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Events featured Next event: Drums for the land 20 Mars 2023 Drums for the earth To celebrate the Summer Solstice and the beginning of the half-year session of the Human Rights Council in 2021, we organized a drum circle, with the installation of a tipi and a haima (traditional house of the Saharawi people, in Western Sahara) in the Place de Nations. The drum is a ritual instrument used worldwide by many indigenous peoples to connect with the earth. In Europe for instance, the Sami people use it in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. In Basel, Switzerland, there is a long-standing custom connected to drumbeats. tambores por la tierra Word Circle As a complement to the EMRIP's regular sessions, we have installed an intercultural tipi in the Place de Nation in collaboration with Mos-Espa since 2018. As a complement to the EMRIP's regular sessions, we have installed an intercultural tipi at the Place de Nation in collaboration with Mos-Espa since 2018. From July 9 to 13, that year, we held the KUBUN ISTYSUKA circle of words, where Genevans could meet representatives of the world's indigenous peoples through dialogues, crystal glass concerts, and other ceremonial music. Among the indigenous representatives who have participated in this space during the following years, we have marakames from the Wixarika (Huichol) people of Mexico, who have also brought us their music, with a representation of the MAIS (Indigenous and Social Alliance Movement of Colombia), to draw attention to the murders of indigenous leaders, peasants, and environmentalists in Colombia since the signing of the peace accords in 2016. At the time, 1,065 people had been murdered (December 2020)_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_ circulode la palabra Play list

Maloca Internationale at the UN Learn more here Last News Next event: Drums Circle 21 Mars 2024 About Maloca Internationale What is the purpose of Maloca Internacionale? ​ Maloca Internationale, a Permanent Observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO in Geneva, is a key advocate for Indigenous Peoples' intellectual property rights. Indigenous Peoples' knowledge, genetic resources, and traditional cultural expressions are highly valued and have historically been expropriated (bio-piracy) by the West. ​ ​ Faced with this, our minimum standard is the recognition of Indigenous Peoples' moral rights over certain genetic resources' medicinal knowledge, and we hope to find sui generis formulas for the protection of their intellectual property, with our presence in Geneva. Indigenous Rights Prior, free and informed consultation Traditional medicine UN Human rights Human rights in Latin America - Intergovernmental Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Caucus Statement Free expression and determination Self Determination 7 socio-cultural regions Socio-cultural regions of the planet events Drums across the land The word circle UN Conferences

Our identity We are an organization that considers and believes that "drop by drop the rock is drilled", that is, we try to do our part of the work, and we invite others to do their part, from their place and with their resources, in the creation of a harmonious world for the beings who inhabit it. We carry out our mission with sensitivity, optimism, and perseverance. Mission Maloca Internationale is an NGO with consultative status before the United Nations, which promotes the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Declaration of the Rights of Minorities and the human right to a healthy and sustainable environment in the construction of global governance. Vision We are recognized specialists in intellectual property, development and traditional knowledge, as well as trusted partners in the multilateral system for human and environmental rights defenders on the ground. We are also recognized advocates of the non-human as a subject of rights. Values Recognition of the self-determination of peoples. Respect for ancestral knowledge and non-Western genetic resources. Dialogue for diplomacy, for peace and cooperation. Important moments 2014 crossroads of cultures In order to launch Maloca Internationale in the canton of Geneva, we participated in the “Cross Cultures” event, organized by CAGI, International Geneva Welcome Service, on Saturday, September 6, 2014. In this event, we proposed the “Home, Sweet Home” activity, where children and adults had images of 7 indigenous ceremonial houses from each of the seven socio-cultural regions of the planet (Africa; Asia; Central and South America and the Caribbean; the Arctic; Central Europe and East, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia, North America, and the Pacific). The activity consisted of matching each of these houses with the photo of the predominant material in the construction of each of them. 2015 We have sown seed, alliance with Horyou In its second year in Geneva, Maloca Internationale participated with the Horyou Foundation (www.horyou.com ) at the Global Ethics and Innovation Forum (video:www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTKwyjZHeK4 ). In this Forum, we held an exhibition of handicrafts made with seeds and tropical fruits, which was later transferred to the Viverra Coffee gallery-café, in the center of Geneva. 2016 Indigenous medicine at the UN In its third year of existence, Maloca Internationale carried out two major activities at the Geneva headquarters of the UN. On the one hand, there was an ayahuasca ceremony in Geneva and a conference on indigenous medicines at the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Accompanied by the taita Florentino Agreda of the Inga people, we also participated in the Committee on Civil and Political Rights with the proposal to recognize the use of sacred plants by indigenous peoples in the prior, free and informed consultations that the State must organize when planning economic or legal actions that may affect the rights of indigenous peoples. 2017 Anniversary declaration of the human rights of indigenous peoples 2017 marked the tenth anniversary of the adoption, by the UN General Assembly, of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007). Maloca Internationale prepared in 2016 a video with images of the ayahuasca ceremony that took place in Geneva to commemorate the adoption of this instrument at the UN (www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Ux0kE3IRA ). In collaboration with Iceers and Umiyac, a conference with traditional doctors from the Colombian Amazon was organized during the Human Rights Council in September 2017; In July, we discussed during the Mechanism of Experts on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples about the sacred plants of indigenous peoples in the global market, with the participation of representatives of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan (Ecuador). 