United Nations Permanent Forum is Going Paperless

Gale Courey Toensing
May 02, 2013
Tables piled high with multi-paged documents, brochures, announcements for side events, programs, agendas and reports in teetering stacks that overflow onto the floor – a forest’s ...
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
Charles Kader

On Jefferson Keel's State of Indian Nations Address

 

In reading over the 2013 State of Indian Nations address by outgoing President Jefferson Keel of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), a number of talking points of emphasis stood out as compelling subjects for further examination....

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February 16, 2013

Organizers Begin Planning for World Indigenous Conference; UN General Assembly to Host

Jenni Monet
October 20, 2012
It’s an event not expected to unravel for another two years, but organizers of the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples say the clock is ticking...

Athabasca Chipewyan Launch Treaty 8 Challenge to Shell Canada Over Oil Sands

David P. Ball
October 05, 2012
A First Nation whose land sits in the heart of the Alberta oil sands has ramped up its legal battle against the vast industrial development, which has generated controversy because...
Gabriel S. Galanda

Enforcing International Indigenous Rights in America

This summer I was honored to speak before the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding American Indian Treaty and consultation rights...

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October 01, 2012

Video Spotlight: Children Read U.N. Declaration as Fifth Anniversary Shows Lack of Progress

ICTMN Staff
September 13, 2012
Five years ago today, on September 13, 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was ratified ...

U.N. Declaration: Assembly of First Nations Holds Webinar September 13, 1:30 p.m.

ICTMN Staff
September 13, 2012
A webinar to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the ratification of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is just getting under way, hosted ...

Massive Land Losses Coming

Duane Champagne
August 30, 2012
One of the biggest shortcomings of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is that it does not actually define Indigenous Peoples...

James Bay Cree and Quebec Earn Environmental Accolades for Governance Pact

ICTMN Staff
August 17, 2012
The Eeyou Istchee (Grand Council of the Cree) of James Bay have signed a governance agreement with the government of Quebec that not only gives the First Nation much more control o...

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