United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The Declaration of Rights on the Indigenous people all apply to the Lubicon People. I talked about the Lubicon people in my earlier post and how the Canadadian government is trying to take their oil on their lands. Article 2 from the declaration is Indigenous people and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and individuals and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity. I think that the Lubicon people are being taken advantage of because of their skin color. They're black and they aren't very globalized like the world today were we live. Just because they have a different color of skin doesn't mean they aren't equal to the white people. They are different because of their skin, but we don't need to be racist towards them and discriminate them because of their race.

Ariticle 7 has 2 points and I used the second one that mentions Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group to another group. This is especially important to the Lubicon people because the government has forced themselves into their lands and taken their oil. This article shows that the Lubicon people have the right to live in peace and security. The government took that away from them and they had suffered. The moose habitat had been disrupted causing the trappers and many other groups to live of off social assistance. This is not the Lubicon people living in freedom, peace, and security at all. The other people and governments need to respect their laws especially the declaration of rights.

Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return. I think that this is an important article because this shows that the government cannot force them out to take their oil. It is their land and they can't be forced to leave because of this article, number 10.