41. Bill's Aboriginal Links: International Central American Development Studies indigenous peoples in Central America Maya peoplesin Mexico Sustainable Development Focus on panama panama Canal http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/aborintl.htm

Aboriginal Links International Latin America Australia New Zealand International ... Environment Latin America Latin American Network Resources Latin World WWW Virtual Library: Latin American Studies Abya Yala Net ... Spanish to English Automatic Translation Mexico Society and Culture of Mexico Map of Mexico LANIC: Mexico Links Latin World Mexican Links ... Bibliography: Books About Mexico Central America Central America Maps (Magellan) Institute for Central American Development Studies Indigenous Peoples in Central America Maya Peoples in Mexico and Guatemala ... Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama) South America South America Maps (Magellan) GAIA Forest Conservation: South America WHA: Native Peoples in South America) Indigenous Literature (South America) ... Amanaka'a Amazon Network Australian Links Australia Maps (Magellan) WWW Virtual Library: Aboriginal Studies Koori Net The Term "Koori" ... OzWeb New Zealand Links New Zealand Maps (Magellan) New Zealand/Aotearoa on the Web Introduction to The Maori Maoritanga ... New Zealand Information Other Pacific Links WWW Virtual Library: Pacific Studies Maps of the Pacific (Magellan) South Pacific Information Network Pacific Island Report (News) ... Oceanian Governments Online International Links Hieros Gamos: Native Peoples Law News OneWorld: Land Rights Updates Center for World Indigenous Studies International Indian Treaty Council ... Court Upholds Border Crossing Right (1997, Can)

42. Indigenous Peoples Seattle Declaration. On The Occasion Of The Third Ministerial of The Nanhu, Mexico Debra Harry, indigenous peoples Council on Fund, USA PriscillaSettee, indigenous Women s Network de la Juventad Kuna, panama Chaz Wheelock http://www.gfbv.de/gfbv_e/docus/wto_e.htm

Indigenous Peoples' Seattle Declaration on the occasion of the Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization 30 November - 3 December 1999 ANALYSIS RECOMMENDATIONS ... The WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) The WTO Forests Products Agreement WTO TRIPs Agreement ... [to top] We, the Indigenous Peoples from various regions of the world, have come to Seattle to express our great concern over how the World Trade Organization is destroying Mother Earth and the cultural and biological diversity of which we are a part. [to top] Trade liberalization and export-oriented development, which are the overriding principles and policies pushed by the WTO, are creating the most adverse impacts on the lives of Indigenous Peoples. Our inherent right to self-determination, our sovereignty as nations, and treaties and other constructive agreements which Indigenous nations and Peoples have negotiated with other nation-states, are undermined by most of the WTO Agreements. The disproportionate impact of these Agreements on our communities, whether through environmental degradation or the militarization and violence that often accompanies development projects, is serious and therefore should be addressed immediately. The WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) , which promotes export competition and import liberalization, has allowed the entry of cheap agricultural products into our communities. It is causing the destruction of ecologically rational and sustainable agricultural practices of Indigenous Peoples.

43. NGO Forum Documentation indigenous groups push for recognition ANDREW BOUNDS IN panama CITY. The world sindigenous races will press for recognition as peoples with the right to self http://www.racism.org.za/media1.htm

Media Resource Indigenous groups push for recognition ANDREW BOUNDS IN PANAMA CITY The world's indigenous races will press for recognition as peoples with the right to self-determination at the United Nations Conference on Racism in South Africa in September. A meeting of more than 150 indigenous representatives in Panama resolved on Saturday to ask for specific recognition by the universal declaration of human rights, part of the UN charter. "There are 400m indigenous people throughout the world who do not enjoy the protection of human rights law," said Mililani Trask, from Hawaii. "We are never recognised as peoples. When we are discriminated against and persecuted we are ethnic minorities. When we flee war, refugees. "For 17 years we have worked to include indigenous peoples within the declaration of human rights. This cannot continue." Ms Trask added that indigenous peoples should be able to vote for the degree of autonomy they wished, including independence. The conference denounced continuing "colonisation" that deprives indigenous peoples of rights over their land and said little had changed six years into the UN's decade of indigenous peoples. However, they welcomed the creation of a permanent forum of indigenous affairs by the UN Economic and Social Council.

