The Yezidi nation of Ezidikhan, in collaboration with 90 indigenous nations globally and talks with states, has since 2018 been laying the foundation for a permanent Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal (NICT) with the planned expectation that the Tribunal may be established in Yezidi territory inside Armenia as early as 2023.
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Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin started a vicious war attacking the independent state of Ukraine in February 2022 committing a trifecta of mass crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war…
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At the end of 2021, more than 89 million people have been forcibly displaced because of persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations. Fourth World nations have themselves on which to depend in defending against these myriad crises.
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The US government’s supreme court issued its decision denying the right of women to make decisions about their health and childbearing rights leaving the determination up to the state government….
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The United States government and the Canadian government have committed the crime of genocide against native peoples through the forced removal of native children from their families and their maltreatment…
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Indigenous peoples experience “in-hospital COVID-19 mortality rates two to three times higher than other people” in the United States. According to a JAMA public health study, they also suffer among…
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CWIS and the Center for Traditional Medicine have for over 45 years focused on the restoration revitalization and support of indigenous medicine throughout the world with a focus on the…
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Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war against the people of Ukraine shows the Russian military, at best, to be untrained and uncommitted. In some cases, they sabotage their own vehicles and otherwise…
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Extract from the latest Issue of the Fourth World Journal Fourth World Peoples worldwide face the daily challenge of whether they have access to the land that provides food, shelter,…
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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