Wet'suwet'en Testify on Police Brutality, Imprisonment, at Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 10, 2023

"Wet’suwet’en described their struggle to defend their land, waters, and rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in a virtual hearing. Joined by Amnesty International, representatives from the Nation described the ongoing unjust #criminalization and #harassment of #LandDefenders opposing the construction of the #CoastalGasLink (#CGL) pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. The Canadian government responded to the testimony of the Wet’suwet’en delegation. The testimony described the attacks on the Nation’s rights, including the right to free, prior and nformed consent to resource-extraction projects affecting their territory, as upheld in the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."

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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html

#PoliceBrutality #Canada #ACAB
#Wetsuweten #FirstNations #IndigenousNews
#UN #DeclarationOfRights of #IndigenousPeoples
#CulturalGenocide #Pipelines

No man has a right to monopolise more than he can enjoy; what the rich give to the poor, whilst millions are starving, is not a perfect favour, but an imperfect right.

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Declaration of Rights 1812 - No. 28

https://romantic-circles.org/editions/shelley/devil/declright.html

#Shelley #DeclarationOfRights