HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS ANNUAL PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
(WorldNews Switzerland)

19 September 2018 The Human Rights Council this morning held its annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples, focusing on the participation and inclusion of indigenous peoples in the development and implementation of strategies and projects in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the Sustainable Development Goals were an acknowledgment that development without people as its core beneficiaries was not development, merely economy, and that development that destroyed traditional culture, language, land and human heritage was not development - it was wilful destruction. Nowhere was...