A petition calling for revision of the 2006 Amerindian Act was launched on Thursday, with activists proposing several changes to the legislation, including “recognition of rights to ancestral land, territories and resources.”
Activists have long called for revision of the Act and conflicts with miners over mining rights in recent times have seen a renewed push for the legislation to be amended. However, government has previously indicated that it is not inclined to do so and has described the legislation as one of the most progressive in the world.
Amerindian rights activist Laura George at the Umana Yana on Thursday officially launched the petition for the revision of the Act. Reading from an open letter to the president, she said that the “Amerindian Act of 2006 does not
