Comments on: UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues intervenes on REDD in Poznan http://www.redd-monitor.org/2008/12/02/unpfii-intervenes-on-redd-in-poznan/ news, views and analysis about reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dr. Amy Eisenberg http://www.redd-monitor.org/2008/12/02/unpfii-intervenes-on-redd-in-poznan/#comment-201 Dr. Amy Eisenberg Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:50:41 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=792#comment-201 Dear Colleagues, Thank you very much for your important contributions at the recent meetings in Poznan. I strongly urge UN bodies and agencies including the UNPFII to please engage Tibetan people in your UN programmes and projects regarding climate change and deforestation as China has devastated Tibetan forest ecosystems at an alarming rate causing lamentable consequences to Tibetan people, their dwellings, forests, water, pasturelands, watersheds, farms and livelihoods. Tibetan people are severely punished, abused and imprisoned for peacefully expressing their concerns to Chinese authorities therefore we need the assistance of the United Nations to intervene in substantive dialogue between Chinese government leaders and the Tibetan people who are suffering from hunger and displacement as a result of initiatives aimed at population transfer into Tibet. Tibetans are a minority in their once free and independent nation. I call on the UNPFII to please assist our Tibetan sisters and brothers of Tibet. This is a very serious matter of grave human rights and humanitarian concern. The Tibetan voice is muted in Tibet. China denies that there are indigenous peoples in Tibet and China and therefore does not abide by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We urge you to give the Tibetan situation careful consideration. There are many atrocities occurring in our world as I write, however the Tibetan situation remains dire because China is unwilling to hear the concerns of everyday Tibetan citizens regarding the serious social/cultural and environmental impacts to their sacred natural and cultural resources within their holy land. More than 1.2 million Tibetans were killed by Chinese forces and today 6 million Tibetans remain in Tibet. More than 6000 Tibetan temples and sacred scripts were demolished by Chinese invaders. Please help. "We cannot rewrite history but together we can determine the future." -Dalai Lama Sincerely, Dr. Amy Eisenberg World Care Project Manager for Tibetan Projects Sonoma County Indian Health Project Center for World Indigenous Studies Dear Colleagues,

Thank you very much for your important contributions at the recent meetings in Poznan. I strongly urge UN bodies and agencies including the UNPFII to please engage Tibetan people in your UN programmes and projects regarding climate change and deforestation as China has devastated Tibetan forest ecosystems at an alarming rate causing lamentable consequences to Tibetan people, their dwellings, forests, water, pasturelands, watersheds, farms and livelihoods. Tibetan people are severely punished, abused and imprisoned for peacefully expressing their concerns to Chinese authorities therefore we need the assistance of the United Nations to intervene in substantive dialogue between Chinese government leaders and the Tibetan people who are suffering from hunger and displacement as a result of initiatives aimed at population transfer into Tibet. Tibetans are a minority in their once free and independent nation. I call on the UNPFII to please assist our Tibetan sisters and brothers of Tibet. This is a very serious matter of grave human rights and humanitarian concern. The Tibetan voice is muted in Tibet. China denies that there are indigenous peoples in Tibet and China and therefore does not abide by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

We urge you to give the Tibetan situation careful consideration. There are many atrocities occurring in our world as I write, however the Tibetan situation remains dire because China is unwilling to hear the concerns of everyday Tibetan citizens regarding the serious social/cultural and environmental impacts to their sacred natural and cultural resources within their holy land. More than 1.2 million Tibetans were killed by Chinese forces and today 6 million Tibetans remain in Tibet. More than 6000 Tibetan temples and sacred scripts were demolished by Chinese invaders. Please help.

“We cannot rewrite history but together we can determine the future.”
-Dalai Lama
Sincerely,

Dr. Amy Eisenberg
World Care Project Manager for Tibetan Projects
Sonoma County Indian Health Project
Center for World Indigenous Studies

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