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December - COAJ - Jujuy, Argentina In December 2006, Armstrong Wiggins, Director of the Washington D.C. office, and staff attorney, Leonardo Crippa, conducted a two-day training session in Jujuy, Argentina. The session was attended by more than one hundred and sixty local indigenous leaders and was focused on leadership development and the rights of indigenous peoples under international human rights...

For almost 15 years, the Center has provided legal representation to the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes of the Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation in their fight for environmental justice and clean-up of the contamination caused by the Zortman-Landusky gold mines. We filed successful legal challenges to the inadequate clean-up of the mine sites under the Clean Water Act, and eventually...

The Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Council is considering a federal lawsuit to challenge Congress' power to take Indian property and funds without compensation. They have asked for our help in securing a court decision that declares such takings unconstitutional. The Council wants to invalidate an act of Congress that confiscates a fund of money belonging to the Tribe and to other...

Protection of the environment is enormously important to Indian and Alaska Native nations. Yet collaboration between Native peoples and conservation organizations is often impeded because conservationists lack information about Native nations and their resources. There is no ready resource to provide conservationists with practical information about Indian and Alaska Native peoples, their lands, histories, cultures, and legal rights. We are...

United Nations adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in an Historic Vote on Thursday, September 13, 2007 Read more... Indian and Alaska Native nations and tribes have long used international law, especially human rights law, to challenge the discrimination and injustice that affect them. International human rights offer some real hope for overcoming the severe unfairness of the...

We have continued with our training in human rights advocacy for indigenous leaders in Central and South America and we are very excited about our new project, which we began in July 2006, to provide human rights training to tribal leaders in the United States. Indigenous peoples face many serious human rights and environmental problems due to illegal land expropriation...

The UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in an historic vote September 13, 2007. The Declaration was adopted by a substantial majority of nation states, with 143 voting in favor, 4 against, and 11 abstaining. Center staff have worked with the many indigenous nations, tribes and communities we represent for over 30 years toward...

We are very excited about our new project, which we began in July 2006, to provide human rights training to tribal leaders in the United States. The purpose of the project is to enable Indian and Alaska Native leaders to use human rights and human rights procedures both domestically and in the United Nations and the Organization of American States...

Reactions to the November 5th White House Tribal Nations Conference Rob Capriccioso/Indian Country Today photo President Obama met with Indian leaders on November 5th, and promised the over 400 in attendance that he would make sure First Americans, along with all Americans, get the opportunities they deserve. "The first step should be a commitment by the Administration to respect and...

ASOCIACIÓN ESTOREÑA PARA EL DESARROLLO INTEGRAL –AEPDI- Y SU PROGRAMA DE JUSTICIA “DEFENSORÍA Q’EQCHI” El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala, 29 de septiembre de 2009, La Defensoría Q’eqchi’ ante los hechos lamentables ocurridos contra la población Maya Q’eqchi’ en el municipio de El Estor, Izabal, ante la opinión pública nacional e internacional manifiesta: Su repudio total por los actos violentos que han...