{"id":34704,"date":"2024-08-09T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T07:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=34704"},"modified":"2024-08-09T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:21:47","slug":"august-9-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/breaking-news\/august-9-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"August 9 \u2013 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 9<\/span>th<\/span><\/strong> of August is an annual occasion to draw attention to the needs of indigenous communities suffering from the consequences of colonization, the barbaric activities of mining companies, and the constant encroachment of the state and business on their traditional lands. In Russia, indigenous peoples and national minorities face racism<\/a>, structural discrimination, and xenophobia; their rights are violated, including freedom of expression and association, the right to self-determination, and cultural rights.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

During the last 40 years, international law and institutions in this field actively developed and became part of the global anti-colonial and human rights agenda. Finally, the international community has come to an understanding of the value of the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples and the fragility of their natural habitat, inseparable, in fact, from their culture and way of life. It was recognized that it is finally necessary to provide Indigenous peoples with \u201cdevelopment, \u00a0peace and security, and human rights that too many have been denied for too long\u201d, as it was <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (2005).<\/span><\/p>\n

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This year, Russia “celebrates” the Day of Indigenous Peoples with the unprecedented criminalization of indigenous activism. At once, 55 organizations were included in the list of “extremists”, being declared by the Ministry of Justice as “structural units” of the non\u2013existent “Anti-Russian separatist movement” \u2013 that, in its turn, was recognized as “extremist” and banned by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on June 7, 2024. Thus, both based in Russia and abroad, both formal and informal organizations and groups that promote the agenda of anti-colonialism, various kinds of emancipation, and the rights of national minorities found themselves in the register. Among them, there are the Aborigen Forum, an informal all-Russia network of activists of indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, the expert group Indigenous Russia<\/a>, the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia (ICIPR)<\/a>. The latter was created by forcibly emigrated activists after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion to Ukraine; this groups is well-known for its uncompromising anti-war position.<\/p>\n

3 statements of human rights organizations and initiatives against the recognition of extremist organizations defending the rights of indigenous peoples:<\/strong><\/p>\n