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Sovereign Souls Declaration On The Rights of Autochthonous People.

PREAMBLE  
THE Ministers, Private Officials, and Members of Sovereign Souls Church had a 'Meeting of the Minds" dated 09.15.2021

RECOGNIZING That the rights of indigenous peoples are both essential and of historic significance to the  present and future of the Americas;  The important presence in the Americas of indigenous peoples and their immense  contribution to development, plurality, and cultural diversity and reiterating our commitment to their  economic and social well-being, as well as the obligation to respect their rights and cultural identity;  and  That the existence of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Americas is important to  humanity; and  

REAFFIRMING that indigenous peoples are original, diverse societies with their own  identities that form an integral part of the Americas;  

CONCERNED that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of,  inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing  them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs  and interests;  

RECOGNIZING the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous  peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures,  spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and  resources;  

RECOGNIZING FURTHER that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional  practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the  environment;  

BEARING IN MIND the progress achieved at the international level in recognizing the rights  of indigenous peoples, especially the 169 ILO Convention and the United Nations Declaration on the  Rights of Indigenous Peoples;  

BEARING IN MIND ALSO the progress made in nations of the Americas, at the  constitutional, legislative, and jurisprudential levels to safeguard, promote, and protect the rights of  indigenous peoples, as well as the political will of states to continue their progress toward recognition  of the rights of indigenous peoples in the Americas;

RECALLING the commitments undertaken by the Member States to guarantee, promote, and  protect the rights and institutions of indigenous peoples, including those undertaken at the Third and  Fourth Summits of the Americas;  

RECALLING AS WELL the universality, inseparability, and interdependence of human  rights recognized under international law;  

CONVINCED that recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will  foster among states and indigenous peoples harmonious and cooperative relations based on the  principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, nondiscrimination, and good faith;  

CONSIDERING the importance of eliminating all forms of discrimination that may affect  indigenous peoples, and taking into account the responsibility of states to combat them;  

ENCOURAGING States to respect and comply with and effectively implement all their  obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those  related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned;  

DECLARE: 

SECTION ONE: Indigenous Peoples. Scope of Application

Article I. 

1. Sovereign Souls Declaration On The Right of Autochthonous People applies to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

2. Self-identification as indigenous peoples will be a fundamental criteria for determining to whom this Declaration applies. The states shall respect the right to such self identification as indigenous, individually or collectively, in keeping with the practices and institutions  of each indigenous people.

Article II.

The states recognize and respect the multicultural and multilingual character of the  indigenous peoples, who are an integral part of their societies.  

Article III.

Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely  determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.  

Article IV. 

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, people, group or  person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act contrary to the Charter of the Organization of American States and the Charter of the United Nations or construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity or  political unity of sovereign and independent States.

SECTION TWO: Human Rights and Collective Rights 

Article V. 

Full effect and observance of human rights Indigenous peoples and persons have the right to the full enjoyment of all human rights and  fundamental freedoms, as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the  Organization of American States and international human rights law.  

Article VI. 

Collective rights Indigenous peoples have collective rights that are indispensable for their existence, well being, and integral development as peoples. In this regard, the states recognize and respect, the right  of the indigenous peoples to their collective action; to their juridical, social, political, and economic  systems or institutions; to their own cultures; to profess and practice their spiritual beliefs; to use their  own tongues and languages; and to their lands, territories and resources. States shall promote with the  full and effective participation of the indigenous peoples the harmonious coexistence of rights and  systems of the different population, groups, and cultures.  

