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Coastal Communities, Culture and Conservation Without Borders The Sitka Tribe of Alaska, the Douglas Indian Association, Ecotrust Canada, and the Center organized a roundtable in May of 2000 for indigenous leaders to discuss indigenous cultural and subsistence activities in the temperate rain forest region of Alaska and Canada. The tribes and First Nations attending the roundtable discussed the possibility of...
Robert T. Coulter, Leonardo A. Crippa, Emily Wann This paper provides legal support for the argument that multilateral development banks (MDBs) are legally obligated to promote and respect human rights. Currently, MDBs claim that they are not legally obligated to abide by international human rights law, and they do not have to promote or respect human rights when implementing projects...
Robert T. Coulter, Leonardo A. Crippa, Emily Wann
Indigenous peoples face many serious human rights and environmental problems due to illegal land expropriation, large infrastructure projects, forced displacement, and the imposition of extractive industry projects. The ongoing development of international human rights law is a critical legal and political tool. These laws which explicitly recognize the collective right of indigenous peoples to own, manage and control their traditional...
Associated Press article in the Billings Gazette. The Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes of Montana with the Montana Environmental Information Center amend a 2002 lawsuit asserting that "state officials refuse to address water pollution from old mining next door in violation of the Montana Constitution."
Report submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on December 11, 2007 as part of a national report by NGOs. Report prepared by a coalition of indigenous organizations and individuals, including the Indian Law Resource Center. The report was submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on December 11, 2007 as part...
Billings Gazette. Governor Schweitzer signs a bill for water treatment on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, addressing the reservation's top environmental concern after contamination from the Zortman-Landusky mines affected their water sources.
Op-ed article from the Bozeman Chronicle discussing the harmful effects of cyanide-leach mining, which could return if Montana Initiative 147 were to be passed, a repeal on the cyanide-leaching ban.
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