Indigenous and Human Rights in Latin America

Indigenous and Human Rights in Latin America.

James Cockcroft, Internet Professor, State University of New York and Fellow at the International Institute for Research and Education.

Professor Cockcroft examines todays processes of revolt among indigenous peoples in Latin America, in particular in Bolivia and Ecuador, involving attempts at new practices of plurinational and intercultural forms of democracy, ecologically sustainable development, community-based autonomies, and solidarity with other sectors of society locally, regionally, and internationally. He will focus especially on the re-founding of national states and US-European interventionism in the context of UN declarations on indigenous rights, human rights, and national sovereignty.