http://fwe.cwis.org/2008/05/16/the-un-bigotry-and-violence-against-indigenous-peoples/ An Online Daily Journal of the Center for World Indigenous Studies Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://fwe.cwis.org/2008/05/16/the-un-bigotry-and-violence-against-indigenous-peoples/#comment-1060 Jay Taber Fri, 16 May 2008 23:00:05 +0000 http://fwe.cwis.org/2008/05/16/the-un-bigotry-and-violence-against-indigenous-peoples/#comment-1060 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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