While the UN and its agencies are competent at documenting the plight of indigenous peoples in the world, the institution itself is often complicit in the harms caused by transnational corporations working in collusion with its member states. Ending the exclusionary practices and policies within the UN toward indigenous peoples is the least it could do. If the UN was truly willing and able to effect positive change for indigenous peoples, it would begin by taking a look in the mirror.
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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