Sovereign Souls Autochthonous Bill of Rights

First Amendment:

Every member is their own spiritual master Ordained by our cosmic God/Universe, or any name you choose to call the pulse of conscious magnetism connecting all, and as such, shall govern themselves in the highest of accountability and integrity,  Under God,

Second Amendment:

There is no person or authority that can stand between you & your connection to The Divine. You are the master of your body, as it is your property: your sacred Temple of God, we honor each person in fellowship as the sole/soul owner of the physical matter that make up your body,

Third Amendment:

The physical body/vehicle is God's divine artwork, our devotion is shown by the purity of our mind, body and soul, starting with the body,  it shall never be maimed or genetically modified, patented, combined with unclean blood of beasts or aborted fetal cells, etc.,

Forth Amendment:  

The physical body/vehicle is God's divine artwork, our devotion is shown by the purity of our mind, body and soul, starting with the body,  it shall never be maimed or genetically modified, patented, combined with unclean blood of beasts or aborted fetal cells, etc.,

Fifth Amendment:

Every being has the right to pure water, unobstructed fresh air, clean natural, organic/non gmo foods, to nourish their property, (their living body),

Sixth Amendment:

The Breath is the Sacred Instrument that connects us to God. Air is the bridge to God, and we must at all times have access to unobstructed air flow,

Seventh Amendment:

Each man or woman has the right to decide what goes in their vessel, on it and around it; Your vehicle/body is your property, and we uphold the rights to your property in the utmost sacredness. Your body is your Temple, where God Dwells, each of us must govern it according to our personal covenants with God,

Eighth Amendment:

No other being, or persons calling themselves a 'government' can supersede Gods Law that each person holds for themselves, as men and women living on the land. God dwells in you and you are of God, only you can set your own Divine Law and shall govern yourself in the highest integrity, in accordance with the Laws set forth between you and The Divine,

Ninth Amendment:  

No group of people calling themselves a government can mandate anything concerning your property, as each of our members are men and women living on the land, serving God, and as such, in the Jurisdiction of GOD, who's court lies outside AND ABOVE the jurisdiction of corporate 'governmental' structures,

Tenth Amendment:  

We come in Peace and Honor, and, By our highest sacred doctrine, dictated by GOD, our body is our property, and as such, we hereby notify all men and women who at times acts as a "government", that our bodies, our children, etc are our property, and at no point shall our rights to travel, feed, or pursue our livelihoods to care for our property be restrained by 'mandates' acting against the Jurisdiction of Gods Law,

Eleventh Amendment:

It is our Sacred Duty to self govern, each person governing themselves, exclusively under God's Law, with the utmost of integrity, as our only responsibilities are with The Divine, and as such, will lead the way, as we perfect ourselves by inner sanctification.

Article VII. Gender equality

1. Indigenous women have the right to the recognition, protection, and enjoyment of all  human rights and fundamental freedoms provided for in international law, free of all forms of  discrimination.  

2. States recognize that violence against indigenous peoples and persons, particularly  women, hinders or nullifies the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.  

3. States shall adopt the necessary measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to  prevent and eradicate all forms of violence and discrimination, particularly against indigenous women  and children.  

Article VIII. Right to belong to the indigenous peoples.

Indigenous persons and communities have the right to belong to one or more indigenous  peoples, in accordance with the identity, traditions, customs, and systems of belonging of each  people. No discrimination of any kind may arise from the exercise of such a right.  

Article IX. Juridical personality.

The states shall recognize fully the juridical personality of the indigenous peoples, respecting  indigenous forms of organization and promoting the full exercise of the rights recognized in this Declaration.  

Article X. Rejection of assimilation  

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, express, and freely develop their  cultural identity in all respects, free from any external attempt at assimilation.  

2. The States shall not carry out, adopt, support, or favor any policy to assimilate the  indigenous peoples or to destroy their cultures.

Article XI. Protection against genocide

Indigenous peoples have the right to not be subjected to any form of genocide or attempts to  exterminate them.

Article XII. Guarantees against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and other related forms of intolerance 

Indigenous peoples have the right not to be subject to racism, racial discrimination,  xenophobia, and other related forms of intolerance. The states shall adopt the preventive and  corrective measures necessary for the full and effective protection of this right.

SECTION THREE: Cultural identity 

Article XIII. Right to cultural identity and integrity

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to their own cultural identity and integrity and to  their cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, including historic and ancestral heritage; and to  the protection, preservation, maintenance, and development of that cultural heritage for their  collective continuity and that of their members and so as to transmit that heritage to future  generations.  

