Category: Human Rights
Cancun Climate: Hopeful Signs
China and India are easing their opposition to US demands for climate compliance monitoring, reporting and verification for developing countries (a long time demand of the US government) and environmental…
Read moreWorld Indigenous Peoples’ Conference – 2014
During the last forty years since the UN Commission on Human Rights designated José Martinez Cobo as the Special Rapporteur responsible for conducting the “Study of the Problem of Discrimination…
Read moreOolichan, Salmon Decline and Oil
The “Coastal First Nations” is the name of a enormously important alliance between the Wuikinuxv Nation, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo/Xaixais, Nuxalk, Gitga’at, Haisla, Metlakatla, Old Masset, Skidegate and Haida nations located on…
Read moreCanada endorses UNDRIP; US stands alone
On Friday, November 12th, 2010, Canada joined Australia and New Zealand in reversing its decision to officially endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The…
Read moreAnti-Indian Movement Again
When ever privileged male voters in the United States believe their status and privileges are about to be challenged, they turn on the economically weakest with a vengeance. “Wealth has…
Read moreWHO Admits to Not Have Done Enough
“I hope this is a start of getting into a more intense contact,” the representative of the World Health Organization stated at the organization’s Geneva headquarters during a meeting with…
Read moreFinancial Liberalization, Globalization and Human Migration
Corporations and states’ governments have created a profoundly desperate situation for hundreds of millions of people that is already made more complicated by human induced climate change. Huge numbers of…
Read moreUN Indigenous Discourse A Disappointment
I sat in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations at the 9th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues last week listening to speakers from North American…
Read moreUNDRIP Implementation
UN Headquarters, United Nations. New York City I am sitting in on a side event preparatory to the afternoon meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The…
Read moreAustralia, New Zealand and now US?
I am today attending the 9th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN Headquarters in New York City. It appears this session promises to have…
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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