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Violations of Indigenous Women’s Rights: Brazil, Guatemala, and the United States

(New York, NY) — Indigenous women leaders from the Americas convened virtually on March 22 nd for an important panel discussion on their grassroots movements to restore indigenous protections and to advance indigenous women’s rights, including their human right to be free of violence and discrimination. The parallel event, Violations of Indigenous Women’s Rights: Brazil, Guatemala, and the United States...

U.S. Supreme Court Reviews U.S. v. Cooley

In November 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari, agreeing to hear U.S. v. Cooley (No. 19-1414), a case arising within the Crow Tribe’s reservation on land defined as Indian Country. The question before the Supreme Court is “whether the lower courts erred in suppressing evidence on the theory that a police officer of an Indian tribe...

Fourth Meeting of Negotiations in the Quest for Points of Consensus

OAS Fourth Meeting of Negotiations in the Quest for Points of Consensus on the draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Fort Belknap Indian Community, Conservation Groups Challenge Mining Plan

Zortman Exploration Could Worsen Contamination of Tribes’ Water, Land Media Contact Andrew Werk, Jr., President, Fort Belknap Indian Community406-390-2650 (mobile) | 406-353-8305 (office)[email protected] Harlem, Montana (April 1, 2021)— Faced with the prospect of more mining in an area that has already experienced devastating health and environmental impacts from past mining, the Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC) today filed suit in...

A Journey into Five Decades of Struggles for Indigenous Self-Determination in the Americas

An Interview with Armstrong A. Wiggins published in IdeAs Journal https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/11159

2021 National Week of Action

Take Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls! Join us in a National Week of Action (April 29-May 5, 2021) to call the nation and the world to action in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). Take action by participating in these virtual events and organizing additional actions in your communities on or around...

The Center and COIAB's joint letter to President Biden urging protections for indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest in U.S. foreign policy, especially with respect to Brazil

President Biden: use the force of American diplomacy to end Bolsonaro's attacks on indigenous peoples and the Brazilian Amazon

The Center and COIAB (Coordination of Indigenous Organizations in the Brazilian Amazon) sent a letter to President Biden this week, alerting the administration to the increase in human rights violations against indigenous peoples in Brazil and urging the United States to prioritize the protection of indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest in U.S. foreign policy. The United States is in...

The U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Advisory Note: Protection of indigenous peoples' rights in Brazil under COVID-19

Urgent Call for Support Against Threat of Massacre by Miners

What can you do? Donate to frontline defenders of indigenous, environmental, and human rights like COIAB and APIB. Leaders from COIAB, APIB, the Munduruku Wakoborũn Women’s Association, and others representing the Yanomami, Munduruku, and Guajajara will be presenting the issues before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on July 1st at 11:00 a.m. EST. You can watch the hearing...