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What happens if I show COVID-19 symptoms/test positive while in Aruba?

Continued from Page 31 • Travel companion(s) of a toms can either stay in quarantine
suspected case will remain in quar- in Aruba at one of the designated
Negative: antine at host hotel while test re- quarantine locations or choose to
• If test results are negative, sults are pending depart the island.
the patient will go back to his/her • Travel companion(s) of the • In case a travel
host hotel, reunite with any travel confirmed case will need to pack companion(s) develops COVID-19
companions who will be simulta- their belongings as they would related symptoms while in quaran-
neously released from quarantine, need to be relocated and placed tine, the new suspected case will
and can resume their vacation. in quarantine at one of the desig- be transferred to the Diagnostic
nated quarantine locations for 14 Center to get tested and then be
Quarantine: Travel Companions days. This period restarts each time isolated at an assigned location
• Travel companions will not a new case is discovered within pending test results.
accompany the guest to the Diag- the group Source: https://www.aruba.com/
nostic Center or hospital. • A person not showing symp- us/traveler-health-requirements. q

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC):
Full Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples important to guarantee their

collective rights

PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD gion.The study by ECLAC institutionally pluricultural,
AND TOBAGO — ECLAC’s and FILAC raises the visibil- diverse, inclusive, equitable
Executive Secretary, Alicia ity of the situation of indige- and non-discriminatory,
Bárcena, and the President nous peoples and presents where the rights of indige-
of the Fund for the Devel- an updated overview of nous peoples are effective-
opment of the Indigenous the state of territorial rights ly recognized and guaran-
Peoples of Latin America and of forests, and the de- teed. “The 2030 Agenda for
and the Caribbean, Myrna mography and right to well- Sustainable Development,
Cunningham, presented a being of the indigenous adopted by the nations
study today that addresses peoples of Latin America, of the world in 2015, can
the reality of indigenous with the aim of contribut- constitute a great opportu- izing indigenous peoples’ have to defeat the culture
peoples in the region. ing to follow-up on the 2030 nity in this sense, if due and territorial demands are a of privilege and move to-
Agenda’s implementation proper attention can be widespread phenomenon wards a culture of equality
The more than 800 indig- and to the urgent actions paid in the next ten years to in the region, which unfor- that shows special respect
enous peoples present in needed to accelerate harmonizing its Goals and tunately are on the rise. for the great wealth of in-
Latin America should take compliance with the com- their corresponding targets She specified that in Latin digenous peoples. Abya
a leading role in decision- mitments that the region’s with indigenous peoples’ America, there are 1,223 Yala is a fully mature land,
making spaces, not only countries have taken on. collective rights,” the docu- land conflicts that have with lifeblood, and where
to safeguard their right ment emphasizes. With that prompted mobilizations by guaranteeing indigenous
to self-determination but According to the docu- aim, it calls for creating the indigenous peoples, which peoples’ rights is an urgent
also because of the sig- ment, the indigenous pop- legislative, institutional, have been met with repres- matter,” she affirmed.
nificant contributions they ulation in Latin America – political and economic sion and criminalization. As
can make to reformulating Abya Yala is estimated at 60 conditions that would re- a result, 232 defenders of Meanwhile, Myrna Cun-
development models, the million people, which rep- flect existing diversity and indigenous life and territory ningham, President of FI-
Economic Commission for resents 10% of the region’s give concrete shape to were murdered between LAC, noted that the docu-
Latin America and the Ca- total, belonging to more the commitment assumed 2015 and the first half of ment reflects a reality that
ribbean (ECLAC) and the than 800 different indige- by the world’s countries in 2019, which means that, on the COVID-19 pandemic
Fund for the Development nous peoples. It adds that, 2014 – in the framework of average, four indigenous has revealed: the intensi-
of the Indigenous Peoples 30 years since the adop- the World Conference on defenders are murdered in fication of racism, expo-
of Latin America and the tion of the Indigenous and Indigenous Peoples – to the region each month. sure of the inequality exist-
Caribbean (FILAC) under- Tribal Peoples Convention recognize, respect, pro- ing between indigenous
scored today in a joint pub- 1989 (No. 169) by the Inter- mote, advance and not di- The senior United Nations peoples and other sectors
lication. national Labor Organiza- minish in any way the rights official warned that the of society, and the crisis of
tion (ILO), and even though of aboriginal communities indigenous population the economic model that
The study entitled The In- Latin American States have and to defend the princi- continues to experience prevails in our region. “The
digenous Peoples of Latin fully recognized the rights ples of the United Nations a higher level of poverty document contributes el-
America – Abya Yala and of indigenous peoples, this Declaration on the Rights than non-indigenous peo- ements that can help us
the 2030 Agenda for Sus- collective continues to be of Indigenous Peoples. ple and that the wage in- to respond to the current
tainable Development: among the groups that lag equalities between indig- emergency situation, but
Tensions and Challenges the furthest behind in eco- During the launch of the enous workers and non-in- also to earnestly begin to
from a Territorial Perspec- nomic and social terms, study, Alicia Bárcena, digenous ones intensify ac- recognize, as a region, the
tive was presented by even when the region has ECLAC’s Executive Secre- cording to education level contributions of indigenous
Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s achieved major progress in tary, called for guarantee- and gender. peoples that are based on
Executive Secretary, and this area. ing the collective rights of their abilities, on their tradi-
Myrna Cunningham, Presi- the indigenous peoples of “We must put an end to the tional knowledge, on their
dent of FILAC, in a virtual The study specifies that one Latin America and ensur- culture of privilege that nat- capacity for governance
launch event moderated of the most important chal- ing they are not left behind uralizes inequalities and dif- and articulation between
by Javier Ciurlizza, Director lenges that the region’s on the path to sustainable ferent types of discrimina- the national, local and in-
of the Ford Foundation’s countries face is the forg- development. She warned tion, which we have inherit- ternational spheres,” she
Office for the Andean Re- ing of societies that are that processes for criminal- ed from colonial times. We expressed.q