Shillong, Sept 26: Sustainable development for indigenous peoples in around the globe is not possible unless the basic human rights are at its centre. These rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and it includes our right to lives, free from deprivation and with full recognition of the need for sustainable livelihoods; to the rule of law and freedom from violencesaid Dino D. G. Dympep, Chairman Meghalaya Peoples Human Rights Council (MPHRC) & Permanent Representative to the UN while taking part in the just concluded High Level Political Forum (HLPF) Discussion on sustainable Development at the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly held at New York, USA.
sustainable development has important co-requisites that go beyond the environment to the economic system whose pressure can lead governments to destroy or sell out on natural capital including the indigenous peoples land, territories and resourcesaid Dympep.
While reflecting on the UN post 2015 agenda for sustainable development, Dympep stated that one Global Agenda must have proper clauses for transparency and clear mechanism for open information, regulation and redress since the civil society and the representative of the indigenous peoples has view the High level Political Forum as the central body to ensure greater accountability in this regard.
Ӊt needs well-regulated global regime that protect the environment and promote human rights without being used to bolster unfair trade practices, protectionism or international arbitration that supersedes and erodes national laws and policy spacee added.
one principles that should guide us include not only the precautionary principle and the principle of polluter pays, but also principles of equity and fairness as enshrined in the principle of common but differentiated responsibility, solidarity, and subsidiarity in the light of the principle of free, prior and informed consent, a principal that is articulated in several provisions of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoplesaid Dympep
Are living in a world with the largest generation ever of 1.8 billion young people. They need skills, education, and health; they must be supported to engage in this process as well as protecting their human rightsaid Dympep in his concluding remark.(SP News)