2018 UN Plaza intervention and indigenous traditional medicine As of this year, Maloca Internationale decided, in agreement with various partners and notably the Mos-Espa association of Geneva, to intervene in a place charged with symbolism of the city of Geneva, the Place des Nations, in front of the Palais des Nations, UN headquarters in the city. To do this, a tipi has been installed in parallel to the sessions of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, throughout the week of July 9 to 13. In this type, medicines from indigenous peoples were shared with those attending the Expert Mechanism and local inhabitants. Inside the Palace of Nations, in collaboration with the Iceers Foundation, a conference was held on sacred plants and prior, free and informed consultations of indigenous peoples 2019 Wirikuta nature reserve non-intervention conference. In collaboration with the Wirarika Union of Ceremonial Centers (Mexico), we held a conference at the UN on the need to preserve the Wirikuta nature reserve from mining projects that put the Peyote cactus, an endemic plant species in said reserve, at risk. Peyote is central to the culture of the Wirarika indigenous people, comparable to the importance of the yaje bejuco species for the peoples of the Colombian Amazon. In association with the Movement against Racism and for the Friendship of the Peoples MRAP, we use two of the instruments on drug policies of the Human Rights Council (resolution 37/42 and report 39/39) to insist on the non-advisability of the use of glyphosate in the policy of eradication of illicit crops in Colombia. This policy does not discriminate between the coca leaf cultivated for traditional purposes and crops destined for drug production, as argued in our intervention before the plenary session of the Human Rights Council. 2020 Tipi in the UN Plaza in tribute to assassinated leaders and voice of social nonconformity In the face of the systematic assassination of social leaders in Colombia, we dedicate our teepee at the United Nations in their memory, and particularly to indigenous leaders, and to the indigenous and social movement; this as a parallel activity to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Video tipi:https://twitter.com/MovimientoMAIS/status/1334515743015268362?s=20&t=b7s0ZJF4Pc9NzPgr_ybosQ ). This year, we accompanied Colombian civil society in exile in their demonstrations against human rights violations in Colombia (www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xHuPY9nS78&t=12s ) and we try to take their voice to the United Nations (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIZfp3MJcyQ&t=383s ). 2021 Oversight of the European Union in the Colombian elections On the summer solstice (June 21) together with the Saharawi people, who installed a haima (traditional desert house) in the Plaza de Naciones, we held a demonstration for the right to self-determination of peoples. In the case of Colombia, we emphasized the right to elect and be elected (www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmrOeF86lR8 minute 11:57 – 13:54). We focus our declarations at the UN on this point, fundamental given the 2022 elections. With the support of the human rights coordinator of the Tolima Regional Indigenous Council CRIT, we have advocated oversight by the European Union in the Colombian elections (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QbFK0uFf8&lc=UgwSCWCQfutdO_rd-j94AaABAg ), something that has finally been achieved, thanks to the joint work of Colombian citizens in Europe (www.youtube.com/watch?v=udWLuP0e-eI ). 2022 International right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. By obtaining our consultative status at the UN, our work will be able to closely follow the proposals of the Human Rights Council, and participate in its sessions directly under our name. In order to publicize the relevance of the Human Rights Council in the search for solutions to the problems of the contemporary world, we have decided to install, with the support of the Mos-Espa association, our tipi in the Plaza de Naciones at the solstices and equinoxes of this year 2022. This tipi, animated by the sound of drums consecrated to our connection with the earth, serves to promote the historic resolution 48/13 of the Human Rights Council that for the first time recognizes at an international level, the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right. 1/16 1/6 1/7 1/2 1/2

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Traditional medicine Experimentation with substances that modify consciousness within a clinical and mental exploration framework developed in the first half of the 20th century. However, the international position adopted with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of the UN (1961) and the war on drugs of the Nixon administration (1969-1974) contributed to a widespread social and political rejection of psychoactive substances, although this position was always strong in the United States, as shown by the popular film “Reefer Madness” (1936). This misunderstanding of the experiences of modification of consciousness induced with psychoactive substances was extended to the use of the coca leaf by indigenous peoples, with the adoption of the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988). On the other hand, the listing of molecules such as mescaline and DMT among illicit substances, in accordance with the 1961 Convention and its 1972 protocol, and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, has created ambiguity about the international legal status of drugs. spiritual traditions of indigenous peoples that include plant species that contain such molecules. Faced with this situation, Maloca Internationale reminds that los items 24 y 31 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the article 25 of the ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of 1989, recognize the use of medicinal plants and traditions of indigenous peoples, and this includes those practices and substances with psychoactive components. We have participated in the negotiations of the resolutions on drug policy of the Human Rights Council and their respective studies, as well as in theUNGASS 2016 , where we have reached language that goes in the direction of our lobbying. See for example: “According to article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, religious minorities and indigenous peoples have the right to express their own freedom and beliefs. It has been indicated that this includes, in some cases, the use of controlled substances in religious and ceremonial practices when there are historical grounds for doing so (see A/HRC/30/65). The right of indigenous peoples to use controlled crops, such as the coca leaf, in their traditional cultural and religious practices is also supported by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (arts. 11, 24 and 31) and the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (no. 169) (arts. 3.2, 5 a) and 23)…See…the presentations of Maloca International…”. Source: “Implementation of the joint commitment to address and counter the world drug problem in relation to human rights” A/HRC/39/39, September 14, 2018, paragraph 70. ONU UN With a differential approach, we support the access of civil society and indigenous peoples in the institutional framework of the United Nations Organization: Treaty Bodies, Human Rights Council, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), special