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LEARNING TO SEE WITH

THE EYE OFHENRY DUNANT

Principles in Practice: Exploring Neutrality

WORKSHOP MANUAL PART 2/6:

“Putting Indigenous People in the picture”

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY In order to enjoy he confidence of all, the movement may not take sides in hostilities or engage at any time in controversies of a political,racial, religious or ideological nature.

Easy questions questions, hard answers.

Does corporate funding compromise neutrality?

Do Indigenous Peoples get equitable access to ICRC?

(Unity, Humanity)

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Embracing difference -Seeing the whole repeated

In each of the parts.

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OBJECTIVES FRAMEWORK 6: ACCESS

This is not a set of objectives. It is a framework for memorising objectives.

1 Public involvement 2 General community climate3 Community roots 4 Partnership agencies 5 Specific services 6 Access 7 Infrastructure 8 Human resources 9 Redistribution of resources 10 Value for money

ACCESS

NEUTRALITY

Neutrality is not indifference, inaction, incapacity or cold compassionless closed doors behind the fence. Neutrality cannot be bought and sold.

Neutrality is action with a heart which beats the rhythms of humanity; with both ears open wide to hear each voice above chaotic war's insanity.

The neutral volunteer does not forget her ideology, religion, race or politics. She knows herself. And yet she knows there is more than one human face

Neutrality is not weak or naïve, steps boldly through barbed-wire, sees no sense in suffering, Not frightened to believe – neutrality embraces difference.

NEUTRALITY

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 1. PACIFIC ISLANDSThese people do not exist

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 2. BOTSWANAINDIGENOUS PEOPLE: BUSHMEN

CORPORATE ISSUE: DIAMOND MINING MOVEMENT ISSUE: ISSUE INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT

GENOCIDE

These people are not human

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 3. AMAZONIA

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: AMAZONIAN ‘INDIANS’

CORPORATE ISSUES: LOGGING, PHARMACOLOGYMOVEMENT ISSUES: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT“WHITE” DISEASES GENOCIDE

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 4. MEKONG DELTA

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: MEKONG DELTA FISHING COMMUNITY

CORPORATE ISSUES: DAM BUILDING; FISH FARMING; POLLUTION

MOVEMENT ISSUE: DESTRUCTION OF FISH STOCKS

These people‘s food is poisoned

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 5. NIGERIA

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: NORTHERN NIGERIANS CORPORATE ISSUE: OIL; MIGRANT WORKERS

MOVEMENT ISSUES: INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT; POLLUTION; GENOCIDE

Can you imagineif she was in your shoes and

You were barefoot?

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 6. PACIFIC COAST INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: KWAKIUTL

CORPORATE ISSUE: FISH FARMINGMOVEMENT ISSUE: FISHING RIGHTS, CULTURAL GENOCIDE

These people’s fish are driven out by farms

These people are fighting in the courts

Kwakiutl Territorial Fisheries Commission Issues Ultimatum to Fish Farm Companies

"We have relied on the wisdom and traditional knowledge of our elders for thousands of years. To us this traditional knowledge is more important than any studies, and based on this knowledge, we have been continuing our struggle against the aquaculture industry which infringed upon our inherent aboriginal rights by encroaching in our territories violating our rights with the help of the governments."

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 7. NATIVE AMERICAINDIGENOUS PEOPLE: NATIVE AMERICANS

CORPORATE ISSUE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYMOVEMENT ISSUE: DIGNITY; GENOCIDE; LAND RIGHTS; HEALTH

These people are history (were exterminated)

Preservation of human dignity, indeed....

Chinook, Cheyenne,Sioux, Apache helicopters...tomahawk cruise missiles..

...is a disguisting insultto all those struggling

for social justice..

..placing Native nameson weapons of mass destruction

to exterminate poor and oppressed people....

What's in a name

to place Native names on weapons of mass destruction to exterminate other poor and oppressed peoples to preserve the so-called American way of life is a disgusting insult to all those struggling for social justice.....

....(the) stark reality (is) that Native communities suffer the highest unemployment, alcohol and drug addiction, school drop-outs and infant mortality of any nationality.

HUMAN DIGNITY

I saw that when I moved from the Norwegian Red Cross to the United Nations, I was moving from a truly international voluntary movement that embodies the spirit of people’s commitment to assist each other; to a United Nations that is striving to put people at the center of a multilateral approach and where we have a common commitment to respect human dignity. It is all too easy to forget that human dignity is at the very heart of our humanitarian work. It is the central pillar of humanitarian endeavour. Yet, we live in a world where humanitarian assistance is frequently seen as part of a “humanitarian enterprise”. Where all too often humanitarian action is only seen as the movement of goods and commodities. Where the constant mass media images of distress are no longer capable of shock. This is why we risk dehumanizing our understanding of the very nature of distress.

Statement by Mr. Jan EgelandUnder-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairsand Emergency Relief Coordinatorto the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

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EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 8. GUATEMALAINDIGENOUS PEOPLE: GUATEMALANS, MAYAN PEOPLES

CORPORATE ISSUE: PLANTATIONSMOVEMENT ISSUE: RESETTLEMENT OF DEMILITARISED

PERSONELL

It must not happen to these

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9 EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 9. CENTRAL AMERICA

THIS IS AN END PRODUCT - WHAT IS IT TO ME?

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10 EXPLORING NEUTRALITY:10. IRELAND

THIS PAINTING WAS MADE BY A GROUP OF TRAVELLERS IN DERRY