NEW YORK (25 October 2022) – Historical and ongoing discrimination, violence and hostility threaten the spiritual, cultural and even physical survival of indigenous peoples and violate their right to freedom of religion or belief, a landmark UN report concluded today. “Severe, systematic, and systemic discrimination and marginalisation affect indigenous peoples’ ability to survive, let alone thrive—by exercising their innermost religious or belief convictions,” said the report presented to the General Assembly by the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 25 October 2022. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