44. Ethnopharmacology In San Blas and Intellectual Property Rights Amongindigenous peoples A Case is geographicallyisolated fromthe rest of panama. compared with other indigenous groups in http://cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/varese/NAS198/jon/naspaper.htm

Ethnopharmacology and Intellectual Property Rights AmongIndigenous Peoples: A Case Study by JonathanCutting The Kuna which live in San Blas and in acouple of reservations in the cordillera are also the custodians of oneof this hemisphere's densest rain forests, the Darien. The Darien is, inWestern eyes, the last remaining obstacle in completing the Pan-AmericanHighway, which will stretch from Alaska'a Prudhoe Bay to Tierra del Fuego.Thus its nickname "The Gap." In the eyes of the Kuna, however,it is something to be managed, protected, and respected. One of the most controversial issues presentlyunder consideration is the debate over Intellectual Property Rights, orIPR. As the biotechnical and genetic engineering industries have mushroomed,companies seek to protect their discoveries from competitors who couldeasily reproduce their finds and diminish their earnings. IPR could wellbe deemed "Intellectual Profit Rights." Among the universitysector as well, such claims have become a reward and a sign of competence.But when the "find" was really offered by a local guide in aremote tropical rain forest who was divulging cultural knowledge centuriesold, whose intellectual property is it? Who is to be compensated? How? The international community has initiatedan effort to develop laws and standards to regulate such issues. However,progress has been shaky and the enforcement of legislation is inivisible,if not nonexistent in the very countries which have the greatest biologicalresources to offer the world. Pressure by industrialized nations to standardizeinternational intellectual property right legislation will prevent indigenouspeoples from protecting and developing their knowledge in the future.

45. Justice For The Women Of Juarez no question that indigenous and marginalized peoples have consistently InternationalActions Mobilizing Against Plan Puebla panama indigenous and Campesino http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/O_12.html

October 12th: Day for Resistance to Corporate Globalization If you are having trouble go here Oct. 12, 2002 will be a day of resistance to corporate globalization policies throughout the Americas. Known to some as Indigenous People's Day, to others as Columbus Day, October 12th is a day to celebrate people struggling against corporate power, militarism, indigenous genocide and environmental destruction in the Americas. The day symbolizes invasion, genocide, and the imposition of a value system and an economic model that contradicts the values and economics of indigenous communities that pre-dated "contact." What is curious about the many Oct. 12 protests is their decentralized nature. Many groups from distinct geographic regions have chosen the day to protest around a wide variety of issues including immigrant rights, corporate globalization plans like PPP or the FTAA, nuclear testing and indigenous rights in the US. All of these struggles share a common human desire for freedom from corporate control. These issues also invite us to join the search for alternatives spaces and ways of life that respect the earth, indigenous communities and all humanity.

46. Eco-Index: Preparation Of The Regional Map "Indigenous Peoples And Natural Ecosy Preparation of the Regional Map indigenous peoples and Natural Ecosystems in Belize;Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; panama. http://www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?ProjectID=442

47. En;WTO Indigenous Peoples Declaration,Dec 6 indigenous Environmental Network, USA/Canada O Clemente Ibe Wilson, Movimientode la Juventad Kuna, panama Other indigenous peoples Organizations, NGOs http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~archive/chiapas95/1999.12/msg00045.html

Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next ... Thread Index En;WTO Indigenous Peoples Declaration,Dec 6 To chiapas95@eco.utexas.edu Subject : En;WTO Indigenous Peoples Declaration,Dec 6 From owner-chiapas95@eco.utexas.edu Date : Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:16:26 -0600 (CST) Reply-To chiapas-i@eco.utexas.edu http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher to Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, Mailing Lists. Prev by Date: Es;Jornada,PAN in Opposition Alliance in Chiapas,Dec 6 Next by Date: Es;Melel Xojobal News Summary,Dec 6 Prev by thread: Es;Jornada,PAN in Opposition Alliance in Chiapas,Dec 6 Next by thread: Es;Melel Xojobal News Summary,Dec 6 Index(es): Date Thread

48. Indigenous Peoples - OHCHR The international character of treaties with indigenous peoples and the utilizationof remunicipalizacion y ciudadania etnica contra el plan puebla panama. http://www.unhchr.ch/indigenous/treaties.htm

