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February 16, 2017 | Washington, D.C. — The reported rates of abduction and murder of American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls are alarming. However, Native women advocates say too often these terrible crimes are ignored by law enforcement and the media.“Indigenous women go missing twice—once in real life and a second time in the news” said Amanda Takes...
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March 2, 2017 | Washington, DC Spanish The following is a statement presented by Armstrong Wiggins on behalf of the Indian Law Resource Center to the Organization of American States' Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs on follow-up of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Madam Chair, Ambassadors, Distinguished Guests of the Organization of American States: My...
The UN Commission on the Status of Women designated the “Empowerment of Indigenous Women” as the Focus Area for its 61 st Session in March, and this year’s meetings provided an important international forum to raise awareness about violence against indigenous women. “We, along with our partners, were very happy to help bring the perspective of Native and Alaska Native...
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March 17, 2017 | (New York, NY) — Indigenous women leaders from American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages, and indigenous organizations converged on March 15, 2017 for a critical panel spotlighting indigenous women’s empowerment, their grassroots movement for safety for indigenous women, and their human right to be free of violence and discrimination. The parallel event, Ending Violence Against...
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing in Washington, D.C. on the human rights impacts of several recent Executive Orders issued by President Trump, including the order calling for expedited environmental reviews of infrastructure projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline. In a striking break with practice, the United States did not attend this...
March 25, 2017 | Brittney Bennett, USA Today When you hear about violence against women, the commonly used statistics are 1 in 2 have experienced physical violence in their lifetime while 1 in 6 have experienced rape or attempted rape, according to the Department of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For indigenous women, the numbers are even...