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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
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<The stench of death>
<Canada's murdered women and girls.>
Between 8 Nov 2021 and July 2022 AL Jazeera published a serial of
articles (except one i.e. an Al Jazeera team)
all by the Cree-Iroquois Canadian-French journalist Brandi
Morin about femicides of Canadian Indigenous women and girls and
of Indigenous children who were abducted from their parents houses and
brought to residential schoolsof which each word is so
heartbreaking that it takes a lot of courage to read the whole serial. Still I challenge you to do so! I divided it according to the
number of articles and quoted from them ending with a read more URL.:
The symbol actually consist the sympols of
the 3 nations being
The Inuit, First Nation and the Metis.
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The Canadian-Indigenous versus the vatican
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The Guardian
10 Aug 2022
by Karen McVeigh and Klaus Thymann
<<'We borrow our lands from our children': Sami say they are paying for
Sweden going green.
It's just after sunrise near Jokkmokk, a small town north of the Arctic
Circle in Sweden, and Gun Aira, a reindeer herder, and her family are
gathering the animals for the long trip to the mountains. Following the
reindeer's spring migration through hundreds of miles of snow-covered
forests, to their calving area close to the Norwegian border, is a
centuries-old tradition. But today, the reindeer, capable of one of the
longest land migrations on Earth, will travel the 150 miles (250km) to
their calving grounds by road, in the back of a big lorry.
Aira, who recalls skiing alongside the reindeer in her youth, says
mo-ving them by foot is now impossible here, due to a habitat
dimini-shed by development. <A lot has changed> says Aira, from the
Sirges Sami community, the largest of 51 semi-nomadic herding groups in
Sweden. <The landscape is much more fragmented.> In Sweden's Arctic
north, the Sami (or Sámi), one of Europe's most distinct Indigenous
communities, are facing the loss of their culture, livelihood and
identity, they say, due to a failure to respect their rights. Forestry
and large-scale hydropower – 80% of which is on Sami land – has shrunk
winter grazing areas. Sixty years of logging and clearing has meant
forests rich in lichen, traditional grazing for reindeer, have declined
by 71% in Sweden. The herders' biggest challenge now, Aira says, is to <get
enough food for the reindeer, to find grazing areas that are connected.
It is almost impossible to feed them from nature only.> The climate
crisis in the Arctic, which is warming three times faster than the rest
of the world, is also disrupting grazing. In warmer winters, melting
snow turns to ice on the ground, which traps lichen underneath, further
cutting off the reindeer’s food supply. In winter, Aira has to supply
food for the reindeer, a species that has survived in this harsh
landscape since the ice age. <People don’t seem to understand – we are
changing our nature,> says Aira, whose two grownup children are
part-time herders. <How long can we keep doing this?>
They talk about the green transition. But the reindeer, and we, are
paying the price.
Mikael Kuhmunen, president of the Sirges Sami
Fewer than 10% of Swedish Samis are herders, but they are con-sidered
the custodians of Sami identity, culture and way of life. Without the
reindeer and the land on which they depend, but do not own, the Sami
people would not exist, Aira says. <During the war, we supplied food for
Sweden,> she says. <Now, they are in danger of losing a people – the
only nature-people they have.> An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Sami live
in Sapmi, formerly known as Lappland, which spans parts of Sweden,
Finland, Norway and Russia.
Sweden is renowned for its gender equality, extensive social safety net
and progressive stance on the climate crisis. It has invested hundreds
of billions of kronor in its northernmost counties, Norrbotten and
Vasterbotten, where Hybrit, a fossil-free steel ini-tiative, and H2
Green Steel, two coal-free power plants, a gigafac-tory for electric
vehicle batteries, and a host of windfarms to power them, are planned.
But a growing backlash against the country's green transition and its
effect on the Sami people is shining a spot-light on its failure to
uphold Sami rights. In March, the environmental campaigner Greta
Thunberg denounced as <racist and colonial> Sweden's decision to grant a
permit to a British company, Beowulf Mining, for an opencast iron-ore
mine in Gallok, because of its impact on Sami people. UN rapporteurs
have condemned its failure to obtain the prior and informed consent of
the Swedish Sami, over the irreversible threat it poses to their lands,
livelihoods and culture.
In December 2020, the UN committee on the elimination of racial
discrimination (CERD) concluded that Swedish law discriminated against
the Sami. A legal opinion held that legislation did not enable free and
informed consent for the Sami in the permit-granting process for mining
concessions. Unlike Norway, Sweden has not ratified the 1989 indigenous
and tribal people’s convention, which would uphold Sami rights. It only
formally recognised the Sami language in 2000. Jenny Wik Karlsson,
senior legal adviser for the Swedish Sami Association, and the Swedish
Society for Nature Conservation are considering legal action against the
government’s decision to grant a permit at Gállok. <It is not over,>
Karlsson says. The first option is a formal complaint to the supreme
court of admi-nistration, to examine whether the government has
fulfilled its legal obligations. Then the case might be taken to the
environmental court. The case is <symbolic>, says Karlsson. <It gives a
clear view in how they are looking at Sami rights.....>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/10/indigenous-sami-reindeer-herders-sweden-green-transition
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