procedures, International Organization of Labor (ILO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York. In the Treaty Bodies, we present reports and manage the presence of delegates from civil society and indigenous peoples. These bodies have been created to evaluate the States that have signed the different UN treaties: Convention on the rights of children, women, persons with disabilities, against torture, against forced disappearances, for the elimination of racial discrimination, the Pacts of civil and political, social, economic and cultural rights. We can transmit information to the OHCHR and also get in touch with the rapporteurs and specialized working groups, such as the rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, against violence against women and girls, the working group on business and human rights. At WIPO, we bring the voices of civil society and indigenous peoples to the Committee charged with drafting international instruments on indigenous intellectual property. At ECOSOC we participate in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. The Administrative Council of the ILO is responsible for receiving allegations of non-compliance with Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. To send a complaint, it is necessary to go through a union that can transmit it to the Council. This problem regarding the participation of indigenous peoples has been present since the 1988 and 1989 negotiations that led to the adoption of the Convention, and was evoked in 2014, at the seminar held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Convention, where we were present (more information about the seminar ). Although this union mediation is essential to reach the Board of Directors, it is possible to access the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Service, to obtain advice on particular cases related to ILO Convention 169 derecho humanos Human rights Human rights in Latin America With a differential approach, we support the access of civil society and indigenous peoples in the institutional framework of the United Nations Organization: Treaty Bodies, Human Rights Council, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), special procedures, International Organization of Labor (ILO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York. In the Treaty Bodies, we present reports and manage the presence of delegates from civil society and indigenous peoples. These bodies have been created to evaluate the States that have signed the different UN treaties: Convention on the rights of children, women, persons with disabilities, against torture, against forced disappearances, for the elimination of racial discrimination, the Pacts of civil and political, social, economic and cultural rights. We can transmit information to the OHCHR and also get in touch with the rapporteurs and specialized working groups, such as the rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, against violence against women and girls, the working group on business and human rights. At WIPO, we bring the voices of civil society and indigenous peoples to the Committee charged with drafting international instruments on indigenous intellectual property. At ECOSOC we participate in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. The Administrative Council of the ILO is responsible for receiving allegations of non-compliance with Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. To send a complaint, it is necessary to go through a union that can transmit it to the Council. This problem regarding the participation of indigenous peoples has been present since the 1988 and 1989 negotiations that led to the adoption of the Convention, and was evoked in 2014, at the seminar held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Convention, where we were present (more information about the seminar ). Although this union mediation is essential to reach the Board of Directors, it is possible to access the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Service, to obtain advice on particular cases related to ILO Convention 169 grupo intergubernamental Intergovernmental Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights Binding international instruments, such as conventions or treaties, affect the life of the seven socio-cultural regions of the planet, since, despite abstentions, they are usually adopted and ratified by States around the world. An exception to this trend is, unfortunately, Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of 1989, which has only been adopted by 24 States, concentrated in the Central and South American region._cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Since 2015, the UN has been negotiating a new international treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights. These negotiations take place in a specific intergovernmental group, which is complemented by a forum where negotiations take place but which allows contact between different stakeholders in a more informal space. Maloca Internationale is active in the Forum and in the Intergovernmental Group, with the aim of ensuring recognition of prior, free and informed consultation, culturally adapted, of indigenous peoples. This mission has been manifested in our intervention during the third session of the working group, which began negotiating the first draft of the future agreement, in October 2017. Read our intervention on: DUE DILIGENCE AND CULTURALLY ADAPTED CONSULTATIONS . declaracin delcaucus Indigenous Peoples Caucus Statement The Indigenous Caucus gathered in the City of Geneva from November 25 to 28, 2018, in the framework of the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, with representation of various indigenous peoples of the world, we were able to confirm that non-compliance by states with the basic principles of international law , such as self-determination, respect to the exercise of self-government, el compliance with the fundamental right to consultation and prior free consent e informed, respect for the ancestral territories in which the communities live, the right of our own forms of economic, social and cultural development, to protect our struggles for better It is decent living conditions. ​ It was also evident that the companies, relying on the apathy and indifference of the state bodies, called to guarantee rights, continue to violate the fundamental rights to the consultation. and prior free and informed consent. In this Indigenous caucus, we pay tribute to all the leaders of our peoples, who have been systematically criminalized, threatened and persecuted, even killed, as a result of the defense they make of their territories, of the right to the exercise of self-government in a context of the imposition of extractive projects, energy and agroindustry._cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ ​ For these and many reasons, the Indigenous Caucus, we have agreed to the following demands that: States to. comply with their obligations to recognize the status of indigenous peoples around the world who live in their territories and to guarantee and apply the international regulatory framework , including the rights recognized in ILO