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Support Bonaire Human Rights
Please join us! With your donation, we’re one step closer to make a Better Bonaire for the Natives.
It is a difficult task at hand with limited resources and manpower and as such we appreciate and like your support to assist us in this fight. Note, all funds collected will be used for the work within our Organizations on a daily basis to help to Aid/support the victims of a misplaced social system, fund Public awareness Materials, 3 times per week informative live radio programs, flyers, capacity building and empowerment, workshops, continued research and reporting, annual symposium, etc. It will also assist us to operate our downtown office and to support our campaign to get international attention in our trajectory to re-list Bonaire on the United Nations – Non-Self Governing Territories List. (“Protective List”.) While we have made some great strides, we have generated over USD 30,000 by way of car washes, BBQs raffles, roadside collections, radio-tons, etc. This helped us financed our lobbying and awareness visits to the UN and international community, work with international advisors, financed UN-recognized international research, assessment and report on our self-governance sufficiency continue local information and awareness programs, etc.… We still have a long way to go and a lot to accomplish. We need your support! Would you consider donating US$ 5, US$ 25 or US$ 50 - US$ 100, items or services in order to help us achieve our mission? We greatly appreciate your contribution.
“My Name is James Finies. I am a native Bonairean and so are my parents, their parents, their parents thereafter. I am a descendant of the Caiquetio Indian Tribe with some African blood and traces of European ancestry. In the 21st Century, we were re-colonize, displaced and abuse as a Nation by The Nederlands..”
— James Finies, Human Rights Activist
More Information about Bonaire
Brief History
Founder of the Bonaire Human Rights Organization – IN 2005, a young Commercial Banker in his 30(s), past president and a Founding member of NGO Platform Bonaire, National Player in both Tennis and Football, abandoned his professional life and turned human rights activist ahead of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on October 10, 2010. As in his eyes, the politicians, leadership and stakeholders of the island lacked to have learned from our colonial history and seemed to be compromised to follow a Dutch established governmental system that was imposed on us for our division and self-destruction, and NOT for our emancipation, empowerment and nation-building. On 10TH OCT, 2010, Bonaire was incorporated and integrated into the Dutch state structure, which was not done in accordance with the UN Self-Determination-rights principles. From that moment, James Finies decided to dedicate his life to fight this injustice and became a full-time non-political volunteer activist for this just cause, the fundamental rights of the Bonairean people.
Our Island Stolen From Us
The Nederlands reversed our autonomy which was not "freely chosen with the consent of all consequences" and as such violated the most fundamental human rights of the Native Bonerian people. In 2017, the Bonerians were un-democratically and unilaterally embedded in the Dutch constitution by the Dutch parliament in The Hague without the democratic possibility to amend or reverse this. They were forced to be part (Province) of Holland without equal rights making the Bonerian people second-class citizens in the same Dutch Kingdom and Dutch constitution. Hence, our borders were opened and unrestricted migration of Dutch-Europeans through aggressive promotional campaigns with incentives, to reside on Bonaire with tax holidays and benefits and they can vote in local elections within 90 days. This resulted in a massive settler’s migration that destitute the Bonerian peoples that within a decade, were reduced and became a minority on their own island. They have no representation at any forum and have no voice to defend their rights. NKBB embarked on a journey, a struggle to raise awareness on this unjust and illegal situation.
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