Guatemala City, Guatemala (UCTP Taino News) – Indigenous Peoples
from throughout Latin American and Caribbean are meeting in Guatemala to
discuss and organize regional perspectives on the upcoming United Nations World
Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014. Supported by the Government of
Guatemala, This preparatory meeting began on April 11 with a Mayan blessing
ceremony lead by Felix Sarazua, a Maya Spiritual Guide. The meeting will end on Saturday, April 13,
2013.
The Latin American
and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the World Conference on
Indigenous Peoples is a part of a global preparatory process toward the United
Nations General Assembly high-level plenary entitled the “World Conference on
Indigenous Peoples,” scheduled to take September 2014. Some of the themes being discussed in
Guatemala include the implementation of
the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous
perceptions of land and territories; the post-2015 UN Agenda; and the a
strategic plan for the World Conference.
Among the invited
delegates attending the meeting in Guatemala is Roberto Mukaro Borrero,
President of the United Confederation of Taino People (UCTP). Borrero is
representing the Confederation and the Caribbean Amerindian Development
Organization (CADO).
“From
the start of this process the UCTP and CADO have been concerned with
the lack of effective participation of indigenous Caribbean Islanders
during these important preparatory stages” stated Borrero. The UCTP and
CADO jointly submitted their concerns to the Latin American and
Caribbean Coordinating Committee as well as the Global Indigenous
Women’s Caucus.
In its resolution (A/RES/66/296), the
UN General Assembly decided that the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General
Assembly, to be known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples would be
held on 22-23 September 2014 in New York at UN Headquarters. A goal of the
World Conference is to share perspectives and best practices on the realization
of the rights of Indigenous peoples, including to pursue the objectives of the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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