This Worldwide Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the SIRGE Coalition encourages you to take motion in assist of Indigenous communities who’re going through threats from mining for transition minerals.
One yr in the past at this time, Cultural Survival, First Peoples Worldwide, Batani Basis, Earthworks, and the Society for Threatened Peoples joined forces to launch the SIRGE Coalition devoted to Securing Indigenous Folks’s Rights within the Inexperienced Economic system. SIRGE urges governments, companies, and monetary decision-makers to safeguard Indigenous Folks’s rights and self-determination within the power transition and to keep away from the errors and harms of previous useful resource improvement.
To commemorate the SIRGE Coalition anniversary and in observance of Worldwide Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, listed here are actions to take, campaigns to assist, and a wealth of data and tales to share highlighting the work of the SIRGE Coalition and companions all over the world.
Geographic distribution of mining projects, n = 5,097. Credit score: Nature Sustainability (2022).
1. Know the Info and Share the Statistics!
Demand for minerals corresponding to nickel, lithium, cobalt, and copper are predicted to skyrocket as nations transition from fossil gas economies. Within the absence of a complete evaluation of the dangers and harms and full participation of Indigenous Peoples, elevated mining for these minerals threatens Indigenous Peoples’ rights and territories.
Latest statistics:
Indigenous territories comprise important quantities of untapped heavy steel reserves all over the world, placing Indigenous lands and communities in danger.
Daily, Indigenous leaders danger their lives to guard their territories from mining.
About 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is managed by Indigenous Peoples, however irresponsible mining is threatening it.
- A 2020 study discovered that mining has the potential to influence 50 million sq. kilometers of Earth’s land floor, with 8% coinciding with Protected Areas, 7% with Key Biodiversity Areas, and 16% with Remaining Wilderness. 82% of this mining is for minerals required for renewable power expertise.
To realize a simply transition to a low carbon financial system to be achieved, governments and corporations should observe and implement the rights of Indigenous Peoples, together with the proper to Free, Prior, and Knowledgeable Consent, outlined within the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Peoples.
2. Urge the European Union to Embrace Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in its Inexperienced Transition Laws!
Contact EU legislators and urge them to incorporate references to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ILO 169, and the proper to Free, Prior and Knowledgeable Consent (FPIC) within the Company Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Essential Uncooked Supplies Act (CRMA).
Study in regards to the newest developments within the European Union.
3. Perceive the Impacts on Indigenous Peoples from Electrical Car Producers!
The worldwide Lead The Charge marketing campaign raises consciousness of the human and Indigenous Peoples’ rights, local weather, and environmental impacts that happen all through electrical car manufacturing.
Their 2023 industry leaderboard analyzed 18 main producers and located that Indigenous Peoples’ rights were the lowest-scoring category. Two-thirds of automakers scored 0% on Indigenous Rights Threat screening, and thus far, no automaker has applied concrete mechanisms to make sure that commitments to the rights of Indigenous Peoples are realized all through their provide chain.
RELATED: People of Red Mountain (PRM) has raised important and pressing issues concerning human, spiritual, and Indigenous Peoples rights violations by a proposed lithium mine that impacts the sacred panorama Peehee Mu’huh – Thacker Go in Nevada. In March 2023, SIRGE Coalition and PRM ready a letter to General Motors after the automaker invested $650 million into the mine, highlighting the corporate’s social insurance policies and requesting a gathering on the human rights implications of this funding. Thus far, the corporate has not responded.
4. Share Tales from Impacted Indigenous Peoples!
Take heed to radio programs and podcasts on the impacts of transition mineral mining and the SIRGE Coalition in English, Spanish, Quechua, Nahuatl from Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Rights Radio.
Meet Members of the SIRGE Coalition Steering Committee and study why this coalition is so essential for us all.
- PASANG DOLMA SHERPA (SHERPA), NEPAL, ASIA
- GIDEON SANAGO (MAASAI), TANZANIA, AFRICA
- GALINA ANGAROVA (BURYAT), CHAIR OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
- HINDOU OUMAROU IBRAHIM (MBORORO), CHAD, AFRICA:
- LESLEY MUÑOZ RIVERA (COLLA), CHILE, CENTRAL, SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN:
- KATE R. FINN (OSAGE), USA, NORTH AMERICA
- PAVEL SULYANDZIGA (UDEGE), CHAIR OF STEERING COMMITTEE
- RODION SULYANDZIGA (UDEGE), RUSSIAN FAR EAST, EASTERN EUROPE, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, CENTRAL ASIA, AND THE CAUCASUS:
Examine how mining for transition minerals is affecting Indigenous communities.
Study extra in regards to the organizations which launched SIRGE: Cultural Survival, First Peoples Worldwide, Batani Foundation, Earthworks, and the Society for Threatened Peoples.
5. Study extra about Worldwide Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples!
The annual International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples launches with a digital commemoration on Wednesday, August 9, 9:00-10:30 am ET. This yr’s theme: Indigenous Youth as Brokers of Change for Self-determination. Audio system share their experience and expertise in regards to the position of Indigenous youth in exercising self-determination within the context of local weather motion and the inexperienced transition, mobilizing for justice, and intergenerational connections. Register.
