alternatives to destroying indigenous people

After taking more than 20 years to draft and agree, on June 29, 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the U.N. Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G06/125/71/PDF/G0612571.pdf?OpenElement

these are laws and regulations established by the United Nations protecting the rights of Indigenous people in areas around the world. These rights and regulations give a precedent to protect and establish protection for the indigenous people and their ways of life. Unfortunately not everyone follows the United Nations rules and regulations set in place. This does however set a precedent in that this is the first treaty that has been written into modern law which should hopefully sustain itself and hold legal obligation to those who created it.

UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION ON THE
RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES*
PP1 Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing
the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as
such,
PP2 Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of
civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind,
PP3 Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating
superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin, racial, religious, ethnic or
cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and
socially unjust,
PP4 Reaffirming also that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be
free from discrimination of any kind,
PP5 Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result
of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus
preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with
their own needs and interests,

http://www.globalissues.org/article/693/rights-of-indigenous-people

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