2. States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include  restitution, developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples, with respect to their cultural,  intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in  violation of their laws, traditions and customs.  

3. Indigenous people have the right to the recognition and respect for all their ways of  life, world views, spirituality, uses and customs, norms and traditions, forms of social, economic and  political organization, forms of transmission of knowledge, institutions, practices, beliefs, values,  dress and languages, recognizing their inter-relationship as elaborated in this Declaration.

Article XIV. Systems of Knowledge, Language and Communication

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to preserve, use, develop, revitalize, and transmit  to future generations their own histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, systems of  knowledge, writing, and literature; and to designate and maintain their own names for their  communities, individuals, and places.  

2. The states shall adopt adequate and effective measures to protect the exercise of this  right with the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples.

3. Indigenous peoples have the right to promote and develop all their systems and media  

of communication, including their own radio and television programs, and to have equal access to all  other means of communication and information. The states shall take measures to promote the  broadcast of radio and television programs in indigenous languages, particularly in areas with an  indigenous presence. The states shall support and facilitate the creation of indigenous radio and  television stations, as well as other means of information and communication.  

4. The states, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, shall make efforts to ensure that  those peoples can understand and be understood in their languages in administrative, political, and  judicial proceedings, where necessary through the provision of interpretation or by other effective  means.

Article XV. Education

1. Indigenous peoples and individuals, particularly indigenous children, have the right  to all levels and forms of education, without discrimination.  

2. States and indigenous peoples, in keeping with the principle of equality of  opportunity, shall promote the reduction of disparities in education between indigenous and non indigenous peoples.  

3. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems  and institutions, providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cultural  methods of teaching and learning.  

4. In conjunction with indigenous peoples, the states shall take effective measures to  ensure that indigenous persons living outside their communities, particularly children, may have  access to education in their own languages and cultures.  

5. States shall promote harmonious intercultural relations, ensuring that the curricula of  state educational systems reflect the pluricultural and multilingual nature of their societies and  encourage respect for and knowledge of the different indigenous cultures. States shall, in conjunction  with indigenous peoples, promote intercultural education that reflects the worldview, histories,  languages, knowledge, values, cultures, practices, and ways of life of those peoples.  6. States, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, shall adopt necessary and effective  measures to ensure the exercise and observance of these rights.

Article XVI. Indigenous spirituality

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to freely exercise their own spirituality and beliefs  and, by virtue of that right, to practice, develop, transmit, and teach their traditions, customs, and  ceremonies, and to carry them out in public and in private, individually and collectively.  

2. No indigenous people or person shall be subject to pressures or impositions, or any  other type of coercive measures that impair or limit their right to freely exercise their 

indigenous  spirituality and beliefs.  

3. Indigenous Peoples have the right to preserve, protect, and access their sacred sites,  including their burial grounds; to use and control their sacred objects relics, and to recover their  human remains.  

4. States, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, shall adopt effective measures, to  promote respect for indigenous spirituality and beliefs, and to protect the integrity of the symbols,  practices, ceremonies, expressions, and spiritual protocols of indigenous peoples, in accordance with international law.  

Article XVII. Indigenous family

1. The family is a natural and fundamental group unit of society. Indigenous peoples  have the right to preserve, maintain, and promote their own family systems. States shall recognize,  respect, and protect the various indigenous forms of family, in particular the extended family, as well  as the forms of matrimonial union, filiations, descent, and family name. In all cases, gender and  generational equity shall be recognized and respected.  2. In matters relating to custody, adoption, severance of family ties, and related matters,  the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. In determining the best interests of the  child, courts and other relevant institutions shall take into account the right of every indigenous child,  in community with member of his or her people, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and  practice his or her own religion or to use his or her own language and in that regard shall look to the  indigenous law of the peoples concerned and shall consider their points of view, rights and interest,  including the positions of individuals, the family, and the community.  Article XVIII. Health 1. Indigenous peoples have the collective and individual right to the enjoyment of the  highest attainable standard of physical, mental, and spiritual health.  

