How can the exercise of global indigenous sovereignty counter the growing destruction caused by the climate crisis? A 2012 interview with CWIS founder Dr. Rudolph Rÿser, republished in our most…
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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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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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A conversation with Ezidikhan Justice Minister Nallein Sowilo and Prime Minister Barjis Soso Khalaf. The Center’s mission advances the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide. We provide direct support to the…
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The Kurdish Regional Government, in an effort to forcibly dominate and take control of Ezidikhan, has threatened the life of the Yezidis’ supreme spiritual leader the Baba Shiekh Khurto Hajji Ismail and his son Samir Baba Sheikh.
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Read in English El gobierno nicaragüense en conjunto con la Compañía de Inversión de Desarrollo del Canal de Nicaragua (una pequeña compañía propiedad del empresario chino Wang Jing sin conocimiento…
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Leer en Español The Nicaraguan government in tandem with the Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company (a small company owned by Chinese entrepreneur Wang Jing with no known knowledge…
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CWIS Yezidi Recovery Fund Campaign The Most Recent Yezidi Crisis Ever since the 3rd of August 2014 when forces of the Islamic State attacked the Yezidi people in their indigenous…
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Boys stand among debris after fire destroyed shelters at a camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine State near Sittwe. Credit: Reuters The government of Burma…
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Witness this: China is committing cultural genocide against more than eleven million Uyghurs in their homeland of Uyghuristan northwest of China and there is essentially nothing being done by the…
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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