the project is going to be built, and that consultations with the Indigenous Peoples have occurred, but we haven’t even seen the project plans," he said.
 

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Monday, July 22, 2019

V World Indigenous Law Conference - WILC 2020


World Indigenous Law Conference - WILC 2020

Conferencia Mundial de Ley Indígena

Cauca, Colombia




Trajectory: 

The World Indigenous Law Conference (WILC) was initiated with the first convocation in Aotearoa [New Zealand] in 2012, followed in 2014 with the second WILC in Australia. With a projected convening every two years, the next conference was held in Irvine, California in 2016, and the most recent was realized at the University of Windsor, Ontario [Canada] in November 2018.

The World Indigenous Law Conference (WILC) has the character of being a conference at the level of global geopolitics that has been created and organized by the Indigenous Peoples themselves, outside the structures of the states, but in collaboration with the different education systems such as the universities and centers of knowledge of the Indigenous World. The conference has served as a space for meeting and sharing among indigenous jurists such as lawyers, judges, and human rights defenders to strengthen their professional organizations and expand towards an inclusive global horizon in the struggle for justice for the Original Nations of Mother Earth.

The dynamic of the conference has functioned to clarify, analyze, discuss and comment on the legal bases of two systems: The Indigenous Law of OrigiNations and the systems of jurisprudence of the states in the current geopolitical context. A fundamental criterion of the WILC is the full recognition of the right of self-determination of Indigenous Peoples, equal to all other peoples of the world. Consequently, with each WILC there has been a fundamental need to confront the legaloid tactics of the states that perpetuate the normalizing and the institutionalization of illegal colonization and dispossession in each jurisdiction of each country, in violation of Indigenous Law and contemporary Human Rights standards and principles.

To carry out this process of debate, analysis, the articulation of argumentation, the sharing of experiences and strategies in an environment of indigenous solidarity and collective understanding, the cultural context of the indigenous worldview is always part of the design of the event. The workshops and plenaries are then organized around a central theme particular to each conference.

As is evident, all the conferences until now have taken place in English speaking countries. Consequently, the WILC debates and contributions have focused on the history of our Indigenous Peoples with the colonizing systems derived from the Common Law of England while the history of the Indigenous Peoples confronting legal institutions of the states founded in the Roman Civil Law, such as the countries of Latin America, has been ignored.

In order to extend and integrate the legal struggles of the Indigenous Peoples of the South, in the third WILC conference of 2016 in Irvine, California, the representation of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca - CRIC [Colombia] was invited to participate. It was at this third WILC of 2016 that it was proposed to take the 2020 conference to Colombia. In 2018, the representatives of the CRIC once again joined the WILC in Canada and were presented with the Ceremonial Bundle of the WILC, with the responsibility of convening and organizing the event in 2020.

The trajectory and processes of the World Indigenous Law Conference have had an organic development that emerges from the Jurisgenesis, Jurisprudence, Jurisdiction and Judgment of the Original Nations of Mother Earth. The common front is the fight against colonization, against genocide and in defense of Human Rights and the Territories of our Indigenous Peoples. In the case of the continent of Great Turtle Island Abya Yala [Americas] in particular, a strategic basis and methodology has been developed to advance across the continent in the Dismantling of the Doctrine of Discovery.

The WILC as global geopolitical process has revealed that comparable to the system of the states, which has a planetary projection through the systems of International Law and the institution of the United Nations, the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples also express and form of planetary jurisdiction in legal terms as Indigenous Peoples with collective responsibility in the defense of the Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth.
 
Without responsibility there is no right, and in a time of a global climate crisis that threatens the future of all humanity, the responsibility of the Indigenous Peoples to provide hope for life with justice and in harmony with Mother Earth is monumental. To take the necessary steps of strategic action in pursuit of justice, peace and balance with the natural world, is now the expectation of maturation of the processes leading to the World Indigenous Law Conference 2020 in Cauca, Colombia.

Autonomous Indigenous Intercultural University (UAII)
Popayán, Cauca [Colombia]

Comision Internacional Abya Yala

The Autonomous Indigenous Intercultural University UAII in Popayán, Cauca [Colombia] will host the V World Indigenous Law Conference in October 2020 

Since its formation in 1971, the Indigenous Regional Council of Cauca (CRIC) has developed its own educational system. The main purpose was self-preservation of the indigenous peoples, not only through demonstration and mobilization, but also through inheritance of culture and practices.  The university was born to counter the hegemony of the regular public educational model which, according to the indigenous authorities, was imposed on them by the state after Spanish colonization.

