Source: http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/conferences/hrc2006/four/hrc070315am-eng.rm?start=00:53:23&end=00:56:36

Human Rights Council, Fourth Session
March 15, 2007
Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights- Interactive Dialogue

Tupaj Amaru, World Peace Council

Mr. President, Madam High Commissioner, let me inform you first of all, that I was thrown out of this forum by the officer responsible for liaison with NGOs.  I would ask you to put an end to selective discriminatory actions against indigenous peoples.  Having said that, following a rapid reading of the annual report of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, we welcome the support provided by the office of- provided to the Council in establishing the mechanisms and review of mandates and special procedures and we encourage efforts undertaken by the office in the sphere of human rights- the universal periodic review and the review of mandates once again being faced with politicization, double standards and delaying maneuvers by the Western powers with the view to using human rights to protect their political and economic interests.  

Real progress in establishing an institutional body for the Council now depends on the determination of states and their sphere of economic and social rights in the view of indigenous peoples the causes which give rise to grave and systematic human rights violations including state terrorism in the world lie in the neo-liberal development model- poverty and external debt which constitute one of the greatest obstacles to the protection of human rights.  The phenomenon of external debt is a scourge of universal dimensions which has become a subtle doubt-edged mechanism in the strategy of neo-colonial domination which the rich countries continue to exert against poor countries.

From the historical point of view, the Western powers have a responsibility to repair social debt and ecological debt.  The scourge of poverty which affects us all is the result of the unequal and anarchic development and the erratic distribution of wealth.  Poverty should not be considered as a historical necessity.  

The United Nations financial institutions have failed- the World Bank which acts in partnership with the Office of the High Commissioner is simply counting the numbers of poor people in the world and combating poverty the World Bank is involved in the sterilization of indigenous women in Bolivia and Peru.  As well, the structural adjustment program of the International Monetary Fund has failed.  Finally, Mr. President, thank you.