falsify minutes of meeting with indigenous organizations
11/03/2011 - What about good faith? Apparently is circulating a document that allegedly falsified the main leaders of indigenous organizations in the country "recognize" the "process of free, prior and informed" about the Forestry Law. Peru was able to alert the alleged signatories confirm that this is not the document leaders who affixed their signatures. According AIDESEP, this maneuver would seek to prevent the enactment of the Act prior consultation, to "prove" that consultation with indigenous peoples can be accomplished through informal processes and without a clear methodology, as organized by the Land Commission.
The paper leaves no doubt . Under the plain wording of four items include the signatures of 11 persons: 10 indigenous leaders and the president of the Agrarian Commission, the APRA Aníbal Huerta. However, the font and the clarity of the print is clearly different in the case of the latter, being easy to suspect that the firms have been "copied and pasted "crudely with a graphics program.
To confirm the complaint launched by AIDESEP, Peru Alert contacted several of the leaders entered: all those with whom we communicate confirmed the fact. "It is true that section 3 which states that 'recognize' the consultation," says Joseph porter, Regional Organization Aidesep - Ucayali (ORAU). "They see my name typed as computer, when I wrote my name with pencil and then I signed," he said. For its part Antolin Huascar, head of the National Agrarian Confederation, states that "representatives of organizations assist in good faith, but never mentioned that paragraph 3 of the Act. "
Edson Rosales, national communications coordinator AIDESEP, explains, "the 5 and 7 March, a meeting between the leaders and the Land Commission. At the end of the meeting signed a memorandum of 8 pages, which detailed the agreements, as do audiences in Atalaya and other areas and postpone the so-called 'national conference'. But the leaders never accepted the proposal Orchards 'recognize' the process that the Commission has taken so far, because the position of organizations is very clear, that it was an informative process rather than consultation. It is not consultation because We have the opinion of the Commission in December, and there is no way to change that opinion, then how will be consulted?. "
After the meeting, so surprising given organizations with a record (available here) one page, apparently manipulated graphically and in which 10 community leaders appear to validate the information process as they were "consulting." According to a statement from AIDESEP , the objective of this maneuver is to use the record "as precedent to say that 'is no longer necessary consultation framework law" and simply replicate its methodology to make them in any way, which involved "Individuals" and not just organizations, to "choose" what can and can not debate, just three days to see hundreds of items. "
Until the end of this note was not possible to contact the Agricultural Commission's advisers, who were excused for being "in session". Through social leaders knew that, precisely, the Commission were summoned to a meeting to clarify this claim.
worth mentioning that the 4141 bill of "Forestry and Wildlife Law" shall replace the Legislative Decree 1090, enacted without consultation in 2007 and repealed by the government after protests in Bagua. After the tables dialogue that followed the conflict, the Executive introduced this new project, as organizations, does not include the agreements reached. To fulfill the mandate of prior consultation with indigenous peoples, enshrined in ILO Convention 169, the Land Commission began a series of "hearings", however indigenous organizations believe that it is not even "see" but only information, because it lacks an appropriate intercultural approach because there is no way to ensure that the views of participants will be incorporated in the Act
AIDESEP complaint that the logic of the Forest Act would "latifundios timber "and affect the rights of ownership of indigenous peoples, amongst other matters in question. (PM)
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