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President: Chef Jean Auberic |
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Adress: Rue Capt Charles Claude, 97319 Awala-Yalimampo. Guyane Francaise |
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Phone: (594) 335006 |
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Fax: (594)329951 |
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E-mail: chefcoutumier@nplus.gf |
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Objectives
Our fight looks for to conclude a pact founder between the Indigenous people of the Guyana and the State and to redefine a new relationship with the population's other sectors. Single east political and juridical process will allow to guarantee a durable stability in the Guyana and it will drive to a consequent improvement of the French position with relationship to the problem that affects to the Indigenous People.
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General information on the French Guyana
It is the earth in which four worlds converge: that of the European Economic Community, The Caribbean, America of the South and that of the Indigenous people. Their surface is of approximately 90 thousand square kilometers, what is equal to the sixth part of the national surface. It is the one bigger than the departments that make part of the French Republic. The populational density belongs to 2 inhabitants for square kilometer.
In 1999, it registered a total of 157274 inhabitants. In the last 9 years, the population was increased in a number of 42600, what is equal to 37 percent. The percentage bigger than the population has less than 25 years and more than 35 percent it has less than 15 years. The dense forest covers 92 percent of the territory (7,5 million hectares). The biodiversity is very rich: more than 400 thousand vegetable species and animals. The GDP is high with relationship to the neighboring countries.
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The Indigenous Towns of the Guyana
We are six: Kali´na, Pahikweneh, Lokono (seated in the Costa); Wayana, Wayapi and Teko, in the interior. The number of its members is difficult to obtain for official conduits, because the French State doesn't authorize censuses considering ethnic approaches. For FOAG, we are an indigenous total of 15 thousand. |
Ancestral areas of Indigenous people
- The Basin of the one Fakes, of the Maroni, Iracoubo and Kaulu, populated by the Kali´na.
- The Maroni and the island Cayena, populated by the Lokono.
- The Oyapock, Macouria, Roura and Regina, populated by the Pahikweneh.
- The High Oyapock, populated by the Teko and the Wayapi.
- The High Maroni, populated by the Wayana.
Municipalities that harbor Indigenous people
Of the 22 municipalities of the Guyana, 13 harbor to indigenous people: Awala-Yalimapo, Flows, St Laurent, Iracoubo, Macouria, Regina, Roura, St Georges, Camopi, Maripasoula, Matoury, Montsinery-Tonnegrande, Cayena. The Capital welcomes an own diáspora. The municipalities of Awala-Yalimpo and Camopi are inhabited exclusively for Indigenous people, of those that make part 30 communities represented by their respective traditional authorities.
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| Evolution of the indigenous movement in Guyana
In 1981 the Association of the Amerindian from the French Guyana is believed to reject the "politics of assimilation and of forced creolización" and it intended "to defend and to promote the indigenous cultures as well as the atmosphere and the traditional socioeconomic activities of the indigenous people."
At the present time, the indigenous people of the Guyana, through the Federation of the Organizations of Amerindian from Guyana (FOAG), they demand the restitution of their rights of Indigenous people, as the international right and to the prospective norms of the human rights.
Achievements and actions
FOAG is active national and internationally, at level of the French right and of the international right. The following ones are some of our achievements:
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Participation in the States Generals toward a durable development of the Guyana. |
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Adoption for the two Territorial Assemblies of the titled annex "Make a pact of Development" that promotes the restitution of our rights according to the International Right. |
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Setting-up of a commission of experts, result of the application made to the Secretary of State of the Territories of Overseas. |
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Inclusion of a disposition on the Indigenous people, in the Law of Orientation of the Territories of Overseas, inspired by the Convention about the Biological Diversity. |
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Operation of a commission auxiliary paritaria between the Regional Council of the Guyana and the authorities traditional natives for the indigenous participation in the Contract Plan - Region - Europe 2000-2006. |
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Work juridical complementary to the political actions. |
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Work judicial in front of the contamination with mercury that affects the Wayanas in constant violation to their rights on their collective lands. |
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