ONLINE CURRENTS VOL3 - Flipbook - Page 36
Çxhab Wala Kiwe and the Eperara Euja world-territory of the Eperara Siapidaara people as
victims, taking into account that for some indigenous peoples the experiences of war are not
limited to the harm caused to the people, but that its consequences are also inscribed in the
beings that inhabit their territories and the natural environment itself. The disappearance of
charms, protective spirits or spiritual fathers represent a series of effects that transcend the
human realm, which is to say, they affect both the rights of individuals and the web of
relationships in which people, places and non-human agencies interact.”
In addition, it recognises other international human rights instruments that "vindicate
peasant communities as subjects of rights, highlighting their 'special bond of dependence
and attachment to the land', which involves water and nature, on which they depend for their
subsistence." A further contribution is the court's recognition of "biocultural rights that
acknowledge the profound and intrinsic connection that exists between nature, its resources
and the culture of the ethnic and indigenous communities that inhabit them, which are
interdependent and cannot be understood in isolation."
In this way, according to various Afro-Diasporic and indigenous cosmologies, what affects
the territory also affects the bodies of those who cohabit the territory. The earth is present in
The dog could not bark
when another master attacked his master
We are all dogs assaulted by silence
Blessed is the dog that is not a master
Outside are the owners of the dog pound
demanding from us more
production
lest we forget that we are at war
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