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Washington, March 25 (EFE) .- peoples Defenders voluntarily isolated indigenous reported today before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the pressures these communities in the Amazon Region and the Gran Chaco.
Indians who have chosen to live isolated from the rest of society in Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador occupied territories rich in natural resources, goals of big business, so being forcibly displaced.
This was explained today Mike Berry, counsel for the International Indigenous Committee for the Protection of Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact in Amazonia, the Chaco and the Eastern Region of Paraguay (CIPIACI).
The Commission, an independent agency of the Organization of American States (OAS) today began its public hearings as part of its 141st session, which began last March 21 and runs until April 1.
The forced contact between peoples in voluntary isolation and other communities is seen as ethnocide only one of the six countries listed, Ecuador.
However, the situation of these peoples is similar in all these, where they are being harassed to leave their land, according to Berry reported.
The conflict intensified last ten years, when the exploitation of natural resources was that the areas where these communities live will become more accessible and less remote as they once were.
"States yield to the interests of large companies and allow the taking of lands of these Indians to enable them to exploit their natural resources like gas, oil and water" CIPIACI said President Jaime Corisepa.
When people in isolated villages in contact with people outside the community epidemics of diseases such as influenza, as they are very vulnerable to have remained isolated from society throughout their lives, reported Corisepa.
CIPIACI The hearing was subject, so that the space reserved for the representation of the State concerned was empty.
"We were going to a particular Government, but could have come to discuss the situation any of the six countries concerned. Here is their interest in these towns, "said President CIPIACI Efe after the hearing.
The Commission will consider introducing a specific article on indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation in the future declaration the rights of indigenous peoples, which is currently being drafted.
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