Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 78)

Cougar Repopulates Turtle Island

The name bestowed on the mighty killer cats of North and...

Hidden Amazon Wildfires Devour More Rainforest Than Logging: NASA

Hidden, low-undergrowth fires are taking a bigger toll on...

World Indigenous Conference: Melding Conservation and Land Rights

Conservation seems like a 100-percent great idea. Who...

What Lies Beneath: Digitally Denuded Antarctic Shows Land Mass Stripped of Ice

The sprawling land mass that is Antarctica—under all that...

Hupacasath First Nation Heads to Court Over Canada-China Treaty, Holds June 5 Day of Action

A small Vancouver Island First Nation is taking the federal...

Etsy Feather Controversy Goes International

A teepee-maker and self-styled defender of Native rights...

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World News

Endorsing Their Rights: Canadian Parliament Passes UN Declaration Resolution

Gale Courey Toensing

April 23, 2008

The Canadian Parliament has endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by a majority vote – an action that was lauded by indigenous peoples’ organi...

2007 Victory: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Adopted

Gale Courey Toensing

December 26, 2007

On Sept. 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with 143 member states voting for it and 11 abstaining...

United Nations Approves Indigenous Declaration

Valerie Taliman

September 14, 2007

After three decades of drafts, deliberations and delays, the United Nations General Assembly voted on September 13 to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...

Feeding the Spirits: Activism at the United Nations

ICTMN Staff

May 30, 2007

The late Muskogee-Creek elder Philip Deere declared at the historic 1977 address to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, that “We the Indigenous Peoples, are the evidence of ...

Organizations Sponsor Panels at United Nations Forum

Gale Courey Toensing

May 23, 2007

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, an advisory body to the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council, is mandated to discuss indigenous issues related to economic an...

Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Women Discussed at United Nations

Gale Courey Toensing

May 23, 2007

NEW YORK – In Mexico, Ines Fernandez Ortega, a 27-year- old woman, was preparing food in her kitchen when a group of soldiers entered her house and raped her...

Declaration on Indigenous Rights Delayed

Valerie Taliman

November 30, 2006

A number of African nations, led by Namibia, were successful on November 28 in persuading the majority of nation states to delay adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the R...

Indigenous Rights Declaration Moves to Human Rights Council

Valerie Taliman

March 31, 2006

GENEVA—Now that the U.N...

U.N. Negotiations on Indigenous Rights Wrap Up, for Now

Valerie Taliman

February 17, 2006

GENEVA—The current round of negotiations on the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples came to a close on February 3 with nearly two-thirds of the pro...

Indigenous Human Rights Negotiations Progress

Valerie Taliman

December 30, 2005

GENEVA—Native delegations at the United Nations are making progress in negotiations toward the eventual adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, an unpreced...