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Agua Caliente Lote 9 Community Leader Wins 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize

Español | (SAN FRANCISCO) — The Goldman Environmental Foundation today announced Rodrigo Tot is among the six recipients of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest award for grassroots environmental activists. Awarded annually to environmental heroes from each of the world’s six inhabited continental regions, the Goldman Prize recognizes grassroots activists for significant achievement to protect the environment and...

Líder de la Comunidad Agua Caliente Lote 9 Recibe Premio Ambiental Goldman 2017

(SAN FRANCISCO) - La Fundación Ambiental Goldman anunció hoy que Rodrigo Tot ha sido nombrado como uno de los seis galardonados del Premio Ambiental Goldman 2017, el premio más importante a nivel mundial para líderes y activistas ambientalistas de base. Otorgado anualmente a héroes ambientalistas de cada una de las seis regiones continentales habitadas, el Premio Goldman busca reconocer a...

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: 10 year Anniversary

April 25, 2017 (NEW YORK CITY) — It is hard to believe that on September 13, 2017, a decade will have passed since the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration remains the most significant development in international human rights law in decades, and it has sparked important conversations and actions regarding indigenous peoples’...

U.N. Human Rights Council adopts Declaration on Indigenous Rights (Indian Country Today)

National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls

On July 5, 2013, Hanna Harris, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, was reported missing by her family in Lame Deer, Montana. Hanna’s body was not found for five days. She had been raped and murdered. On some reservations, Native women are murdered at a rate more than 10 times the national average. Too often, indigenous women go missing...

U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Agreement Harmful to Indigenous Peoples

The decision by President Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement is stupid and harmful. Climate change threatens every region of our country, and every nation in this world, but it is Alaska Native tribes and indigenous peoples in other coastal areas who are among those most critically threatened and harmed by climate change. The refusal of this Administration to...

Standing with Standing Rock

Call for Partial Summary Judgement | Feb. 21, 2017The Center was among more than 118 Tribal Nations and organizations who joined the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center in an Amicus Brief urging the Federal District Court to declare the Army Corps' early termination of the EIS Process and grant of an easement to Dakota Access unlawful. Download Amicus Brief Sixth...

Indigenous leaders call for implementation of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

June 20, 2017 (Español) | Indigenous leaders are in Cancun, Mexico, this week calling on the Organization of American States (OAS) to take action during its 47th General Assembly to implement the promises in the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted June 15, 2016. The American Declaration offers specific protection for indigenous peoples in North America, Mexico...

Statement of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition to the Organization of American States’ 47th General Assembly

June 19, 2017Jaime AriasOrganization of American StatesCancun, MEXICO ( Español) Secretary General Luis Almagro, Ambassadors and Distinguished Guests of the Organization of American States:My name is Jaime Arias and I am a Kankuamo from Colombia, representing the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC). I thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this interactive dialogue on human rights, democracy, and...