The land embraces us and encompasses our identity and belonging to each and all in the natural and created order. Land is the continuity between our collective memory of our ancestors and our deep longing for survival now and in the future. We will not be alienated from and be strangers to our ancestral homelands. Our common and painful experience of colonialism has made us aware of the importance of our indigenous resources and ancestral domains. We are affirming human rights, sustainable development, justice and peace, as common aspirations and destiny of all of us.
Indigenous peoples see the whole cosmos as one integrated whole.
Everything in the created and natural order is essential and critical to the existence and survival of the other. Indigenous peoples are proud to share this holistic cosmology with a world, which seems to be fragmenting lives and atomising societies. We believe in the fundamental dignity of every living being. Our affirmation of human rights demands from us the respect for people of other religious traditions and convictions. Religious rights are protected only when the variety of expressions and non-expressions are all protected.