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to their own health systems and practices, as well  as to the use and protection of the plants, animals, minerals of vital interests, and other natural  resources for medicinal use in their ancestral lands and territories.  

3. States shall take measures to prevent and prohibit indigenous peoples and individuals  from being subject to research programs, biological or medical experimentation, as well as  sterilization without their prior, free, and informed consent. Likewise, indigenous peoples and persons  have the right, as appropriate, to access to their data, medical records, and documentation of research  conducted by individuals and public and private institutions.  

4. Indigenous peoples have the right to use, without any discrimination whatsoever, all  the health and medical care institutions and services accessible to the general population. States, in  consultation and coordination with indigenous peoples, shall promote intercultural systems or  practices in the medical and health services provided in indigenous communities, including training  of indigenous technical and professional health care personnel.  

5. States shall guarantee the effective exercise of the rights contained in this article.

Article XIX. Right to protection of a healthy environment

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to live in harmony with nature and to a healthy,  safe, and sustainable environment, essential conditions for the full enjoyment of the right to life, to  their spirituality, worldview and to collective well-being.  

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to conserve, restore, and protect the environment  and to manage their lands, territories and resources in a sustainable way.

3. Indigenous peoples are entitled to be protected against the introduction of,  abandonment, dispersion, transit, indiscriminate use or deposit of any harmful substance that could negatively affect indigenous communities, lands, territories and resources.  

4. Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the  environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources. States shall  establish and implement assistance programs for indigenous peoples for such conservation and  protection, without discrimination.

SECTION FOUR: Organizational and Political Rights

Article XX. Rights of association, assembly, and freedom of expression and thought

1. Indigenous peoples have the rights of association, assembly, organization and  expression, and to exercise them without interference and in accordance with their worldview, inter  alia, values, usages, customs, ancestral traditions, beliefs, spirituality, and other cultural practices.  

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to assemble on their sacred and ceremonial sites  and areas. For this purpose they shall have free access and use to these sites and areas.  

3. Indigenous peoples, in particular those who are divided by international borders,  shall have the right to travel and to maintain and develop contacts, relations, and direct cooperation,  including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic, and social purposes, with their  members and other peoples.  

4. These states shall adopt, in consultation and cooperation with the indigenous peoples,  effective measures to ensure the exercise and application of these rights.  

Article XXI. Right to autonomy or self-government

1. Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their own decision-making  institutions. They also have the right to participate in the decision making in matters which would  affect their rights. They may do so directly or through their representatives, and accordance with their own norms, procedures, and traditions. They also have the right to equal opportunities to access and  to participate fully and effectively as peoples in all national institutions and fora, including  deliberative bodies.  

3. This church shall remain free and self-governing. The Government is vested in its membership and administered by its officers. In function, final authority shall reside in the membership. They shall approve and/or affirm Sovereign Souls qualified leadership, to carry out the purposes. Our leadership will hold leadership meetings to talk, brainstorm and agree on any discipline or change that maybe required.  We as the Temple members of Sovereign Souls  are pure, complete, with direct connection and relationship with Our Creator. We consult no medium to connect us, speak for us, in relation to Our Creator. We the temple members of Sovereign Souls commune organically and peacefully with Our Creator in the Private space of our dwelling’s domiciles, and Estates. Through this, we are fully self-sufficient and self-governing. With the power and knowledge to administer over our own affairs spiritually, economically, intellectually, emotionally and physically. 
Self-governing means being responsible for our estates both personal, and economical. Self-Govern means addressing directly without medium ship the source of all creation. 

4. Self-Govern means being mature enough to harmonize any disharmonic energy that may arise as a byproduct of living on this planet. Self-Govern means taking responsibility and control over our affairs.  Self-Govern means we no longer require the services or overseeing of any governmental structure.  

