http://cwis.org/FWE/2008/05/16/the-un-bigotry-and-violence-against-indigenous-peoples/ An Online Daily Journal of the Center for World Indigenous Studies Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cwis.org/FWE/2008/05/16/the-un-bigotry-and-violence-against-indigenous-peoples/#comment-30 Jay Taber Fri, 16 May 2008 23:00:05 +0000 http://cwis.org/FWE/2008/05/16/the-un-bigotry-and-violence-against-indigenous-peoples/#comment-30 As you observe, the UN Human Rights Council is a state-oriented body housed in a state-oriented institution. And even though the Human Rights Council's own reports acknowledge the complicity of states and corporations in perpetrating the worst human rights abuses in the world today, depending on state-oriented governance structures to challenge First World abusers is illogical. Self-reliance is indeed a much more reliable approach for Fourth World nations. As you observe, the UN Human Rights Council is a state-oriented body housed in a state-oriented institution. And even though the Human Rights Council’s own reports acknowledge the complicity of states and corporations in perpetrating the worst human rights abuses in the world today, depending on state-oriented governance structures to challenge First World abusers is illogical. Self-reliance is indeed a much more reliable approach for Fourth World nations.

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