Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Preparing for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

In 2010, after the United States as the final holdout endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the Bolivian government called for a high level plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to be held in 2014....

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March 26, 2013

World Intellectual Property Organization Blasted for ‘Misappropriation’ of Indigenous Knowledge, Resources

Gale Courey Toensing
May 16, 2012
Dozens of Indigenous Peoples showed up at a presentation by the World Intellectual Property Organization at the 11 th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Is...

The Doctrine of Discovery: Another Condemnation

Carol Berry
April 24, 2012
Whether they are looking ahead a couple of weeks to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues or recalling the past of 500 years ago, a panel of Native scholars on Ap...

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