When it comes to reporting important international events in which the United States plays an enormous role, the mainstream corporate media is once again fulfilling its propagandistic function to protect elite interests by refusing to cover the facts and issues.
Over the past couple weeks, thousands of delegates have been meeting at the United Nations for the Seventh Session of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). Representing over 370 million indigenous people worldwide, the forum serves as an arena for addressing pressing issues that indigenous people face across the world with a special focus on the most imperative current crisis: global climate change.... www.blogger.com
Although it went virtually unreported in the U.S., last September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the "historic" U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Among other things, the declaration calls for nation-states to include and seek approval from indigenous peoples and nations in the constructing and implementation of any policy or "project affecting their lands or resources."