Main Working Groups Calendar of meetings Special Rapporteur ... List of Organizations Publications The Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Fact Sheet #9/Rev.1) United Nations Guide for Indigenous Peoples Links International Decade International Day Committee on the Rights of the Child, Indigenous Children Discussion Day Expert Seminar on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples (Geneva, 15-17 December 2003) See Photo gallery Opening Statement by Bertrand Ramcharan, Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Provisional agenda [ English Spanish ECOSOC decision 2003/271 Conclusions and recommendations ( E/CN4/2004/111 New! Working papers The international character of treaties with indigenous peoples and the utilization of treaties about them by Mr. James W. Zion

49. Indigenous Peoples's Millenium Conference indigenous peoples s Millenium Conference Review of the Decade of the Worlds indigenousPeople (panama City, panama, 711 May 2001) Working paper submitted by http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/f7b259fd8f83b1d0c1256be90033f684?O

50. Indigenous Peoples Seattle Declaration of The Nanhu, Mexico. Debra Harry, indigenous peoples Council on Priscilla Settee,indigenous Women s Network, USA/Canada. Movimiento de la Juventad Kuna, panama. http://csdngo.igc.org/Indigenous/indig_seattle.htm

Indigenous Peoples Indigenous Home I Position Papers I Background Papers Home Site Map Issue Caucuses Major Groups ... Links NGO Position Papers: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' SEATTLE DECLARATION on the occasion of the Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization November 30-December 3, 1999 We, the Indigenous Peoples from various regions of the world, have come to Seattle to express our great concern over how the World Trade Organization is destroying Mother Earth and the cultural and biological diversity of which we are a part. Trade liberalization and export-oriented development, which are the overriding principles and policies pushed by the WTO, are creating the most adverse impacts on the lives of Indigenous Peoples. Our inherent right to self-determination, our sovereignty as nations, and Treaties and other constructive agreements which Indigenous Nations and Peoples have negotiated with other nation-states, are undermined by most of the WTO Agreements. The disproportionate impact of these Agreements on our communities, whether through environmental degradation or the militarization and violence that often accompanies development projects, is serious and therefore should be addressed immediately. The WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AOA), which promotes export competition and import liberalization, has allowed the entry of cheap agricultural products into our communities. It is causing the destruction of ecologically rational and sustainable agricultural practices of Indigenous Peoples.

51. Indigenous Peoples And The Right To Development The indigenous peoples of panama have already experienced the devastating impactsof imposed development and its empty promise of prosperity for their areas. http://www.treatycouncil.org/section_21141721.htm

International Indian Treaty Council CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS “WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES" United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations, 18th Session July 23 - July 27, 2000 Item # 4: "Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Development" Joint Statement by the International Indian Treaty Council and the Kuna Youth Movement Thank you Madame Chair. The UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Right to Development nearly twenty-five years ago. Article 1 of the Declaration states that the right to development is an inalienable human right for all peoples "in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized." Article 1 also states that the full realization of the right of peoples to self-determination, and "full sovereignty over their wealth and natural resources," are fundamental to the right to development. Indigenous Peoples are often viewed as barriers to so-called progress, and their rights and communities are swept aside with little hesitation or redress within the state systems. Clearly, Indigenous Peoples around the word require and deserve the attention and the intervention of the world community as they stand in defense of their homelands, human rights and way of life in the face of imposed development and resource extraction.

52. Letter Of Indigenous Peoples To The World Bank Regarding The Extractive Industri PACIFIC. Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui, Hawai’i. Pacific indigenous peoples EnvironmentCoalition, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Asociacion Napguana, panama. Kuna, panama. http://www.treatycouncil.org/new_page_5244112111.htm

International Indian Treaty Council CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS “WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES" 10 March 2004 Mr. James Wolfensohn President World Bank Group 1818 H Street NW Washington, DC 20433 Fax: + 1 202 522 7700 jholden1@worldbank.org Dear Mr. Wolfensohn: Follow up and implementation of Extractive Industries Review (EIR) recommendations on indigenous peoples We, the undersigned indigenous peoples’ organizations, welcome the final report of the EIR and are writing to you as President of the World Bank Group to lead in the World Bank’s implementation of its recommendations on indigenous peoples. We especially endorse the EIR recommendations that deal with indigenous peoples because these are largely consistent with our own demands for reforms in the World Bank and in the extractives industry. We commend the eminent person Dr. Emil Salim for recommending appropriate measures to ensure that World Bank policies and projects effectively address the negative impacts of extractive industries on our peoples. Positive aspects of the EIR report The findings of the independent EIR Report corroborate the concerns that indigenous peoples have raised about World Bank-assisted extractive industry projects and their negative impacts on our territories, well-being and livelihoods. The report confirms that these industries have violated our fundamental rights and have a devastating effect on our lives, our territories and our cultures. The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Dr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, for instance, states that extractive industries are “