Jurisgenesis – Jurisprudence – Jurisdiction – Judgement

Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth 

#WILC2020  #TimeIsNow


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Conferencia Mundial de Ley Indígena 2020
World Indigenous Law Conference (WILC)
Cauca, Colombia
Consejo Regional Indígena de Cauca - CRIC

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Trayectoria:

La Conferencia Mundial de Ley Indígena se inicia con la primera convocatoria en Aoteroa [Nueva Zelandia] en el año 2012, luego en 2014 se realizo la segunda conferencia en Australia. Con una proyección de convocatoria cada dos años, la siguiente conferencia se llevo acabo en la Universidad de California Irvine en 2016, y la mas recién fue instalado en la Universidad de Windsor, Ontario [Canadá] en noviembre de 2018.

La Conferencia Mundial de Ley Indígena (World Indigenous Law Conference WILC) tiene el carácter de ser una instancia al nivel de la geopolítica global que ha sido creado y organizado por los mismos Pueblos Indígenas, afuera de las estructuras de los estados, pero si en colaboración con los diversos sistemas de educación como que han sido las universidades y los centros de saberes del Mundo Indígena. La conferencia ha servido como un espacio de encuentro y compartir entre los juristas indígenas como abogados, jueces, y defensores de derechos humanos para fortalecer sus organizaciones profesionales y expandir hacia un horizonte global en lucha por la justicia para la Naciones Originales de la Madre Tierra.

La dinámica de la conferencia ha funcionado para clarificar, analizar, conversar y comentar sobre las bases legales de dos sistemas: la Ley Indígena o el Derecho Mayor y los sistemas de jurisprudencia de los estados en el contexto geopolítico actual.  Un criterio fundamental del WILC es el reconocimiento del derecho de libre determinación de los Pueblos Indígenas, igual a todos los demás pueblos del mundo. En consecuencia, también ha sido fundamental la necesidad de confrontar las tácticas legaloides de los estados que siguen normalizando y instituyendo la colonización y despojo ilegal en cada jurisdicción de cada país, en violación del Derecho Indígena y los estándares y principios contemporáneos de Derechos Humanos.

Para efectuar este proceso de debate, análisis, articulación de argumentación, el compartir experiencias y estrategias en un ambiente de solidaridad indígena y comprensión colectiva, siempre el contexto cultural de la cosmovisión indígena es parte del diseño del evento.  Los talleres y plenarias entonces se organiza al redor de un tema central y particular a cada conferencia.

Como es evidente, todas las conferencias se han llevado en países de habla ingles. Por consecuencia, los debates y aportes se han concentrado en la historia de los pueblos indígenas con los sistemas colonizadores derivados de la Ley Común de Inglaterra y se ha ignorado la historia los Pueblos Indígenas confrontando de las instituciones legales de los estados fundados en el Derecho Civil Romano, como son todos los países de Latino América.

Con el propósito de extender y integrar las luchas legales de los Pueblos Indígenas del Sur, en la tercera conferencia WILC de 2016 en Irvine, California se invito la representación del Consejo Regional Indígena de Cuaca CRIC [Colombia] y es allí cuando se propone llevar la conferencia WILC de 2020 a Colombia.  En 2018, en Canadá otra vez los representantes de CRIC participaron y son presentados con el Bulto Ceremonial de la Conferencia Mundial de Ley Indígena, con la responsabilidad de convocar y organizar el evento en 2020 en Cauca, Colombia.

La trayectoria y procesos de la Conferencia Mundial de Ley Indígena ha tenido un desarrollo orgánico que emerge de la Jurisgenesis, la Jurisprudencia, la Jurisdicción y el Juicio de las Naciones Originales de la Madre Tierra.  La frente común es la lucha contra la colonización, contra el genocidio y en defensa de los Derechos Humanos y los Territorios de nuestros pueblos. En el caso del continente Abya Yala en particular se ha construido ya una base y metodología estratégico para avanzar en el Desmantelamiento de la Doctrinadel Descubrimiento.

En el proceso se revelado que comparable con el sistema de los estados, que tiene una proyección planetaria por vía de los sistemas de Derecho Internacional y la institución de las Naciones Unidas, también como Naciones Originales tenemos una base legal de jurisdicción planetaria como responsables en la defensa de la Integridad Territorial de la Madre Tierra.

Sin responsabilidad non hay derecho, y en la época de la crisis climática que amenaza el futuro de toda la humanidad, la responsabilidad de los Pueblos Indígenas de proveer una esperanza de vida con justicia y harmonía con la Madre Tierra es monumental.  Para tomar los pasos estratégicos necesarios de seguimiento en búsqueda de la justicia, la paz y equilibrio con la naturaleza, se espera madurar los procesos en camino a la Conferencia Mundial de Ley Indígena 2020 en Cauca, Colombia.