Indigenous Peoples and Globalisation with Victoria Tauli Corpuz

Thursday 30 July 2015Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations. She has been a long time environmental activist in the Philippines. She has extended her activism to work with Indigenous peoples on these issues globally. She is co-author with Gerry Mander of a book Paradigm Wars: Indigenous peoples Resistance to Economic Globalisation.This lecture reflects on the reasons why local Indigenous communities continue to suffer disproportionately the negative impact of corporate activities, and why community leaders and activists suffer a true escalation of violence at the hands of government forces and private security companies.In the spirit of consensus building and drawing on the guiding principles that underpin UN principles of human rights this lecture considers how to reinforce the primacy of human rights in the development of international instruments and laws regulating business activities, for at present the cost paid by Indigenous peoples, and many other human communities is too high. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.