14. januar 2010
Verdens oprindelige folkefærd lider af disproportionale og ofte eksponentielt højere niveauer af fattigdom, sundhedsproblemer, kriminalitet og menneskerettighedskrænkelser. Det første FN-studie af sin slags nogensinde blev fremlagt i dag og understregede selvbestemmelse og jordrettigheder som vitale for de oprindelige folkefærds overlevelse.
Startling figures contained in The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples include:
•In the United States, a Native American is 600 times more likely to contract tuberculosis and 62 per cent more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
•In Australia, an indigenous child can expect to die 20 years earlier than his non-native compatriot. The life expectancy gap is also 20 years in Nepal, while in Guatemala it is 13 years and in New Zealand it is 11.
•In parts of Ecuador, indigenous people have 30 times greater risk of throat cancer than the national average.
•Worldwide, more than 50 per cent of indigenous adults suffer from Type 2 diabetes – a number predicted to rise.
“Every day, indigenous communities all over the world face issues of violence and brutality, continuing assimilation policies, dispossession of land, marginalization, forced removal or relocation, denial of land rights, impacts of large-scale development, abuses by military forces and a host of other abuses,” the report’s authors said in a news release.
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