CWIS has teamed up with the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) draft and negotiate the Indigenous People’s Forum Treaty Negotiating Text to be incorporated in the international…
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Public Good Project congratulates the Center for World Indigenous Studies on its 25th anniversary.
Read moreThe first public memorial service ever held in Rome for the victims of Catholic Indian Residential Schools was conducted today outside the Vatican shortly after Pope Joseph Ratzinger spoke to…
Read moreThousands of South American indigenous people have demonstrated in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay from 12 to 16 October as part of the 'minga global' call for Mother…
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Batasuna’s top leader, Arnaldo Otegi, trade-union leader Rafa Diez and Rufi Etxeberria, among others, have been accused of organizing a new political group, allegedly successor of Batasuna · Basque Nationalist…
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Since February there have been ongoing government assaults on the Samburu people and allied tribes by the Kenyan government, with many people killed and almost all Samburu cattle confiscated. The…
Read moreThe UK government today blasted FTSE-100 company Vedanta Resources over its treatment of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Orissa, India.
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“We're crazy for water,” chanted about a thousand campesinos as they marched through the streets of downtown Cuenca in southern Ecuador on Monday. The march, called for by the Confederation…
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It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they can’t be blamed….
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A new report released on the eve of the second anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples shows that it is increasingly…
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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