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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mr@survival-international.org
href="mailto:mr@survival-international.org">Survival International</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mikinakn@shaw.ca
href="mailto:mikinakn@shaw.ca">mikinakn@shaw.ca</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:22 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION REACHES 60 – BUT ONLY 20 COUNTRIES
HAVE SIGNED TRIBAL PEOPLES’ LAW</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE<BR><BR>9 December
2008<BR><BR>HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION REACHES 60 – BUT ONLY 20 COUNTRIES HAVE
SIGNED TRIBAL PEOPLES’ LAW<BR><BR>The 60th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights will be celebrated tomorrow, 10 December – but only
20 countries have signed up to the international law on tribal peoples, whose
rights are routinely violated.<BR><BR>The very existence of many tribal peoples
is under increasing threat. In Paraguay, the last uncontacted
Ayoreo-Totobiegosode are running for their lives as bulldozers rapidly raze
their forest.<BR><BR>In India, the Jarawa tribe came into fatal conflict last
month with poachers invading their land, leaving one Jarawa and one poacher
dead.<BR><BR>In Botswana, the Kalahari Bushmen are being destroyed by a
government which denies them access to water but is forging ahead with plans to
mine diamonds on their land.<BR><BR>International Labour Organisation Convention
169 (ILO 169) is the strongest international legal instrument safeguarding
tribal peoples’ rights. It recognises their rights to own their land and to make
decisions about projects that affect them, and it is legally binding on
governments that sign it.<BR><BR>Survival is campaigning for all governments to
ratify ILO 169, strengthening it and giving tribal peoples the best chance of a
future.<BR><BR>Survival’s director Stephen Corry said today, ‘Sixty years after
the world acknowledged the sanctity of human rights, entire tribes are facing
extinction. There is no excuse for this. Every government must take
responsibility and ratify the law to help ensure their
survival.’<BR><BR>–ENDS–<BR><BR>For more information please contact Miriam Ross
at Survival International on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or (+44) (0)7504 543 367 or
email <A
href="mailto:mr@survival-international.org">mr@survival-international.org</A><BR><BR>To
read this press release online visit <A
href="http://www.survival-international.org/news/4005">http://www.survival-international.org/news/4005</A><BR>To
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