What to Tell Your Daughter When She’s Raped

Mary Annette Pember
3/2/16
Charon Asetoyer, CEO of the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center, (NAWHERC) vividly recalls the afternoon a Native mother visited her office and asked her what ...

Missing and Murdered Women Scope Surpasses the 1,200 Estimated Victims: Government

ICTMN Staff
2/16/16
As preliminary meetings paving the way for a national inquiry into murdered and missing aboriginal women wrapped up in Canada, officials admitted that the problem surpasses the 1,2...

The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country, February 7, 2016

ICTMN Staff
2/7/16
A poverty-induced death, a dried-up lake and housing for homeless vets were just a few of the items grabbing attention in Indian country this past week...

Sex Trafficking Experts Claim Amnesty International Has Betrayed Native Women

Mary Annette Pember
8/31/15
Advocates for indigenous women are outraged by what they call Amnesty International’s betrayal of those caught in the murky world of sex trafficking...

Are Tribal Courts Developed Enough For VAWA? Pascua Yaqui Proves It

Lee Allen
5/20/15
The American Bar Association Journal summed up the situation this way in a recent article on Reclaiming Sovereignty: “Indian tribes are retaking jurisdiction over domestic violence...

Fossil Fuel Extraction Dangers: Native American and Women’s Organizations Request UN Help on Sexual Violence

Honor the Earth
5/12/15
On April 21, 2015, a coalition of Native American and women’s organizations filed a submission to the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, requestin...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Remembered Across Canada, U.S.

ICTMN Staff
2/14/15
It is Valentine’s Day, but for many across Turtle Island, it is a day not of romance but to commemorate loss and celebrate lives that are no more...

Keith Harper on Indigenous Rights, Redskins and the Israel/Hamas Conflict

Gale Courey Toensing
8/11/14
Keith Harper, a Cherokee Nation citizen, was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the United State ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council and confirmed by...

Ending Violence Against Women: 19 Years of Progress

Lynn Rosenthal
9/13/13
Today marks the 19 th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)...

USET Develops Work Group to Address Violence Against Native Women

ICTMN Staff
6/23/13
President Barack Obama signed into law the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on March 7 surrounded by American Indian women who fought tirelessly for the pas...

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