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Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will save lives As world leaders are gathered in Lima, Peru for the UN's annual climate change conference, Armstrong Wiggins is calling for action to bring justice to indigenous peoples in Peru. He tells a heart-breaking story about the high price indigenous leaders in the Amazon are paying to speak...

December 19, 2014 HELENA, Mont. — President Barack Obama has signed into law a repeal of Section 910, the provision in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) that prevented all but one of the 229 Alaska Native villages from ever exercising the special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction that the law had restored to other tribes. Another key...

WASHINGTON —The Organization of American States (OAS), a regional intergovernmental organization that seeks to build collaboration among its 35 member countries of the Americas, has resumed negotiations on the draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The 15 th negotiation was held February 9-11 in Washington, D.C. “It is important that indigenous representatives from throughout the Americas attend...

The Indian Law ResourceCenter will be participating in the fifty-ninth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, March 9-20, 2015. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world attend the session. The main focus of the session will...

Will Micklin, 1st vice president of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, participated in the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples on Sept. 22-23, 2014 in New York City. June 24, 2015 | Follow-up work on key commitments made by the United Nations to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is progressing...

(WASHINGTON, D.C) — In the global race to preserve biological diversity and stave off climate change, conservation projects, such as protected areas, have had a devastating impact on indigenous peoples in throughout North, Central and South America, including Mexico and the Caribbean. A new resource, Conservation and Indigenous Peoples in Mesoamerica: A Guide, is intended to educate conservation actors, including...

Commission on the Status of Women In March, Center attorney Chris Foley attended the 59 th Session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, which took place in New York. The session focused on progress made toward the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and looked at opportunities for using the post-2015 development agenda to...

Lisa Frank, Gwich’in, finds strength from her Native culture to speak up for women who have been the victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse in Alaska. The Safe Women, Strong Nations project works to end violence against Native women and to strengthen the ability of Indian nations to address the alarming rates of violence against American Indian and Alaska...