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Our wa’a is full 😍😍😍 Congratulations to my ohana! Kamalii must’ve been so ecstatic 🥰🥰🥰@moku1 @momakoral @ohanashophawaii #indiginouspeoples #kanakamaoli #hawaiianwedding #nativebeauty #weohana #captainandnavigator #surfergirl #makaainana #riseinlove #ohanawaa #hawaiishop #ohanaistheshit (at Kauai) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSoTMQRLOHo/?utm_medium=tumblr

[grandarchitect]

Dab Records Presents #hiphop Night at the Dickens Opera House with guest performances by #flowalition #freedommovement #indiginouspeoples #rawb #mcad #redlion #retrospects #hannahliss #$hortfuse and #thegrandarchitect #hiphop #co #longmont #dopeness #illness #smokeone #blazed #highlights #writersofinstagram #entrepreneurship #recordingengineer #denver #milehigh (at Dickens Opera House) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw8BLaQFIug/?igshid=i2ue2z9tdcqk

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Championing the rights of indigenous people: A moment with Galina Angarova

[undgccso]

Avoiding resource and human exploitation: Indigenous contributions to sustainability

Participants listened to panelists from Tribal Link Foundation, International Indian Treaty Council, and Tebtebba Foundation.

I found this appreciation codified in some of the core sustainable development documents from the UN. These documents recognize that indigenous peoples’ ability to fully engage in sustainable development practices, even on their own lands, has been limited by economic, social, and historical factors; likewise, they call for development practices to “recognize, accommodate, promote and strengthen” the role played by indigenous peoples in the development process. Similarly, the Conference Declaration from the 2012 Rio+20 Summit affirms the importance of indigenous peoples’ voices in sustainable development, referencing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. 

By the time I left Alberta, I felt very frustrated that indigenous peoples' traditional methods of sustaining the health of Mother Earth had been discarded in favor of exploitative management practices. Canadian mining corporations are also responsible for deplorable practices in the Global South that exploit people as well as the environment. This is regression, and it is not compatible with the promotion of sustainable development.

Two workshops took place today at UNHQ, entitled “Indigenous Peoples and the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Toward Full and Effective Participation,” and “A Dialogue on Foundational Values and Principles for the Sustainable Development Goals: Learning from the Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties.” Panelists called for a land and resource rights-based approach to sustainable development, the protection of traditional knowledge and livelihoods, and full participation and partnership in all relevant decisions. The development process is forfeiting a tremendously rich resource if it does not pay attention to the wisdom and ecological care embodied by indigenous populations. It is also essential that indigenous populations become increasingly less marginalized, and that the Sustainable Development Goals include and promote their interests.

Ghazali Ohrella, a panelist representing Tribal Link, said something that has stuck with me all day: indigenous peoples are “the mercury in the barometer of the successes and failures of the United Nations.” As we craft our Action Agenda at this conference, we must keep an eye on the temperature.

-- Emma Hansen (@emmatghansen)