Minority and Indigenous Trends 2023 - Focus on water

As the third chapter in this report reveals, the case of landlocked regions across the Sahel is not dissimilar to that of Central Asian countries, where the desiccation of major lakes and seas – for instance the Aral Sea – has also led to the breakdown of social cohesion and large-scale conflict across and among former Soviet republics, affecting many minority and indigenous communities (see for e. [...] In addition, the environmental degradation of their lands and natural resources, derived from voracious investments and the lack of participation in decision-making processes, poses additional risks to their livelihoods and to their collective identities by destroying the biodiversity of their territories, polluting water resources, and forcing the displacement of entire communities. [...] To conclude, allow me to close with a self-critical acknowledgement to Indigenous Peoples, asking for forgiveness, as a white man who descends from colonizing powers, for the abuses and injustices committed; and to express my recognition and gratitude for the example of dignity, perseverance and wisdom that the Indigenous Peoples of the world have given us and continue to give us every day. [...] The combination of learning reinforces I am reminded by a senior Nyikina the importance of making time to elder named Joe Nangan about the stay connected with the laws of the importance of First Law stories, stories land, as opposed to the laws of man. [...] The colonial question to the Australian people: states of Australia each had their own constitutional relationship with the Do you approve the proposed law British sovereign rulers, established for the alteration of the Constitution to create wealth for private and entitled ‘An Act to alter the Constitution foreign interests, principally the British so as to omit certain words relating to Crown.