Convention No. 169, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as the right to self-determination; to their lands, territories and natural resources; to their cultures and spiritual beliefs; to its own government and its customary rights , its own forms, practices and protocols to implement consultation and free, prior and informed consent; b. promote the full participation of peoples in all design stages, conduct, validation and verification of impact assessments on human rights . These evaluations must take into account the economic, social, environmental, and cultural_rights of indigenous peoples; c. pay special attention to the dimensions of macro-regional infrastructure projects and their cumulative and irreversible impacts on the human rights of indigenous peoples in multiple countries; d. ensure that companies respect the rights of indigenous peoples, including in their due diligence, and that states fully address the concerns of indigenous peoples when developing and implementing National Action Plans , this implies: ​ 1 • strengthening of judicial and administrative mechanisms, including through the training of judges and those responsible for developing policies on the rights of indigenous peoples;_cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ • effective follow-up and implementation of the recommendations of the OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) and other complaints mechanisms, including the recommendations of the Working Group on Business and Human Rights; • establishment of redress mechanisms for violations that occur both within state borders and for violations committed extraterritorially by corporations registered in their jurisdictions. Companies, including private investors, throughout the supply chain a. respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples, whether or not they are officially recognized b. assume their responsibilities and consistently implement rigorous, transparent, and effective due diligence processes regarding the individual and collective human rights of indigenous peoples, including the rights territorial, cultural and self-government and consent, free, prior and informed . International financial institutions, national and multilateral banks through its socio-environmental safeguards, require companies to fully comply with the Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights and the minimum standards enshrined in the Declaration of the United Nations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples before financing projects likely to affect ancestral territories and during their implementation._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf5cf58d_ All the actors mentioned with interests that remain to affect the ancestral territories a. protect and respect the rights of indigenous women and prevent the impacts of business activities, since they are the ones that guarantee the continuity of our peoples and their greatest vulnerability. b. refrain from implementing projects in conflict zones that put at risk the physical and cultural survival of indigenous peoples and the integrity of their territories c. refrain from implementing projects that affect the peoples in initial contact y voluntary isolation. d. adopt policies of zero tolerance for acts of violence, militarization, criminalization and labeling as terrorists, threats and accusations of indigenous communities and human rights defenders_cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Finally, we demand that the United Nations, including the Working Group on Business and Human Rights, make visible and promote the recommendations here included in all the spaces of its actions and with all the actors, and that they ensure y expand the spaces for participation of indigenous peoples in the Forum. ​ 2 We cannot speak of peace if we are violating Mother Earth, the woman, the giver of life. We declare from the heart of our territories that we will continue in their defense because our survival is that of humanity itself. libr dterminacion Free expression and determination Self determination Self-determination is a right that can be understood from an individual and/or collective perspective. This right refers to the capacity of the individual to exercise his freedom in society and against the State, and to the possibility of peoples to decide on their political organization and economic development. Based on self-determination, our NGO works for the freedom of individuals to express themselves and seek the type of experiences they freely choose for their existence, including their ways of healing themselves and the modification of their consciousness through psychoactive substances._cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Likewise, self-determination refers to the territories where peoples develop their existence, with the inherent right to decide on their political organization and economic priorities on these territories. This right is concomitant with prior, free and informed consultation when said territories are within the larger limits of a state entity, and implies respect for particular forms of culture, which may include the use of psychoactive substances. 7regiones 7 socio-cultural regions Forum on Business and Human Rights According to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, the seven indigenous sociocultural regions of the planet are: Africa Asia Central and South America and the Caribbean North America The Artic Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia The Pacific. In Africa, we are following the situation in Niger, where the exploitation of uranium by France compromises the health of the native population (See: parallel report at el CERD – Niger 2015 ). Western Sahara concerns us as an exemplary case of the right to self-determination denied by an occupying power (see: Parallel report in the CDESC ) In Asia, we work on the case of the city of Sinjar, attacked by the Islamic State in 2014. In alliance with local organizations, we present the Parallel report on Iraq in the_cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_CERD In the UN minority forum in 2018, we organized together with local organizations a panel on the case of stateless Kurds. The situation of minorities in Syria and Iraq has been addressed in the 2016 minority forum, and the case of minorities in Iran addressed in the 2017 Forum and in the Human Rights Council. In Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Amazonian and Andean peoples specialize in particular in traditional medicines such as Ayahuasca and Tobacco (seeour item ). As you can see in our section on the rights of indigenous peoples, in this socio-cultural region we have focused on free, prior and informed consultation, including such plants when relevant. In the Colombian Amazon, we have a civil society nature reserve project, and we have dealt with the defense of the rule of law in Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil (see the “our work” session). In North America, where the ritual use of peyote takes place, we have worked together with the Wixarika Union of Ceremonial Centers to assert the cultural heritage character of the Wirikuta desert, where