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British Columbia Government and
Service Employees’ Union Aboriginal Council
(www.bcgeu.ca)
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It is estimated that
there are approximately 300 million indigenous and tribal peoples
throughout the world, representing the largest identifiable
disadvantaged group. Although the situations will differ, this
group is perhaps the most vulnerable, informal and excluded group of
workers.
Their earnings are much lower than other workers, and
women are often the most exploited and socially ignored group in
society
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Indigenous
people are a unique, identifiable group of individual human beings who
share a common ethnic background, history, culture, tradition,
cosmology, language, sense of community, and connection to the earth
(the land certainly, and perhaps the sea, as well).
Additionally, indigenous people are a unique, identifiable group of
individual human beings contending with external forces (political,
economic, cultural) which threaten its very collective survival,
including its use of traditional lands and territories.
Ref.: "Indigenous/Tribal Peoples and Trade Unions", PSI
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PSI Policy
At the World Congress Meeting in Helsinki
1993, PSI adopted Composite
Resolution No. 31/32 on Indigenous Peoples.
PSI is committed to encourage affiliates to take measures in their own
countries which directly assist indigenous people as seen in the Yokohama
Declaration in 1997. These measures will vary in accordance with the
circumstances of each affiliate but may include:
- Setting up dialogue with representatives
of indigenous people
- Providing information to union members
on issues of concern to indigenous people
- Providing particular avenues of
representation to indigenous people as members of the union
- Assisting affiliates that are providers
of government services to indigenous people to provide services in ways
acceptable to indigenous people
 Gender and Indigenous
Issues
News & Updates
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Violence perpetrated against the Indigenous peoples of Colombia
PSI affiliates CUPE, NUPGE and PSAC have sent a protest letter to the President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, urging him to put an end to the violence and massacres perpetrated against the indigenous communities across Colombia and particularly against the communities that have gathered in La Maria Piendamó. Attacks were launched by the Public Security Forces against the Indigenous Peoples in La Maria Piendamó where over one hundred persons were severely injured and at least two persons killed. Click here for more.
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Adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
With an overwhelming majority of 143 votes in favour, only 4 negative votes cast (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States) and 11 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly (GA) adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on September 13, 2007. The Declaration has been negotiated through more than 20 years between nation-states and Indigenous Peoples.
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UN’s Indigenous Forum issues clear recommendations
At the conclusion of its Sixth Session, members of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues issued clear recommendations in a range of areas considered critical for the physical, cultural and spiritual survival, identity and well-being of the more than 370 million indigenous people worldwide.
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