Indigenous people everywhere face serious human rights abuses and cultural genocide through forced relocations, loss of land rights, exposure to environmental hazards, violence, discrimination, denial of basic services (such as access to education, housing, clean water, and healthy food), and the forced separation of children and families. Both the human and political rights of Indigenous peoples are dismissed and attacked by the dominant colonialist cultures and governments around them. Despite this, Indigenous peoples are often on the forefront of environmental and human rights protests around the world. The struggle for Indigenous rights is a struggle for human rights and for the preservation of human knowledge and generational relationships with the environment.
A right delayed is a right denied.