53. Resource Centre For The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples Another 675 people from the indigenous communities of FARC and AUC has intensifiedin this area of western Colombia, close to the border with panama. http://www.galdu.org/english/index.php?odas=126

54. Public Citizen | Global Trade Watch | Global Trade Watch - Indigenous Peoples' S Nanhu, Mexico + Debra Harry, indigenous peoples Council on Fund, USA + PriscillaSettee, indigenous Women s Network de la Juventad Kuna, panama + Chaz Wheelock http://www.citizen.org/trade/wto/Qatar/seattle_mini/articles.cfm?ID=5472

55. Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink: Add URL - A Bravenet.com Free Links Estudios de la personalidad indigena de panama. (Studies ofthe psychology of panama s indigenous peoples, the Kuna.). http://pub19.bravenet.com/freelink/show.php?usernum=1631509558

56. Ookpik Daily News The NgobeBugle indigenous peoples of panama and the Nuu-Chah-Nulth indigenouspeoples of western Canada share a problem ( they are both fighting major http://www.iucn.org/wcc/ookpik/issue2/08_indigenous.html

Credits Feedback Front Page Indigenous issues featured in Resolutions By Pratap Chatterjee - IPS The Ngobe-Bugle indigenous peoples of Panama and the Nuu-Chah-Nulth indigenous peoples of western Canada share a problem ( they are both fighting major Canadian companies who want to exploit the resources on the indigenous lands which is expected to cause tremendous environmental and social damage. Rio Tinto Zinc of Canada wants to mine the Cerro Colorado region of Panama for copper while MacMillan Bloedell is already logging the temperate rainforests of Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver island. These and other extractive projects are examples of problems to be condemned in a slew of resolutions that will be presented Wednesday on behalf of indigenous peoples to the World Conservation Congress for approval. This year indigenous peoples issues are an important part of the resolutions that have been brought to the floor of the IUCN general assembly and hopes are high that the international organisation, which has traditionally focussed on protecting animal, bird and plant species, will recognise that indigenous peoples face similar threats from development activities of major banks and corporations. "We want the companies and the government to demarcate our lands and give us the opportunity to negotiate any development of these lands directly," says Eligio Alvarado, a Kuna from Panama who has come to Montreal to represent the indigenous peoples of Central America.

57. Roundtable On Intellectual Property And Indigenous Peoples while in other countries, notably panama, it is a highly controversial subject, tosuch an extent that it has become a campaign banner for indigenous peoples. http://www.wipo.org/documents/en/meetings/1998/indip/rt98_4b.htm

printable version Home Conferences, Meetings and Seminars WIPO WIPO/INDIP/RT/98/4B ORIGINAL: Spanish DATE: July 6, 1998 WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION GENEVA ROUNDTABLE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Geneva, July 23 and 24, 1998 INITIATIVES FOR THE PROTECTION OF HOLDERS OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES INITIATIVES FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES Brief Analysis of the Situation in Central America Intellectual Property Legislation in Panama Since the establishment of what we now know as the "intellectual property system" just over a century ago, indigenous knowledge, which is rich in medicine, art, crafts, music, literature, etc. has been steadily marginalized, simply because it has to do with the collective rights of a people and because it does not have a known author or creator. This legal vacuum could be looked upon as the continuation of an unending genocide inflicted on indigenous peoples from time immemorial. One might think that our culture had been intended solely to give mankind its folklore image, to the extent of being catalogued as the heritage of that same mankind, with no recognition of its true origin. We are living through a period of wholesale plundering or pirating of indigenous knowledge and products without any related benefits for our peoples. For instance, until quite recently the involvement of indigenous botanists and medicine men was considered retrograde in medicine, while today many of medicine's transnational pharmaceutical companies are investing large or smaller amounts of money to gain control of traditional indigenous medicine, and even registering sacred plants as if they have been developed in a laboratory. At the same time indigenous designs are gradually gaining a foothold in fashion and on the runways, but with alien labels or marks that have nothing to do with our peoples.

