SWITZERLAND: Indigenous activists end hunger strike

Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - 11:00

Six indigenous activists ended a hunger strike on December 3, after attempting to draw attention to US and British attempts to stall the adoption of a United Nations declaration on indigenous peoples' rights. 2004 marks the end of the UN's Decade of Indigenous Peoples and was supposed to end with a new Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But, despite hundreds of consultations over the draft, the process looks set to disintegrate because Britain and the US refuse to recognise collective rights, an essential component of recognising the rights of peoples.

From Green Left Weekly, December 8, 2004.

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