US Fails to Respond to UN Request; Western Shoshone Petition for Public Su

Posted: 4 January, 2006

The United States government has missed a year-end deadline to answer questions posed by a United Nations committee looking into charges of federal harassment of the Western Shoshone people.

But along with the Western Shoshone traditional government, the Western Shoshone Defense Project is determined not to let the matter die. The defense project is one of the local organizations with which Oxfam America partners.

The Western Shoshone maintain that the US government, through a host of measures including the seizures of livestock and the imposition of heavy trespass fines as well as attempts to privatize large tracts of land to multinational gold companies, is violating the rights of indigenous people to their ancestral lands—some 60 million acres that stretch across Nevada, Idaho, Utah, and California.

The Western Shoshone have now launched a nationwide petition calling on the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, or CERD, to act immediately to address the human rights violations the Western Shoshone have long endured.

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http://www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/news_updates/news_update.2006-01-04.6977033848/print.html

between bush and bolton -- i'm guessing it'll be a long time before they hear too.

The illegal cabal which has temporarily turned the U.S. into a fascist dictatorship is not the US.

Warns Syria to answer UN questions and ignores the UN Western Shoshone petition.