E/CN.4/2003/90 page 28 28 Statement by Tana Uma Amee at the nineteenth session of WGIP (monograph on file). 29 E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/2002/3, op. cit., para. 60. Similar incidents were reported directly to the Special Rapporteur during his official mission to the Philippines. See (E/CN.4/2003/90/Add.3). 30 Robert K. Hitchcock, “Decentralization, Natural Resource Management and CommunityBased Conservation Institutions in Southern Africa” Indigenous Affairs 4/01, IWGIA, p. 39, 31 Cultural Survival Indigenous News, Headlines and Spotlights, 9 August 2002. 32 National Commission of Human Rights, Recommendation No. 08/2002, 30 April 2002. 33 Detailed reports on these evictions appeared in the Mexican media in December 2002. 34 For reports on Australian aborigines see The second annual report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of Australia, 1994, p. 106. On the relation between uranium mining and the health of local Adivasi children in Jharkhand, India, see “The Miner’s Canary: Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development in the Commonwealth”, Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, p.32. 35 E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/24, op. cit., paras. 29-30. 36 Ibid., para. 31. 37 “The Proposed Construction of a Hydropower Scheme on the Lower Cuene River”, Indigenous Affairs 2/98, IWGIA, p. 6. It is estimated that “the inundation of the Cuene basin at Epupa would destroy the riverine forests. It would result in loss of an annual crop of hundreds of tons of the palm nuts and would in addition bring an end to gardening in the fertile soils along the riverbank.” 38 E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/24, op. cit., para. 31 and E/CN.4/Sub.2/2001/17, op. cit., paras. 87 and 106. 39 The Special Rapporteur visited one such mining site and witnessed its environmental impact. 40 E/CN.4/Sub.2/2001/17, op. cit., para. 39. 41 Ibid., para. 47. 42 Ibid., para. 32. 43 Ibid., paras. 35-37. 44 Information provided to the Special Rapporteur by the Asociación de Desarrollo Integral del Territorio Indígena de Rey Curré.