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National Week of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

The National Partners Working Group on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and the MMIW Family Advisors have organized a National Week of Action (May 1-May 7, 2023) as a call to action in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women. This week-long campaign provides a space for...

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Violence Against Rural Indigenous Women: Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, and the U.S.

A Parallel Event – NGO CSW Forum

UN Commission on the Status of Women 67th Session
Join us March 8: Violence Against Rural Indigenous Women: Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, and the U.S.
A panel of indigenous women from Brazil, Guatemala, and the United States will discuss how violations of indigenous peoples’ land rights and right of self-government expose their women and girls to racial discrimination, gender-based violence, and other human rights violations and how living in... read more
Indigenous Lands Initiative Awarded $20 Million from Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity Challenge

Helena, Montana, Oct. 11, 2022 – Today, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced the Indian Law Resource Center as one of the top awardees of its Racial Equity 2030 Challenge. The Challenge is awarding $80 million to five projects to help build and scale actionable ideas for transformative change...

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Statement of the Indigenous Nations and Organizations Coalition to the Organization of American States' 52nd General Assembly

October 5, 2022
Clement Chartier
Ambassador of the National Government of the Red River Métis, President of the American Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP)
Lima, Peru
(Español)

 
Declaración de la Coalición de Naciones y Organizaciones Indígenas ante la 52ª Asamblea General de la Organización de los Estados Americanos

5 de octubre de 2022
Clement Chartier
Embajador del Gobierno Nacional de Red River Métis, Presidente del Consejo Americano de Pueblos Indígenas (CAPI)
Lima, Perú
(Inglés)

 
Tribes, Conservation Groups File Motion to Support Rigorous Environmental Review of Little Rockies Mining
Mining company challenging State of Montana decision to require comprehensive review of mining activity
In Peru, Indigenous are Fighting Drug Traffickers

During the pandemic, some Latin American countries were so focused on dealing with Covid that they got distracted from other menaces like drug dealing. In Peru, a cocaine production boom has sieged indigenous territories and some national parks. CGTN America's Dan Collyns brings a story about...

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UN General Assembly Recognizes Right to a Healthy Environment

July 28, 2022 -- The United Nations General Assembly made an historic, groundbreaking move, declaring that everyone on this planet has the right to a healthy environment. 
Review of U.S. Compliance with the ICERD
A body of experts (CERD) will review U.S. compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Indian Law Resource Center and several indigenous women’s organizations submitted an alternative report, Violence Against Indigenous Women in the... read more

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