Article XXII. Indigenous law and jurisdiction 

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to promote, develop and maintain their institutional  structures and their distinctive customs, spirituality, traditions, procedures, practices and, in the cases  where they exist, juridical systems or customs, in accordance with international human rights  standards.  

2. The indigenous law and legal systems shall be recognized and respected by the  national, regional and international legal systems.  3. The matters referring to indigenous persons or to their rights or interests in the  jurisdiction of each state shall be conducted so as to provide for the right of the indigenous people to  full representation with dignity and equality before the law. Consequently, they are entitled, without  discrimination, to equal protection and benefit of the law, including the use of linguistic and cultural  interpreters.  4. The States shall take effective measures in conjunction with indigenous peoples to  ensure the implementation of this article. 

 The Jurisdiction of Our Creator is Supreme  

As fully remembered connected and living beings, we recognize, believe and have full faith in the Eternal Jurisdiction of Source/God/Our Creator. It is our right to acknowledge that as living men and women we are the children of the living light and eternal presence. Until another can prove under penalty of perjury with 2 witnesses signed in wet ink, that they have created our spirit, our body, our mind, they cannot have any control, power, or jurisdiction over any part of our being. The burden of proof is own those who claim they have lawful right to dictate the contents of our being spiritually and physically.  

Until another can prove that our soul essence belongs to them, they cannot make any judgments against us. It is against our religion to be judged by any other than Our Creator. It is not possible for any corporation, business, court, non living thing to have administrative power over a living spirit and one who is whole and complete. 

The legal support for the State’s lack of jurisdiction over the church in America is not only the Word of God, and the Spirit of Sacred Plants but the First Amendment to the Constitution for the United States, as stated above and below.  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. No church in any nation at any point in history can lay claim to the freedoms and liberties that are guaranteed the church in America. The First Amendment is an act of God’s Providence to safeguard His church and maintain its independence from the State. The First Amendment is the highest form of real protection the church has ever known in history. 

Article XXIII. Contributions of the indigenous legal and organizational systems 

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to full and effective participation in decision making, through representatives chosen by themselves in accordance with their own institutions, in  matters which affect their rights, and which are related to the development and execution of laws,  public policies, programs, plans, and actions related to indigenous matters. 

2. States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples  concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and  informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may  affect them.

Article XXIV. Treaties, agreements, and other constructive arrangements 

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the recognition, observance, and enforcement of  the treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements concluded with states and their  successors, in accordance with their true spirit and intent in good faith and to have the same be  respected and honored by the States. States shall give due consideration to the understanding of the  indigenous peoples as regards to treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements.  

2. When disputes cannot be resolved between the parties in relation to such treaties,  agreements and other constructive arrangements, these shall be submitted to competent bodies,  including regional and international bodies, by the States or indigenous peoples concerned.  

3. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as diminishing or eliminating the  rights of indigenous peoples contained in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements.  

SECTION FIVE: Social, Economic, and Property Rights 

Article XXV. Traditional forms of property and cultural survival. Right to land, territory, and  resources 

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive  spiritual, cultural, and material relationship to their lands, territories, and resources and to assume  their responsibilities to preserve them for themselves and for future generations. 

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they  have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.  

3. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands,  territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional  occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired. 

4. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and  resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land  tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.  

5. Indigenous peoples have the right to legal recognition of the various and particular  modalities and forms of property, possession and ownership of their lands, territories, and resources  in accordance with the legal system of each State and the relevant international instruments. The  states shall establish the special regimes appropriate for such recognition, and for their effective  demarcation or titling. 

Article XXVI. Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation or initial contact 

1. Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation or initial contact have the right to remain in  that condition and to live freely and in accordance with their cultures.  

2. The states shall adopt adequate policies and measures with the knowledge and  participation of indigenous peoples and organizations to recognize, respect, and protect the lands,  territories, environment, and cultures of these peoples as well as their life, and individual and  collective integrity.  

