Indigenous nations representatives and representatives of indigenous organizations met for two days in Oaxaca, México October 10-12, 2011 participating in the Second technical workshop of Indigenous Peoples and States –…
read moreLast summer I reported on the decision by the Obama Administration to lift the ban on funding Indonesian death squads. Intercontinental Cry reports on the storming of the Papuan People’s…
read moreThe International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) was founded in 1944 to rebuild Japan and Germany after World War II. Once successful the IBRD found a new mission: “To…
read moreConcerns and recommendations of indigenous peoples on the Safeguard Policy review of the World Bank We, the undersigned Indigenous Peoples organizations and support NGOs, wish to express our dismay over…
read moreShe was an intern at the Center for World Indigenous Studies in 2001 and then she took on the important responsibilities of a CWIS Fellow focusing on Traditional Medicine Policy. …
read moreRotten to the Core might have been a catchier title for this post, but blaming poverty pimps like the Congress of Racial Equality for gaming the system of corporate philanthropy…
read moreThe United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is preparing to appoint a new UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism in its new term. The Center for World Indigenous…
read moreAs the Palestinian people struggle to become recognized as members of the international community, the United States government has launched an all out offensive to prevent Palestine from enjoying full…
read moreAn exhibition “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness,” opens today at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The exhibition tries to ‘map’ an Indigenous cultural…
read moreSix first nations on Vancouver Island have brought their complaint before the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, charging Canada with uncompensated taking of their ancestral territory…
read moreThe library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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