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Moreno Barco

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2022-10-12
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2022-10-12
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  1. “On behalf of my communities, my ancestors and the leaders of Colombia, I thank the Security Council very much for this opportunity and for allowing us to relate our story, our reality, our suffering and our hope that we experience in the ethnic territories in Colombia.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  2. “As we strive to make that dream a reality, we ask the international community to strengthen the direct presence of United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organizations in the territories most affected by war and violence by sending more frequent humanitarian missions to help safeguard the lives of people in the communities. We call for support for efforts to achieve humanitarian agreements and multilateral ceasefires, especially among the illegal armed actors who are in ethnic territories. We know from experience that humanitarian agreements and ceasefires save lives. We ask that more resources be allocated to strengthen grass-roots organizations and human rights defenders, especially for initiatives that allow us to build economic self-sufficiency in balance with nature and the environment and to combat climate change.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  3. “We trust that the Government of Gustavo Petro Urrego and Francia Márquez Mina will guarantee human dignity and that we ethnic peoples can be free to decide how we wish to live our lives, individually and collectively. We have suffered in the armed conflict. We have been confined and displaced, but today we dream of returning to our lands, where we were happy, to revel in our songs and dances, tell our stories as evening falls and when night comes, tend to our animals and our plants, sow seeds for food and for peace, frolic in the river and fish and experience the joy of climbing in the mountains and walking on the beaches with the sand between our toes. We dream of living freely and enjoying life in our territories.”

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  4. “We endure the war in our own bodies, through sexual violence, among other forms of violence, and also as the mothers of both victims and perpetrators. War and violence are equally tragic for those who bear arms, since most people are revolted by such acts. Today we want the entire world to know that our ancestral vision and the wisdom of our ethnic peoples are essential and must be included in the humanitarian dialogues in the quest for the peace we yearn for and for environmental conservation in our lands. Today in Colombia, we have hope. It is a dream come true to have Francia Márquez Mina — a Black woman born poor, a victim of the armed conflict, a defender of human rights, the environment and our territories — as Vice-President.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  5. “We are for our communities, for dialogue and for negotiations and agreements to end violence in the territories. Behind me there are two photographs. One is of Valeria Murillo, a 10-year-old girl who was killed in January during an illegal armed group’s incursion into the territories. Valeria was attending school and dreamed of becoming a dance teacher. She longed for a life of peace and freedom from violence. The other photograph is of Yuver Moreno, a boy who was recruited at the age of 12 by another illegal actor. In September 2021, at the age of 13, he died in a bombing by the security forces in which three other teenagers were also killed. But I also want to speak about the suffering of women.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  6. “Only when total peace is achieved and a comprehensive State presence established will it be possible to guarantee our rights and permanence on the land in accordance with what we have established independently in our plans for ethnic development. The San Juan River and the Pacific are suffering because of a never-ending war in which armed actors — legal or illegal — want to subject us to their ideals. They all believe themselves to be benevolent saviours, but their actions nonetheless make us a military target. Today, as the ethnic populations of the territories, we ask that all armed actors, legal or illegal, refrain from making us part of their conflict and respect our decision to be neutral. We are neither for nor against any armed actor, legal or illegal.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  7. “There are two main causes of the ethnocide that Colombia’s black and indigenous communities are enduring, the first being the systematic violation of our economic, social, cultural and environmental rights. The State’s racist and classist abandonment of us means that our human rights are not guaranteed. That has led to the destruction of one of the most biodiverse places in the world through legal and illegal extractive industries. The second cause is the armed conflict that has brought war to our territories. We have been massacred, displaced, confined, threatened and killed, leaving our lands to be occupied and exploited by narrow economic self-interests against our will. ACADESAN and the indigenous communities in San Juan are facing dispossession of more than 32,450 hectares by extractive industries and foreign megaprojects.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source

  8. “My name is Elizabeth Moreno Barco, and I am the legal representative of the Community General Council of San Juan (ACADESAN). I want to thank God for the life of each and every person listening to me, for my ancestors and for the leaders and communities that for decades have defended our territories and our right to a dignified life. I thank the delegation of Gabon, as President of the Security Council, for inviting us into this Chamber. I am a Black person from the department of Chocó, a subregion of San Juan. I represent 72 communities — approximately 4,500 families — across an area of 683,591 hectares. I will speak about the communities that I represent, but also about the Black, indigenous and peasant communities throughout the entire Colombian Pacific who are undergoing a process of physical and cultural extinction.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9151 (2022) · source