來自安第斯山脈、亞馬遜，和中美洲原民代表，11月18日至20日在祕魯國家博物館舉辦為期3天的「礦業、氣候變化和福祉」論壇，會中起草了利馬宣言。 共有376名原民和來自17個國家的相關參與者出席會議。
利馬宣言指出，「我們原本完整與充滿和諧生活的領土，現在已經變成污染和有毒的土地、變成軍事用地，並在犯罪中掙扎，因為政府採取親採掘政策，導致領土受到掠奪變得貧困。」
隨著原民代表發出利馬宣言，在秘魯南部省艾萊(Islay)出現緊張局勢，其社區成員試圖阻塞道路，抗議南方銅業公司的Tia Maria採礦計劃(Southern Copper Corporation's Tia Maria mine project)，因為他們擔心這計劃會影響水質和農業。
25日，秘魯能源和礦業部再次邀請原民組織的代表，討論有關於採礦和能源活動，原民人民協商法規草案， 此草案於10月25日遵照憲法法院的命令發表。
「隨著西方消費的急劇增長，掠奪我們的自然資源和已開發國家的工業化已經產生了全球氣候危機，其中還有糧食危機。全球暖化的影響，使我們的生存權利變得更加脆弱，並改變了我們千年來一直依靠地球母親的生活方式。」聲明指出。
「原民的生活影響全球暖化的程度最少。我們就是那些遭受最嚴重後果的人，而且在確定國家政策時，被排除在國際談判過程和流程之外。」，該宣言指出。
連署團體說，他們將在2011年6月21日進行大陸動員「面對採礦造成的影響、氣候危機和跨國公司，我們要為生活而防衛，為重建福祉，充分行使我們的權利。」
Indigenous representatives from the Andes, the Amazon, and Central America drafted the Lima Declaration at the three-day Forum on Mining, Climate Change and Well-being at the Museum of the Nation from November 18 through 20. It was attended by 376 indigenous and allied participants from 17 countries.
"Our territories full of life and harmony have been converted into territories of contamination and toxicity, territories of militarization and criminalization of struggles, territories of plunder and poverty because of pro-extractive policies guided by governments," the declaration states.
As the indigenous representatives issued the Lima Declaration, tensions intensified in Peru's southern province of Islay, where community members sought to block roads in protest of the Southern Copper Corporation's Tia Maria mine project, which they fear will impact water quality and agriculture.
On Thursday, the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines once again invited representatives of indigenous organizations to discuss the Draft Regulations for Consultation with Indigenous Peoples for the mining and energy activities, published October 25 in compliance with a Constitutional Court order.
"The exponentially growing Western consumption, the looting of our natural goods and the industrialization of the developed countries have generated a global climate crisis to which is joined a food crisis. The effects of global warming have increased the risks of vulnerability of our rights and are modifying our way of life that for millennia has depended on Mother Earth," the document states.
"Indigenous Peoples are those who contribute the least to global warming," the declaration states, "we are those who suffer its worst consequences and are excluded from the international negotiation processes and processes for defining national policies."
The signatory groups say they will carry out a Continental Mobilization on June 21, 2011 "in defense of life, for the reconstitution of Well-being (Buen Vivir), and for the full exercise of our rights in the face of mining impacts, the climate crisis and transnational corporations."
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