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November 30, 2011 WASHINGTON – Nearly 20 years after the Violence Against Women Act was first signed into law, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday to further strengthen and improve the programs authorized under the landmark law to assist victims and survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The legislation is cosponsored by Senator...
COMMENTARY Robert T. Coulter* It has been just a year since President Obama announced the Administration’s support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and promised action to implement at least some of those rights. Across the country, tribal governments are seizing the Declaration and using it creatively to protect their lands and resources, and especially their...
December 15, 2011By Rachel BuxtonNo one wants to think about physical assaults happening to someone they know or even happening to themselves. However, out of any ethnic or racial group in the U.S., Native women face the highest rates of sexual violence and physical assault.One out of three Native women will be raped in her lifetime, and three out of...
By Cara Tabachnick Monday, December 05, 2011 In the decade since Donna O’Brien became a law enforcement officer at the Comanche Nation Police Department in Lawton, OK, she has seen many changes in how Indian Country—the description Native Americans still use for the vast territory inside the U.S. under tribal jurisdiction—is policed.Mostly, things have improved on her reservation, she says...
The White HouseOffice of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 28, 2011 Presidential Proclamation -- National Stalking Awareness Month, 2012 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION In our schools and in our neighborhoods, at home and in workplaces across our Nation, stalking endangers the physical and emotional well being of millions of American men...
The White HouseOffice of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 30, 2011 Presidential Proclamation -- National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2012 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Nearly a century and a half ago, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation -- a document that reaffirmed the noble goals of equality and...
Reply brief by the Gros Ventre Tribe for the District Court decision, asking to reverse the district court’s opinions.
. ..[W]e call on the President to fully implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We specifically call for a review of all existing federal law to ensure they are in alignment with the Declaration. In his State of Indian Nations Address, NCAI President Jefferson Keel called for the full implementation of the UN Declaration on...
Governmental Flexibility We exercise jurisdiction over lands that would make us the fourth largest state. We run dozens of social programs previously administered by federal agencies or states. And, we protect reservation environments in the manner that states regulate off reservation lands.Tribal governments have proven our capacity to grow our economies, educate our people, and manage our resources. We need...
The Center has filed additional comments related to REDD+ in our continued efforts to raise awareness of the importance of indigenous peoples’ rights in all efforts to combat climate change. We submitted comments to the UN-REDD Programme on two draft policies: the Draft Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Guidelines and the Draft Principles and Criteria and Benefit and Risk...