peyote is an endemic species._cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Finally, we support the regulation of access to different medicines developed by the peoples of the seven socio-cultural regions of the planet in the globalized world. In Switzerland, we spread the efforts of the Mos-Espa association in the study of the responsible use of psilocybin mushrooms native to this region, by people interested in exploring modified states of consciousness through suitable mushroom species for it. events eventos most outstanding With the aim of disseminating in the local Geneva and the canton the discussions that take place within the UN, we have established a cooperative relationship with Mos-Espa, an association of wide recognition in Geneva, dedicated to carrying out artistic and festive activities. Thanks to Mos-Espa, we have carried out awareness-raising activities about the Mechanism of Experts on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples MEDPI, a specialized body of the Human Rights Council. Since 2018 we have installed, in conjunction with Mos-Espa, an intercultural tipi in the Plaza de Naciones, as a parallel activity to the regular sessions of the EMRIP. In that year, every day, from July 9 to 13, we held the circle of words KUBUN ISTYSUKA, where Genevans were able to meet representatives of the planet's indigenous peoples, in the framework of dialogues and crystal glass concerts and other ceremonial music. Among the indigenous representatives who have participated in this space during the following years, we have marakames from the Wixarika (Huichol) people of Mexico, who have also brought us their music, with a representation of the MAIS (Indigenous and Social Alliance Movement of Colombia), to draw attention to the murders of indigenous leaders, peasants, and environmentalists in Colombia since the signing of the peace accords in 2016. At the time, 1,065 people had been murdered (December 2020)_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_ To celebrate the summer solstice and the beginning of the half-year session of the Human Rights Council in 2021, we organized a drum circle, with the installation of a tipi and a haima (traditional house of the Saharawi people, in Western Sahara) in the Plaza de Nations. The drum is a ritual instrument used worldwide by many indigenous peoples to connect with the earth. In Europe, for example, the Sami people use it in Norway, Sweden and Finland. In Switzerland there is a centuries-old tradition linked to drum sounds in Basel. In environmental policy, we have done drum circles to show our support for the conference of the parties to the united nations convention on climate change. In our latest events, we have highlighted the adoption by the Human Rights Council of resolution 48/13 in October 2021, which recognizes the right to a healthy, clean and sustainable environment as a human right. This human right has been recognized through the adoption without opposition by the UN General Assembly on July 28, 2022 (resolution A/76/300). Maloca Internationale Project – Maloca Internationale https://malocainternationale.com/maloca-internationale-project/ Articles Prior, free and informed consultation Prior, free and informed consultation is a right of indigenous peoples when any administrative measure or infrastructure project may affect their territory. Such right is recognized in Convention 169, in the Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and by internal regulations in the countries that have adopted Convention 169. The implementation of this right has been full of problems, originating in the lack of will to make the consultations. When these take place, the relation of forces is usually against the indigenous peoples. This is because the times, mechanisms and budget involved in the consultations put indigenous peoples at a disadvantage, compared to companies, the State and the temporary management that can be used against them. With the purpose of seeking to balance the relationship of forces, we propose to include the use of sacred plants during the consultations. This idea arose from the results of a previous consultation experience in the department of Putumayo (Colombia). The community of the Bellavista reservation, on the Putumayo River, held a consultation with the Amerisur company, which was planning to carry out oil exploration in the region. The use of sacred plants among the community allowed for a consolidated position of the indigenous people against the company, and opposition to the project was expressed. However, our idea is to use these plants in meetings with companies and the State, and not just before them. At the UN, we have accompanied a delegation from the Wirarika people busy protecting the Wirikuta reserve in Mexico, where peyote is endemic. We presented this case to the Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in 2019, which issued the following recommendation: “The Committee recommends that the State party: a) Design and adopt a legal procedure based on a methodology that guarantees the right of indigenous peoples to be consulted regarding any legislative or administrative measure likely to affect their rights, with a view to obtaining their free, prior and informed consent, in harmony with international standards, in consultation with indigenous peoples and taking into account their traditions and cultural characteristics”-CERD/C/MEX/CO/18-21. Pair. 21(a) In 2017, in collaboration with the Unión de Médicos Yajeceros de la Amazonia Colombia UMIYAC and ICEERS, a recommendation to the same effect was obtained from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: “Guarantee that consultations in order to obtain the free, prior and informed consent regarding decision-making likely to affect the exercise of the economic, social and cultural rights of indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples are carried out in an unavoidable and timely manner, taking into account the cultural differences of each people(...)” E/C.12/COL/CO/6. Pair. 18). October 19, 2017. UMIYAC also presented a report to the rapporteur for the rights of indigenous peoples, in which mention was made of the prior consultation process with Amerisur. The language achieved in both recommendations on the "traditions... characteristics" or "cultural differences" to be taken into account during the consultations, create a space of interpretation for the use of sacred plants in said consultations. This space opens up possibilities to develop a project that goes in this direction in the future, for example, within the framework of the projects contemplated by the IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of the South American Regional Infrastructure). Consulta libre inormada Indigenous Rights medicina tradicional

