[NYTr] How Chavez Changed Life in the Tribal Territories
 
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:13:27 -0500 (CDT)

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Le Monde diplomatique, July 2007 
http://MondeDiplo.com/2007/07/13newrights

 
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How Chavez Changed Life in the Tribal Territories
 
by Maurice Lemoine 

Article 119: The "multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual" state
recognises the rights of the indigenous peoples over the land they
traditionally and ancestrally occupied. They must demarcate that land
and guarantee the right to its collective ownership. 

Article 120: Exploitation by the state of natural resources will be
subject to prior consultation with the native communities. 

Article 121: The indigenous peoples have the right to an education
system of an intercultural and bilingual nature. 

Article 124: The registry of patents on native genetic resources or
intellectual property related to their ancestral knowledge about
biodiversity is prohibited. 

Article 125: Three native representatives will sit on the National
Assembly and there will be representatives in the municipal and regional
assemblies in regions with a native population. 

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