DoomsdaysCW<p>Wet'suwet'en Testify on Police Brutality, Imprisonment, at Inter-American Commission on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p><p>By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 10, 2023</p><p>"Wet’suwet’en described their struggle to defend their land, waters, and rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in a virtual hearing. Joined by Amnesty International, representatives from the Nation described the ongoing unjust <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/criminalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminalization</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/harassment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harassment</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> opposing the construction of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoastalGasLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoastalGasLink</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CGL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CGL</span></a>) pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. The Canadian government responded to the testimony of the Wet’suwet’en delegation. The testimony described the attacks on the Nation’s rights, including the right to free, prior and nformed consent to resource-extraction projects affecting their territory, as upheld in the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."<br> <br>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07</span><span class="invisible">/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceBrutality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wetsuweten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wetsuweten</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeclarationOfRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfRights</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pipelines</span></a></p>