Rigoberta Menchu Backs
Bolivia Drive for Mother Nature
LA PAZ - Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner
in 1992 Rigoberta Menchu ratified her
support to Bolivian President Evo Morales to
protect Mother Nature.
Menchu, who is participating in the Latin
American and Caribbean Parliamentarian
Women's Conference, with venue in this
capital, championed an "ant" campaign by the
world indigenous people to raise mankind's
awareness of the climate change effects.
The acknowledged human rights activist
exhorted to boost a positive consciousness
about natural resources and put them at
humanity's service, because without Mother
Nature we have no life, she said.
"We have to take a global action and thus we
are here, supporting President Evo Morales,
who has called the international community
several times to raise our voices in unison
in defense of life," she stated.
The indigenous activist highlighted that to
the autochthonous peoples, Mother Nature is
not only a concept, a saying or a prepared
speech, but part of their philosophy and
their view of the world, "thus we are
committed to taking care of its health,
which is our own health," she said.
The two-day meeting will conclude on
Wednesday and was summoned to boost laws
oriented to full praxis of the indigenous
women's rights in the national and
international legislation.
Venezuelan National Deputy Noheli Pocaterra,
Nicaraguan Miskitu people leader Mirna
Cuningham, Ecuadorian Qechua leader Blanca
Chancoso, Venezuelan Indigenous People
Minister Nicia Maldonado and other figures
are also participating in the conference.
Bartolina Sisa National Indigenous Farmer
Women Confederation leader Leonilda Zurita,
Ministers Celima Torrico and Julia Ramos, of
Justice and Rural Development and Lands,
respectively, besides former Constitutional
Assembly president Silvia Lazarte
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