Areas of Action We are a multifaceted organization that finds its cohesion and coherence in the promotion and exercise of the right to self-determination. Self-determination is exercised over a territory, which therefore must be clean, healthy and sustainable; Likewise, self-determination can imply the use and protection of endogenous knowledge to support the model of economic development chosen by a particular people. The protection of intellectual property, of the environment with its water resources, requires the use of international instances based on respect for the rule of law, represented mainly by the International Bill of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter. It is in these international instances where we carry out our work, as well as in our civil society nature reserve project in the Colombian Amazon. Right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment cascada-Ornoyaco Alfonso Pazos Taita Alfonso Pazos ONU 3 cascada-Ornoyaco 1/3 This is a Paragraph. Click on "Edit Text" or double click on the text box to edit the content and make sure to add any relevant information that you want to share with your visitors. Right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment Taita Alfonso Pazos ONU 3 ornoyacoiris Entrada-Ornoyaco Taita Alfonso Pazos ONU 3 1/3 Thanks to the accreditation offered by the Lutheran World Federation, Maloca Internationale was able to be present at the negotiations of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) that was part of the Macro Convention of United Nations Conference on Climate Change, in February 2015. The objective of the ADP was to achieve a protocol or agreement within the Macro Convention on climate change. The Geneva negotiations, of which we were part, gave rise to a text later discussed in Bonn and in Paris during COP21, which allowed the Paris agreement to be reached. We advocate, together with numerous civil society actors (240 NGOs), for the inclusion of language to recognize and promote human rights in actions against climate change. This language was eventually incorporated into the preamble of the Paris agreement: "Parties shall, in all climate change-related actions, respect, protect, promote, and fulfill human rights for all" This Environmental work complements our work with indigenous medicines, based on the hypothesis that traditional medicines allow the development of greater respect and sensitivity towards non-human life in ecosystems. Right to self-determination 1/16 This is a Paragraph. Click on "Edit Text" or double click on the text box to edit the content and make sure to add any relevant information that you want to share with your visitors. People are genuinely interested in learning more about you, so don't be afraid to share personal anecdotes to create a more friendly quality. Right to self-determination 1/7 Taken in its collective dimension, the right to self-determination necessarily depends on the existence of a territory occupied by a people. In addition to working on the preservation of the territory, in its ecological sense, as a system that allows collective human life, we also work on political self-determination, for cases that are clearly defined in international law. The clearest case is perhaps that of Western Sahara. The UN included Western Sahara, by virtue of Chapter 11 of the United Nations Charter, in the list of non-autonomous territories, with resolution 20/72 of 1965 of the General Assembly. On Spain fell the responsibility, unfulfilled until today, to take the necessary measures to achieve the independence of Western Sahara from colonial domination. A fundamental cause of this violation of international law is the disengagement of Spain as the administering power of Western Sahara, and the subsequent invasion of Morocco. International law has recognized the Kingdom of Morocco as the occupying power of the non-autonomous territory of Western Sahara, with resolution 35/19 of the General Assembly, which deplored "the persistent occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco", at the same time as reaffirms "the inalienable right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination and independence in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the Charter of the Organization of African Unity and with the objectives of resolution 1514( XV) of the General Assembly, as well as the legitimacy of the struggle being waged to achieve the exercise of this right in accordance with the provisions of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity”. The previous resolution echoes the opinion of the International Court of Justice of 1975, which finds no basis in the relations of the Moroccan sovereign with some tribes of Western Sahara, to claim any exercise of sovereignty by Morocco over the Non-Self-Governing Territory ( Opinion of October 16, 1975. Western Sahara, Advisory Opinion, 1. CJ Reports 1975). For their part, the Kurdish people have never possessed a State to satisfy the exercise of external self-determination. The fate of this town has been decided by state actors outside of it. With the Zuhab agreement of 1539 between the Ottoman Empire and Iran, a portion of these people remained within the limits of Iran. After the disintegration of the centuries-old Ottoman Empire, the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 segregated two other parts of the Kurdish people in Iraq and Syria, and in 1923, the Lausanne treaty did the same within Turkey's borders. However, the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the consequent destabilization of the country allowed the creation of an autonomous Kurdish government in northern Iraq, thanks to the 2005 Political Constitution. The People of Iraq are defined by their diversity in the The Constitutional Preamble and the fundamental principles give their own name to this diversity: Christians, Yazidis, Mandaeans are recognized together with the majority Islamic identity, the languages of the Armenians, Assyrians, Syriacs, Turkmens and Kurds have official status in the territories where they are spoken. . In both the Kurdish and the Saharawi cases, the future of these territories depends on the use of their tremendous solar energy potential, under conditions that allow the peoples of these territories to enjoy the benefits of these resources independently. Through panels and an annual international conference, we maintain attention and make these two cases known in the debate within the Human Rights Council. Intellectual property MALOCA OMPI 2 MALOCA OMPI MALOCA OMPI 2 1/2 We are permanent observers at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). There, we pay special attention to the sessions of the WIPO Intergovernmental Group on Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Traditional Cultural Expressions. WIPO has been an open arena for indigenous peoples since 2002, when negotiations began in order to establish relevant intellectual property instruments for these peoples. In the past, the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples took 25 years to be adopted. At present, the convention on business and human rights and the WIPO Intergovernmental Group are the two places of international negotiation that are of interest to Indigenous Peoples. In accordance with the positions presented by indigenous members in WIPO, we come to the conclusion that secrecy is the best instrument for the protection of the intellectual property of Indigenous Peoples. We depend on internal political processes to achieve the protection of the intellectual property of Indigenous Peoples within our