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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, highlighting a critical issue for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN), and Native Hawaiian women who experience domestic violence at significantly higher rates than other women. According to the National Institute of Justice, more than 1.5 million American Indian and Alaska Native women and 1.4 million Native men have experienced violence in their lifetime...
November 16, 2021 - This week, President Biden fulfilled his campaign promise to revive — after a four-year absence — the annual White House Tribal Nations Summit established during the Obama Administration. On November 15, 2021, President Biden also took an important Presidential Action, issuing an Executive Order on Improving Public Safety and Criminal Justice for Native Americans and Addressing...
List of Concepts Raised in relation to Article XXIV,“Traditional forms of property and cultural survival. Right to lands, territories and resources,” at the Fifth Meeting of Negotiations in the Quest for Points of Consensus on the Draft American Declaration.
November 9, 2021Clement ChartierAmbassador of the National Government of the Red River Métis, President of the American Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP)Virtual( Español) In the aftermath of the global pandemic caused by COVID 19 and its variants, all national governments in the Americas must take proactive measures to address the devastation of the social and economic structures of societies across...
The Center is accepting proposals from strategic communications/public affairs firms that can help us create and implement a robust communications strategy to raise awareness and the profile of our Indigenous land rights case against the government of Guatemala that is now before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The selected Firm will help create clear, jargon-free, and moving messages (in...
A Parallel Event – NGO CSW Forum UN Commission on the Status of Women 66th Session March 22, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Eastern) Indigenous women will discuss how climate change may increase and fuel violence against them, and the strategies they are pursuing to restore safety in their communities. When unsustainable development takes and damages indigenous land...
White House Fact Sheet:Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Today, March 15th, President Biden signed the VAWA 2022 Reauthorization into law. [1] “The long awaited reauthorization of VAWA comes at a critical time when American Indian and Alaska Native face unprecedented levels of violence on tribal lands and in Alaska Native villages,” said Jana L. Walker, Senior Attorney...
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis in America is not just the result of the failures of our criminal justice system, it is a result of systemic violations of Indigenous women’s human rights. The presentation will review the international legal framework applicable to MMIW and other forms of violence committed against Indigenous women. We will look closely at...
President Biden proclaimed May 5, 2022, as Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day calling on all Americans and asking “all levels of government to support Tribal governments and Tribal communities’ efforts to increase awareness of the issue of missing or murdered Indigenous persons through appropriate programs and activities” and to “commit to working with tribal Nations and communities to...