25515 - The Aboriginal contribution
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias
When you are fighting for the Human Rights, it’s often that we are not aware of who started producing this task, which the ones who followed assume it to be absolutely normal, as it now constitutes a common acquis.
Regarding the Human rights therefore, we have the French revolution for the implementation of an Enlightenment vision, which was influenced by Humanism, which derives through the Renaissance from Hellenism.
We are aware of how great the contribution of the Europeans was towards the Women’s Rights.
Now, as far as the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples are concerned, which was formally introduced as a case at the United Nations in 2007, we are rarely aware that the greatest contribution derives from the Aboriginal people and through the example of Australia’s handling of their issue.
Therefore, when we are fighting for the small and large Occupied territories, for Artsakh, for Western Armenia, we utilize on this added value of the concept of the Indigenous Peoples, on account of the battles that the Aborigines gave in order to defend their own Rights.
And this didn’t occur in order for them to protect the concept of property ownership, but as to liberate an occupied land from slavery in the absence of respect.
In this context we must understand that, as in Australia they greet the ancestors of the land, likewise we should, while we are expressing our solidarity towards a nation trying to get rid of the yoke of an occupier, to always make a reference to the contribution of the Aboriginies towards the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples.