ISBN:
978-87-93961-23-4
ISSN:
1024-0217
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (824 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
IWGIA_Book_The Indigenous World 2021_ENG.pdf
Keywords:
Menschenrecht Indigenität
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Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
;
Epidemie
Abstract:
Throughout 2020, Indigenous Peoples were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with, among other things, lack of access to proper health services, limited health information in Indigenous languages, minimal to no virtual education opportunities for Indigenous students and closure of markets for the sale of goods. Indigenous Peoples proved their resilience by setting up their own networks and solutions, connecting communities to help transfer information and goods, and implementing traditional methods of protection to keep themselves safe from the virus and the intrusion of outsiders who potentially carried it. Nonetheless, as the pandemic spread, Indigenous Peoples continued to be persecuted, threatened, criminalised and killed in their efforts to defend their rights, sometimes under the guise of emergency laws enacted to mitigate the virus, but which also allowed for Indigenous Peoples` rights to be violated and their lands to be exploited. (Umschlagtext)
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