Article XXVII. Labor Rights 

1. Indigenous peoples and persons have the rights and guarantees recognized in national  and international labor law. States shall take all special measures to prevent, punish and remedy the  discrimination to which indigenous peoples and persons are subjected. 

2. States, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, shall adopt immediate and effective  measures to eliminate exploitative labor practices with regard to indigenous peoples, in particular,  indigenous children, women and elders.  

3. In case indigenous peoples are not effectively protected by the laws applicable to  workers in general, states, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, shall take all measures that may be  necessary in order to: 

a. protect indigenous workers and employees in relation to contracting under  fair and equal conditions in both formal and informal employment; 

b. establish, apply, or improve labor inspection and the enforcement of rules  with particular attention to, inter alia, regions, companies, and labor  activities in which indigenous workers or employees participate; 

c. establish, apply or enforce laws so that both female and male indigenous  workers: 

i. enjoy equal opportunities and treatment in all terms, conditions, and  benefits of employment, including training and capacity-building,  under national and international law; 

ii. enjoy the right of association, the right to form trade unions, and join  trade union activities, and the right to bargain collectively with  employers through representatives of their own choosing or workers’  organizations, including traditional authorities; 

iii. are not subject to discrimination or harassment on the basis of, inter  alia, race, sex, indigenous origin or identity; 

iv. are not subject to coercive hiring systems, including debt servitude or  any other form of forced or compulsory labor regardless of whether  the labor arrangement arises from law, custom, or an individual or  collective arrangement, in which case the labor arrangement shall be  deemed absolutely null and void; 

v. are not forced to work in conditions that endanger their health and  personal safety; and are protected from work that does not comport  with occupational health and safety standards; and 

vi. receive full and effective legal protection, without discrimination,  when they provide their services as seasonal, occasional, or migrant  workers, as well as when they are contracted by employers such that  they receive the benefits of the national legislation and practices,  which shall be in accordance with the international human rights  laws and standards for this category of workers;  

d. ensure that the indigenous workers and their employers are informed of the  rights of indigenous workers under national law and international and  indigenous standards, and of the remedies and actions available to them to  protect those rights. 

 4. States shall take measures to promote employment of indigenous individuals. 

Article XXVIII. Protection of Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property 

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the full recognition and respect for their  property, ownership, possession, control, development, and protection of their tangible and intangible  cultural heritage and intellectual property, including its collective nature, transmitted through  millennia, from generation to generation.  

2. The collective intellectual property of indigenous peoples includes, inter alia,  traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions including traditional knowledge associated  with genetic resources, ancestral designs and procedures, cultural, artistic, spiritual, technological,  and scientific, expressions, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, as well as the knowledge and  developments of their own related to biodiversity and the utility and qualities of seeds and medicinal  plants, flora and fauna.  

3. States, with the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, shall adopt  measures necessary to ensure that national and international agreements and regimes provide  recognition and adequate protection for the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples and intellectual  property associated with that heritage. In adopting these measures, consultations shall be effective  intended to obtain the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples.  

Article XXIX. Right to development 

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and determine their own priorities with  respect to their political, economic, social, and cultural development in conformity with their own  world view. They also have the right to be guaranteed the enjoyment of their own means of  subsistence and development, and to engage freely in all their economic activities  

2. This right includes the development of policies, plans, programs, and strategies in the  exercise of their right to development and to implement them in accordance with their political and  social organization, norms and procedures, their own world views and institutions.  

3. Indigenous peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and  determining development programs affecting them and, as far as possible, to administer such  programs through their own institutions.  

4. States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples  concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free and informed  consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources,  particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other  resources. 

5. Indigenous peoples have the right to effective measures to mitigate adverse  ecological, economic, social, cultural, or spiritual impacts for the implementation of development  projects that affect their rights. Indigenous peoples who have been deprived of their own means of  subsistence and development have the right to restitution and, where this is not possible, to fair and equitable compensation. This includes the right to compensation for any damage caused to them by  the implementation of state, international financial institutions or private business plans, programs, or  projects. 

