UNDRIP Article 11: Right to Cultural Practices
Article 11 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states that:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practice and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artifacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.
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UNDRIP Article 12: Spiritual and Religious Freedom
Article 12 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practice, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains.
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UNDRIP Article 13: Right to Language
Article 13 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.
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UNDRIP Article 14: Right to Education
Article 14 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning.
2. Indigenous individuals, particularly children, have the right to all levels and forms of education of the State without discrimination.
Interview with Antonio Gonzales: "No people, no matter what color, should be a mascot"
Antonio Gonzales, director of the American Indian Movement AIM West, explains why the use of Indigneous Peoples as mascots is culturally offensive and can no longer be tolerated in the 21st century. We caught up with Antonio Gonzales at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples Issues, New York.
Bestang Dekdeken on the Cordillera Peoples Alliance in the Philippines
Bestang Dekdeken discusses the work of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance and their struggle in the Philippines Cordillera region to defend their land against the government and mining corporations.