Category: Global Exchange
Applied Research
In this announcement from November 2010, the editor of Intercontinental Cry recounts how his indigenous news blog broke the story of police brutality against pastoralists in Kenya, prompting an investigation…
Read moreUNDRIP in the USA
The US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on June 9 held a hearing on domestic policy implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Comments and testimony…
Read moreQuinault Nation on UNDRIP – US Senate Hearing
Quinault President Fawn Sharp spoke before the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on 9 June calling for the United States to “adopt policies and enact legislation as necessary to…
Read moreGovernance and Accountability
Dr. Stephen Cornell addresses the Assembly of First Nations on reclaiming governance.
Read moreFirst Nations Health Council
The First Nations Health Council of British Columbia has voted to take over delivery of health services from the federal government of Canada.
Read moreAfrican Young Scientists Initiative
An international student conference sponsored by African Young Scientists Initiative on Climate Change and Indigenous Knowledge will take place August 15-17 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Abstracts are due by May…
Read moreAnke Weisheit Forms New Institute
Associate Scholar Anke Weisheit has successfully gained acceptance of her plan for the establishment the Institute of Indigenous Knowledge (IIK) at Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Mbarara, Uganda….
Read moreTexto de Salvaguardias de Cancún del AWG-LCA
The International Indian Treaty Council issued its 28 February 2011 Analysis of language regarding indigenous peoples under consideration by the UN climate change talks in Bangkok, Thailand (3 April –…
Read moreUS Intertribal Climate Change Policy Released
This is a "white paper" prepared by several American Indian Governments and several inter-tribal organizations entitled: "A Tribal White Paper on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation" August 2009. It was…
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CWIS Partners with UN Nairobi Work Program
The Center for World Indigenous Studies has been invited and has accepted to "partner" with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the Nairobi Work Program. The Nairobi…
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The 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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