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Restoring full tribal criminal authority will only end violence against Native women if Indian nations have the institutional capacity and readiness to exercise such jurisdiction. Many Indian nations are developing the infrastructure for tribal justice systems to provide safety to Native women and girls within their territories, including law enforcement, codes, and courts. Many have domestic violence codes; training for...
The Center collaborates with Native women’s organizations and Indian nations to change and improve United States law that unjustly restricts Indian nations from adequately investigating, prosecuting, and punishing these crimes against all perpetrators. The Center supports efforts to strengthen Indian nations in restoring safety to Native women and children. Our project recognizes that to protect Native women and children we...
The epidemic of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women highlights the United States’ failure not only under its own law, including the trust responsibility to Indian nations “to assist tribal governments in safeguarding the lives of Indian women,” but also under international human rights law. Perhaps the most basic human right recognized under international law is the right...
It is outrageous that the vast majority of Native women never see their abusers or rapists brought to justice. A discriminatory, racist criminal jurisdictional scheme created by the United States has limited the ability of Indian nations to protect Native women and children from violence and to provide them with meaningful remedies. For more than 35 years, United States law...
Attorney Leonardo Crippa delivers a statement to the UN Human Rights Council during the Council’s discussion on the right to development. Text of Oral Statement Text of Oral Statement (in Spanish) Submitted Written Statement: International Legal Standards for the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks
The World Conference Outcome Document The World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, held September 22-23, 2014, at UN Headquarters in New York, was an historic opportunity to win decisions to advance and implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The World Conference Outcome Document was the result of years of preparation and negotiation and contains important decisions to...
General Assembly Resolutions Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly, October 15, 2012[GA Resolution on the Modalities of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (A/RES/66/296)] Resolution on Indigenous Peoples, December 2013 [GA Resolution on Rights of indigenous peoples (A/RES/68/149)] Informals on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples - Facilitators UN Human Rights Council Resolutions October 1, 2015: Human Rights Council Resolution...
The following proposals and memoranda were written in response to the need to identify concrete and action-oriented recommendations for the UN system and member states to adopt at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, in order to advance the objectives of the UN Declaration. Recognizing the historic but limited opportunity provided by the World Conference, the following proposals enjoyed broad...
Our Law Reform project is directed at increasing understanding and support for the sovereign rights of Indian and Alaska Native nations and assisting them in winning needed improvements in federal law. The law affecting tribes is terribly antiquated and unfair. Among the most serious problems are the impediments of federal law that unfairly restrict economic development for all tribes and...