Indigenous Peoples Cannot be Left Behind in the Post-2015 Development Agenda - Roberto Borrero, International Indian Treaty Council
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and post-2015 development agenda aspire to “leave no one behind.” Yet, at this critical juncture in the elaboration of the SDGs, the process is in jeopardy of excluding Indigenous Peoples from the agenda. Ironically, while traditional Indigenous Territories “encompass up to 22 percent of the world’s land surface” and “coincide with areas that hold 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity,”[i] the post-2015 development agenda is poised to repeat the broken promises of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the world’s Indigenous Peoples.[ii]