Article XXX. Right to peace, security, and protection  

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to peace and security.  

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to recognition and respect for their institutions for  the maintenance of their organization and control of its communities and peoples.  

3. Indigenous peoples have the right to protection and security in situations or periods  of internal or international armed conflict pursuant to international humanitarian law.  

4. Sovereign Souls Church is protect by Tribal Enterprise 'Yaahkii Aboriginals'. 

5. States, in compliance with international agreements to which they are party, in  particular international humanitarian law and international human rights law, including the Fourth  Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war, and Protocol  II of 1977 relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts, in the event of  armed conflicts shall take adequate measures to protect the human rights, institutions, lands,  territories, and resources of the indigenous peoples and their communities. Likewise, States: 

a. Shall not recruit indigenous children and adolescents into the armed forces  under any circumstances;  

b. Shall take measures of effective reparation and provide adequate resources  for the same, in jointly with the indigenous peoples affected, for the damages  incurred caused by an armed conflict.

c. Shall take special and effective measures in collaboration with indigenous  peoples to guarantee that indigenous women, children live free from all  forms of violence, especially sexual violence, and shall guarantee the right to  access to justice, protection, and effective reparation for damages incurred to  the victims.  

6. Military activities shall not take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples, unless  justified by a relevant public interest or otherwise freely agreed with or requested by the  indigenous peoples concerned.

SECTION SIX: General Provisions 

Article XXXI 

1. The states shall ensure the full enjoyment of the civil, political, economic, social, and  cultural rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their right to maintain their cultural identity, spiritual  and religious traditions, worldview, values and the protection of their religious and cultural sites, and  human rights contained in this Declaration. 

2. The states shall promote, with the full and effective participation of the indigenous  peoples, the adoption of the legislative and other measures that may be necessary to give effect to the  rights included in this Declaration. 

Article XXXII 

All the rights and freedoms recognized in the present Declaration are guaranteed equally to  indigenous women and men.  

Article XXXIII 

Indigenous peoples and persons have the right to effective and appropriate remedies,  including prompt judicial remedies, for the reparation of all violations of their collective and  individual rights. The states, with full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, shall provide  the necessary mechanisms for the exercise of this right.  

Article XXXIV 

In case of conflicts and disputes with indigenous peoples, states shall provide, with the full  and effective participation of those peoples, just, equitable and effective mechanisms and procedures  for their prompt resolution. For this purpose, due consideration and recognition shall be given to the  customs, traditions, norms or legal systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.  

Article XXXV  

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted so as to limit, restrict, or deny human rights in  any way, or so as to authorize any action that is not in keeping with international human rights law.  

Article XXXVI  

In the exercise of the rights enunciated in the present Declaration, human rights and  fundamental freedoms of all shall be respected. The exercise of the rights set forth in this Declaration  shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law and in accordance with  international human rights obligations. Any such limitations shall be non-discriminatory and strictly  necessary solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms  of others and for meeting the just and most compelling requirements of a democratic society. The provisions set forth in this Declaration shall be interpreted in accordance with the  principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, equality, non-discrimination, good  governance, and good faith. 

Article XXXVII  

Indigenous peoples have the right to have access to financial and technical assistance from  States and through international cooperation, for the enjoyment of the rights contained in this Declaration. 

Article XXXVIII 

The Organization of American States, its organs, agencies, and entities, shall take all  necessary measures to promote the full respect, protection, and application of the rights of indigenous  peoples contained in this Declaration and shall endeavor to ensure their efficacy.  

Article XXXIX 

The nature and scope of the measures that shall be taken to implement this Declaration shall  be determined in accordance with the spirit and purpose of said Declaration.  

Article XL  

Nothing in this declaration shall be construed as diminishing or extinguishing rights that  indigenous peoples now have or may acquire in the future.  

Article XLI  

The rights recognized in this Declaration and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of  Indigenous Peoples constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity, and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.