States. For this reason, it is necessary to support political projects capable of including the protection of the intellectual property of Indigenous Peoples, while at the same time turning them into an axis of national development. Services Ceremonias con Plantas Sagras Gregorio-y-Carmen Chindoy Ceremonias con Plantas Sagradas Brugmacia Arborea Ceremonias con plantas sagradas Maloca Ornoyaco Ceremonias con Plantas Sagras Gregorio-y-Carmen Chindoy 1/3 Ayahuasca, Yajé, Natem, Cipo, Vegetal… Of all the medicines developed in the Amazon, Ayahuasca or Yajé, as it is known in Colombia, has been the most widespread in recent years worldwide. Currently there is a whole field of studies, los Ayahuasca Studies , which is dedicated to investigating, from a multitude of perspectives, the phenomena linked to the type of beverages covered under this generic name. In Putumayo (Colombia) Yajé is a decoction of two plant species, the liana banisteriopsis caapi and the leaves of Diplopterys cabrerana. Ayahuasca can be accompanied by other medicines, including perfumes made from various plants, including Floripondio, Tijiki or Borrachero (Brugmansia arborea). In general, traditional doctors and doctors conceive their work as a mental, emotional and physical harmonization of the person, through a deep spiritual connection with nature and with themselves. The healing process, within this context, consists of carrying out said harmonization, thanks, first, to contact with nature, its sounds, its rhythms, concentration exercises achieved through music and singing, as well as a process of internal body cleansing An external cleaning process is also undertaken with the application of perfumes and incense made from plants, with the breath of tobacco and wairasacha. It is a therapy that is difficult to describe verbally, since it brings bodily and affective aspects into play, which can be better understood in a direct experience with traditional doctors. We respect the diversity of interpretations of the experiences lived with the modified states of consciousness, which are accessed with the medicines used. 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About us After several years of assisting therapeutic work in the Colombian Amazon, our organization now focuses its work in Colombia on monitoring various actors involved in the protection of ancestral territories, through prior consultations and popular consultations. We have made a commitment to include traditional knowledge in these consultations, both in Colombia and globally. ​ Given that indigenous peoples exist within the borders of states, we have expanded our work to other areas of human rights other than indigenous peoples' self-determination, with the idea that working for the human rights of all the population within a State is also working for the rights of indigenous peoples within that State. These areas include the rule of law, civil and political rights in Colombia and the Ibero-American region, as well as other parts of the world such as the MENA (Middle East and North Africa); we also cover environmental and intellectual property rights. ​ Finally, the goal of our work is to build a democratic and equitable social and international order as a model of global governance. ​ About our beginnings Maloca Internacionale began as an initiative to formalize and internationalize the work done in the Maloca de Ornoyaco (Putumayo, Colombia), as well as to continue the discussions held in the Maloca Intercultural de Bogotá. La Maloca is the generic name for the Amazonian peoples' ceremonial house, which we have adopted as our organization's symbol and axis. ​ ​ Traditional doctors in the Maloca Ornoyaco see their work as a mental, emotional, and physical harmonization of the person, achieved through a deep spiritual connection with nature and with oneself. Within this context, the healing process consists of achieving said harmonization through contact with nature, its sounds, and rhythms, concentration exercises achieved through music and singing, and an internal body cleansing process carried out with plants such as chives and chichaja. External cleaning is also done with the use of perfumes and incense made from plants, as well as the breath of tobacco and wairasacha. It is a therapy that is hard to verbally describe because it involves bodily and affective aspects that can only be understood through direct experience with traditional doctors. Our team STAFF Leonardo Rodriguez Perez Representative to the UN. ​ Leonardo is commissioned for Latin America before the Human Rights Council and UN treaty bodies. Trained as a historian, Leonardo has specialized in international relations, intellectual property and traditional knowledge, drug policy, the law of indigenous peoples and minorities. ​ linkedin.com/in/drleonardoperez Richard Maok Riaño Botiña Richard is well-known in Colombia because his research taught the country and the world about the relationship between the traditional political class and paramilitarism. He is currently employed as a transnational organized crime investigator. Thanks to its alternative information channels, Colombia has also been able to learn about the work that is taking place in the UN to achieve the rule of law both, in Colombia and in international relations. ​ https://twitter.com/hackerfiscalia Manuel Rangel Representative in France. ​ Maloca Internationale, as a cultural organization, wishes to gain observer status with UNESCO in France. Manuel Rangel is in charge of this Mission and has extensive experience in various fields of non-profit organizations. Manuel also helps with the logistics of our UN Geneva conferences. ​ https://twitter.com/hackerfiscalia Jesie Mbiatem Minority Representative. Jesie, who is originally from English-speaking Cameroon, is sensitive to the plight of minorities, which she has represented at the United Nations Minorities Forum. Jesie Mbiatem has studied the relationship between multinational corporations in Cameroon, and her role in our organization includes document writing as well as the creation and dissemination of other informational materials. linkedin.com/in/jesie-mbiatem-85a598202 Charles Walters Contact with indigenous peoples on the ground. ​ Carlos, the traditional authority of the Pijao people in central Colombia, became acquainted with Maloca Internationale the year it was founded in Geneva in 2014, as a result of his work as an indigenous peoples' representative in the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples before the United Nations. Carlos keeps the Organization's headquarters in New York and Geneva informed of the realities on the ground. Carla Claros Rollano counselor ​ ​ Musician specialist in ancient music, historical flutes and traditional flutes. Her work focuses on the search for identity in her artistic proposals, whether in music, interpretation, writing or musical creation. Carla is a research assistant in "Hombres de Maiz", a project supported by IRMAS (Institute for Research in Music and Performing Arts) HEMG (Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève) and HES-SO. In this context, she is given the task of highlighting the repertoire of Jesuit missions and cathedrals