UN body says Sioux must have say in pipeline project

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

UN body says Sioux must have say in pipeline project

Michael Astor, Associated Press

Updated 6:17 pm, Wednesday, August 31, 2016

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe must have a say with regard to a $3.8 billion oil pipeline that could disturb sacred sites and impact drinking water for 8,000 tribal members, representatives of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues said Wednesday.

In a statement, the forum's chairman Alvaro Pop Ac called on the U.S. to provide the tribe a "fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process to resolve this serious issue and to avoid escalation into violence and further human rights abuses."

Dalee Dorough, an Inuit member of the forum, which provides representation at the world body for indigenous peoples around the globe, said failure to consult with Sioux over the project violated the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Article 19 of the declaration, which the U.S. endorsed in 2010, says: "States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/UN-body-says-Sioux-should-have-say-in-pipeline-9196110.php

[forest444]

1. "But, but - it's safe!" said Fatty Dalrymple.

The governor of North Dakota claims there'd be no risk to the Sioux people's drinking water.

Yet he personally nixed a previous route for the same pipeline that would have been built near Bismarck because (wait for it) it would be a risk to their drinking water.

Another Rick Snyder in the making.

[CanonRay]

2. How inconvenient

when OUR United Nations tells us were full of shit.

[niyad]

3. this should prove interesting

[turbinetree]

4. Dear Mr. Obama this country has been a founding member of the United Nations from its inception

this country did the following


http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/global-indigenous-issues/un-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html


https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/united-states/victory-us-endorses-un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples

[suffragette]

5. K&R

[malthaussen]

6. Cool. Now how do they enforce this?

Does the U.S. call out its military force to make the U.S. comply?

-- Mal

[The2ndWheel]

7. Wait, where was the UN when America was being formed?

You know, the whole manifest destiny thing. Oh yeah, the US won and created the UN.

1) US
2) UN
3) Everyone else

The US will listen if it wants to, not because it has to.