Center and NCAI holding Brown Bag lunch March 19

 
  

More than 1,244 indigenous people have been assassinated
in Colombia in the past five years.   


   Photo by ASOCBARI

This persecution is not unique to Colombia. It is part of an alarming trend of human rights violations against indigenous peoples in South America. Indigenous rights to life, land, equality, natural resources, self-determination, and religious freedom are under attack.  A strong American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is needed to prevent human rights violations in the Americas.  


PLEASE JOIN US FOR A BROWN BAG LUNCH to learn more about human rights violations against indigenous peoples in South America:

     March 19, 2009, 1-2 pm
     National Congress of the American Indian
     1301 Connecticut Ave NW, Conference Room
     Washington, DC, 20036

Featured presenters include indigenous representatives from:

::    Andean Indigenous Organization (CAOI)
::    National Confederation of Mining Affected Communities (CONACAMI), Peru
::    National Indigenous Organization of   Colombia (ONIC)
::    Confederation of Kichua People of Ecuador (ECUARUNARI)
::    Identidad Lafkenche, Chile

For more information contact Leo Crippa; lcrippa@indianlaw.org,
202.547.2800 ext. 105

Translation equipment generously donated by the Amazon Alliance.