in Bolivia dating from the 17th to the 19th century. Carla is an artist who recognizes herself to be of Quechua origin. COMMITTEE Leonardo Rodriguez Perez Committee President ​ Leonardo is commissioned for Latin America before the Human Rights Council and UN treaty bodies. Trained as a historian, Leonardo has specialized in International Relations, Intellectual Property and traditional knowledge, drug policy, the law of indigenous peoples and minorities. ​ linkedin.com/in/drleonardoperez Camen Garreta Chindoy and Gregory Castro Committee member. ​ They are two traditional doctors of ayahuasca, tobacco and other sacred plants from the Amazon and the Colombian Andes, recognized in Colombia and abroad by users of these plants. They are responsible for the Maloca de Ornoyaco in Mocoa, and for the medicinal plants that grow in our Civil Society Nature Reserve project. Founding members of the organization, they accompanied the dynamics that took place in the Maloca de Ornoyaco, in Mocoa (Putumayo - Colombia), and that gave rise to the creation of Maloca Internationale in Switzerland in 2014. Ilan Lew Committee Member ​ A sociologist by training, Ilan Lew is interested in the situation of Israel-Palestine and is the leader of the Martin Buber Circle in Geneva which was created in honor of the Austrian philosopher. He is interested in a dialogued solution to the situation of the former British mandate of Palestine. After completing postgraduate studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Ilan is currently studying German language and literature. Ivan Mura Committee Member. ​ A ssociate professor of computer and electrical engineering at Duke Kunshan University in China, he was a professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He is also an expert in theory and application of predictive and prescriptive models of living and artificial systems. He is interested in the study of biological and health management systems and dependent systems. Founding member of Maloca Internationale, he was present at the dynamics that took place in the Maloca de Ornoyaco, in Mocoa (Colombia), and which led to the creation of Maloca Internationale in Switzerland in 2014. ​ linkedin.com/in/ivan-mura Frederic Post Member of the Committee Frédéric Post is a Genevan artist, co-founder of Motel Campo and Mos-Espa, a multifaceted and traditional place and festival in the alternative scene of the Canton of Geneva. One of his highly recognized works is Cura-Pinta, which anyone who comes to Geneva can see next to the city's train station, based on graphic motifs used in the department of Putumayo, Colombia. Sonia Patricia Murcia Roa Secretary ​ Sonia is a mathematician and statistician by training, with extensive experience in the educational field. Of Pijao descent (an indigenous people from central Colombia), Sonia is responsible for a specialist in traditional medicines, particularly tobacco. A founding member of the organization, Sonia was present at the dynamics that took place in the Maloca de Ornoyaco, in Mocoa (Putumayo – Colombia), and which led to the creation of Maloca Internationale in Switzerland in 2014. ​ linkedin.com/in/sonia-patricia-murcia-roa-35341549 Francesca Alive Committee member. Political scientist with a PhD in sociology of modernity. She has worked in countries and territories in conflict or post-conflict, such as Western Sahara, Kosovo and Colombia. Founding member, she was present in the dynamics that took place in the Maloca de Ornoyaco, in Mocoa (Colombia), and that gave rise to the creation of Maloca Internationale in Switzerland in 2014. She has contributed with analysis and research on human rights and cultural heritage for the sessions of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Human Rights Council and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. linkedin.com/in/francesca-viva-27444328 Emmanuel Deonna Treasurer ​ Independent journalist and critic, Swiss and Israeli national, born in Lausanne. His main areas of interest and research are contemporary Jewish history, migration and citizenship studies, social work, and film, with a focus on social and documentary film. His commitment to peace, in support of migrant defense, human rights, cultural rights, social cohesion, and cultural dialogue in Geneva, is reflected in his work within the associative sector and the Socialist Party. Hector Raul Gonzales Founding member of the organization Héctor Raúl was present in the dynamics that took place in the Maloca de Ornoyaco, in Mocoa (Putumayo – Colombia), and that led to the creation of Maloca Internationale in Switzerland in 2014. Specialist in the construction of adequate settings so that users of ayahuasca and other medicines can access such medicines in the best conditions within Colombia. The musical production of Héctor Raúl has been broadcast in various concerts and in his album “Entre Plumas y Bejucos”. INTERNS Sarah Boateng Intern 2018 ​ Sarah decided to start her own NGO, IGEA Enterprise, after assisting us in organizing our annual conference on indigenous peoples at the United Nations. IGEA Enterprise focuses on ensuring the supply of hygiene resource kits for girls between the ages of 11 and 16 in rural Ghana. ​ linkedin.com/in/sarah-boateng-676265105 aras karabulak Intern 2019-2020. A student at Paris Dauphine University in conflict transformation and peace studies, Aras accompanied us in Geneva with bureaucratic tasks related to obtaining our legal recognition as an international NGO by the canton of Geneva. ​ linkedin.com/in/aras-karabulak Cyrus Renni Ciro Reni, legal consultant, 2014 - 2015 ​ Doctor in Economics, Ciro Reni writes reports on specific issues in different countries of the world. In particular, he has studied the Venezuelan economy's dependence on oil and the social consequences of mining activities in the Sahel. Gabriela Pimentel Intern 2018-2019. ​ Gabriela assisted us in the meetings of the Intergovernmental Group on Intellectual Property of indigenous peoples in order to collect part of her fieldwork data at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and thus complement her fieldwork with indigenous peoples in Brazil. Her research work enabled her to earn a Masters degree from Geneva's IHEID Institute of International and Development Studies. Gabriela currently works at the International Labor Organization. ​ linkedin.com/in/gabriela-balvedi-pimentel-41b260b5 Laura Elizabeth Rodriguez Intern 2014-2015. Laura Isabel was our assistant in the children's rights and civil and political rights committees, as well as the World Intellectual Property Organization's intellectual property and development committees. Her internship with us was completed in accordance with the requirements for her master's degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. ​ linkedin.com/in/lauraisabelrodriguez Sara Bitel Sarah Bitel, Intern 2015 ​ A student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Sarah Bitel is a visual anthropologist and researcher on the phenomenon of migration in Europe. Sarah is particularly interested in the way in which migrants represent themselves, and about the changing conceptions of Europe, before and after the migratory act. Our Allies