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Actions to Implement the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples Outcome Document List of Supporting 94 Indigenous Governments and 22 Organizations Current as of July 5, 2016 The UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples was an historic success, and the Outcome Document contains important decisions that will improve the lives of indigenous peoples and governments, but only if properly implemented. The...
Indian rights: A panel accuses the United States of violating an international treaty against racism
Statement on Behalf of 96 Indigenous Nations and 20 Indian Organizations(May 19, 2014) UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 13th SessionAgenda Item 6: Discussion on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples By the Cherokee Nation, MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Tonawanda Seneca Nation, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Yurok Tribe, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Ewiiaapaayp...
150 indigenous nations and organizations joined together to advance four concrete recommendations to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. Over the course of two years, these indigenous nations won the support of an overwhelming number of countries and all four recommendations were included in some form in the World Conference Outcome Document. Indigenous leaders realized early on the need to...
The World Conference Outcome Document was the result of years of preparation and negotiation, and was adopted by consensus of all 193 member states of the United Nations on September 22, 2014. The final Outcome Document contains the focus of all four of the recommendations proposed by the group of 150 indigenous nations and organizations, including: Initiating a process to...
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...
By Jana L. Walker Published by Equal Voice | November 18, 2014 Violence against women is a worldwide human rights violationBeing safe and living free from violence and discrimination are human rights. Yet, many women and girls across the globe are not safe. A 2013 study by the World Health Organization found that 35 percent of women worldwide have been...
April 28, 2014 Indigenous peoples depend on their sacred lands and places for their identity and for the free exercise of their cultural, religious, and spiritual practices. International human rights law recognizes the rights of indigenous peoples to their sacred places and to their cultural, religious, and spiritual practices. [1] Yet, development projects and extractive industries, often with the support...
September 2015 Violence against indigenous women and children is at epidemic levels. In the United States, for example, American Indian and Alaska Native women are still 2.5 times more likely to be assaulted than other women; one in three will be raped and three in five will be physically assaulted. Alaska Native women continue to suffer the highest rate of...
September 2015 Nothing would do more to achieve the objectives of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples than institutionalizing a permanent body in the UN with the authority and responsibility to promote compliance and monitor implementation of the Declaration. Development of a body with an appropriate mandate for implementing and monitoring must be swift but also thoughtful...