58. Indigenous Peoples And Neotropical Forest Conservation Kuna Yala, protecting the San Blas of panama. (ed. E. Kemp). The law of the mother,protecting indigenous peoples in protected areas. Sierra Club Books. http://www.macalester.edu/~envirost/MacEnvReview/indigenouspeoples.htm

Posted on September 23, 2002 Click here for a .pdf version. Indigenous Peoples and Neotropical Forest Conservation: Impacts of Protected Area Systems on Traditional Cultures Amy E. Daniels Interdisciplinary Ecology College of Natural Resources and Environment University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 adaniels@ufl.edu Abstract In the race to protect remaining tracts of neotropical forests and the resources harbored therein, the Western concept of biological conservation has heretofore been the dominate modus operandi for protecting natural areas in Latin America. Through the establishment of first-world style protected area systems, indigenous cultures and traditional resource-uses have historically been considered only in light of how they may affect biodiversity and ecosystem function within protected areas. Case studies of various indigenous cultures onto which protected areas have been superimposed demonstrate the documented and potential negative effects on both biological and cultural systems, and the connection between the two. An understanding of these effects is important in cultural preservation and biodiversity conservation.

59. Second Gathering Of Indigenous Peoples Of The Caribbean with their own chauvinism could learn a great deal from panama on aboriginal Wehave support from the World Council of indigenous peoples (WCIP) of which we http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Communities/HeritageLib-SymposiaOn2ndGatheringOfIndigeno

FEA TURE ADDRESS SYMPOSIA IN CONNECTION WITH THE SECOND GATHERING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE CARIBBEAN AUGUST 29 TO SEPTEMBER 5, 1993 JOSEPH PALACIO RESIDENT TUTOR U.W.I., BELIZE HELD AT THE INVITATION OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TO COMMEMORATE 1993 THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARED YEAR OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. INTRODUCTION First I express my own heartfelt gratitude to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for staging this Second Gathering of the Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean as aftermath to CARIFESTA V and in commemoration of 1993 the United Nations declared Year of Indigenous Peoples. I am also grateful to the Santa Rosa Carib community for their hospitality and wish them all success as they celebrate the 234 th Annual Santa Rosa de Arima Festival. THE GARIFUNA - TRULY INDIGENOUS TO THE CARIBBEAN Today I speak to you as a representative of the proud Garifuna nation. That nation numbers about 200,000 and is found in the Central American countries of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua as well as in the diaspora throughout North America. The Garifuna are unique in being both Amerindian and African and being equally proud of these two distinct roots.

60. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES y calle 41a, Casa 338, Calidonia-panama, -, -, -, panama, 507 227 5886, 507 2254105, napguana@pty.com, htpp//www.napguana.home.ml.org, LATIN AMERICA, INDIGENOUSPEOPLES. http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/ngodir/NGODirSubj/sub0A8A0.HTM

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OrgName OrgAssociation StateProvince PostalCode CountryName Telephone Fax EmailInternet WebAddress RegionName Subject AMERICAN INDIAN LAW ALLIANCE DPI 708 Broadway 8th floor New York NY UNITED STATES 212 598-0100 x. 257 ailanm@flash.net INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ASOCIACION NAPGUANA DPI Avenida Justo Arosemena y calle 41a Casa 3-38 Calidonia-Panama PANAMA napguana@pty.com htpp://www.napguana.home.ml.org LATIN AMERICA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES NATIONAL ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER CATHOLIC COUNCIL DPI 185 Pirie St. 5001-Adelaide SA AUSTRALIA natsicc@ozemail.com.au INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SOUTH AND MESO AMERICAN INDIAN RIGHTS CENTER DPI 518 Main St Embassy Suite, 2nd Fl Woodland CA UNITED STATES saiic@igc.apc.org www.nativeweb.org/saiic INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION DPI 109 West 28th St New York NY UNITED STATES Tribal.link@mailcity.com www.tribal-link.org INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WITTENBERG CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES, THE E/D 395 Wittenberg Road Bearsville NY UNITED STATES bebird@aol.com www.wittenberg.org INDIGENOUS PEOPLES YACHAY WASI DPI 708 W 192nd Str. #6B

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