United Nations General Assembly

Video: 15-year-old Climate Warrior Addresses U.N., Calls Climate Change a ‘Human Rights Issue’

ICTMN Staff

7/5/15

Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez, who was raised in the Aztec tradition, spoke earnestly to the United Nations General Assembly June 29 challenging the representatives to make “great dec...

The Limitations of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Steven Newcomb

3/13/14

For nations and peoples typically called “Indigenous,” 2014 will be an important year in the international arena. This coming September, the United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to convene a High Level Plenary Meeting (HLPM) regarding the U.N....

A World Conference on Indigenous Peoples With No Indigenous?

Gale Courey Toensing

2/3/14

With no assurance from the United Nations General Assembly’s top official that Indigenous Peoples will participate on a full and equal basis with states at the World Conference on ...

US Denies Visas to Ecuadoreans Connected to $18B Chevron Case

ICTMN Staff

9/25/13

The ongoing struggle in Ecuador’s fight with Chevron-Texaco added a new wrinkle to the story on September 20 when the United States denied visas to an Ecuadorian delegation that wa...

Baby Veronica Is a Victim of Colonial Domination

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

8/14/13

Click here to read part 1 by Dina Gilio-Whitaker....

Indigenous Self Determination In International Law Key

Gale Courey Toensing

6/20/13

The theme of self-determination as defined in international law runs like a thread through a document that emerged from an Indigenous Peoples meeting in Norway last week in prepara...

Preparing for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

3/26/13

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....

Ambassador Chris Stevens Mourned Across Indian Country as Peacemaker, Diplomat

David P. Ball

9/28/12

In the wake of the violent death of United States Libyan Ambassador J...

Self-Determination, LBJ and UNDRIP

Chris Stearns

5/10/12

On a sunny September day in New York City in 2007, the United Nations General Assembly gathered to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights o...

From Arab Spring Into Indian Summer?

Julia Good Fox

9/23/11

Tellingly, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave his speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations yesterday, he made no mention of t...

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