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structures, numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for
women in poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
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Natural Economic Order
Revised English
edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228
Edition 1:
The following unofficial English translation of articles 119-126 of
Venezuela's 1999 constitution on the rights of indigenous peoples is taken
from:
THE
C.A.C. REVIEW
Newsletter of the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink
Vol. 3, Issue No. 6
July, 2002
ISSN 1684-0232
Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink, 2002
Special
Issue:
The Rights of Venezuela's Aboriginal Peoples and the Constitution of 1999
A
New Reality for Venezuela's Indigenous Peoples
By Domingo Sanchez P., Director, FUNDESIN
Based on a paper presented at the 3rd Virtual Congress for Archaeology and
AnthropologyRed NAYA (NAYA Net)Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002.
(Translated by Maximilian C. Forte)
(Begin
quote)
Chapter
VIII, On the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in the aforesaid Constitution of
1999:
Article
119:
The State recognizes the existence of indigenous peoples and
communities, their social, political and economic organization, their cultures,
practices and customs, languages and religions, as well as their habitat and
original rights to the lands they ancestrally and traditionally occupy, and
which are necessary to develop and guarantee their way of life. It shall be the
responsibility of the National Executive, with the participation of the native
peoples, to demarcate and guarantee the right to collective ownership of their
lands, which shall be inalienable, not subject to the law of limitations and
nontransferable, in accordance with this Constitution and the law.
Article
120:
Exploitation by the State of the natural resources in indigenous
habitats shall be carried out without harming the cultural, social and economic
integrity of such habitats, and likewise subject to prior information and
consultation with the indigenous communities concerned. Profits from such
exploitation by the indigenous peoples are subject to the Constitution and the
law.
Article
121:
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their ethnic
and cultural entity, world view, values, spirituality and sacred places of
worship. The State shall promote the appreciation and dissemination of the
cultural manifestations of the indigenous peoples, who have the right to their
own education, and an education system of an intercultural and bilingual
nature, taking into account their special social and cultural characteristics,
values and traditions.
Article
122:
Indigenous peoples have the right to a full health system that takes
into consideration their practices and cultures. The State shall recognize
their traditional medicine and supplementary forms of therapy, subject to
principles of bioethics.
Article
123:
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and promote their own
economic practices based on reciprocity, solidarity and exchange; their
traditional productive activities and their participation in the national
economy, and to define their priorities. Indigenous peoples have the right to
professional training services and to participate in the preparation,
implementation and management of specific training programs and technical and
financial assistance services to strengthen their economic activities within
the framework of sustainable local development. The State shall guarantee to
workers belonging to indigenous peoples the enjoyment of the rights granted
under labour legislation.
Article
124:
Collective intellectual property rights in the knowledge, technologies
and innovations of indigenous peoples are guaranteed and protected. Any
activity relating to genetic resources and the knowledge associated with the
same, shall pursue collective benefits. The registry of patents on this
ancestral knowledge and these resources is prohibited.
Article
125:
Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in politics. The State
shall guarantee indigenous representation in the National Assembly and the
deliberating organs of federal and local entities with an indigenous
population, in accordance with law.
Article
126:
Indigenous peoples, as cultures with ancestral roots, are part of the
Nation, the State and the Venezuelan people, which is one, sovereign and
indivisible. In accordance with this Constitution, they have the duty of
safeguarding the integrity and sovereignty of the nation.
The
term people in this Constitution shall in no way be interpreted with the
implication it is imputed in international law.
(Gaceta
Oficial de la Repzblica de Venezuela N0 36860. 30 de diciembre de 1999).
(End
quote)
For
the purposes of the Model for self-financing sustainable integrated
development, attention is drawn in particular to the second sentence of article
123:
"Indigenous peoples have the right to professional training
services and to participate in the preparation, implementation and management
of specific training programs and technical and financial assistance services
to strengthen their economic activities within the framework of sustainable
local development."
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