The United States apparently feared that the U.N...

Government officials in Bangladesh have come to a cross roads with the latest move by the current government to possibly remove the word “indigenous” from official documents in rel...

A primary goal of the human rights movement is to ensure equality for all persons and citizens of nation states...

The Navajo Nation with its spectacular Utah, Arizona and New Mexico landscapes of buttes, canyons, and wide open spaces is strikingly different from the Oneida Indian Nation of cen...

When President Barack Obama signaled last year that the United States had changed course and was now supporting the U.N...

Indigenous peoples around the globe have a new initiative to promote and protect their rights...

The following statement was delivered to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Tenth Session by Ghazali Ohorella, from Maluku, between the Philippines and Austral...

When indigenous leaders first visited the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977, they were seeking justice and a fair forum for the many treaty and human-rights vio...

When President Obama announced that the United States is “lending its support” to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during the White House Tribal N...