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Category: Human Rights

Just released: Summer 2022 Issue of the Fourth World Journal

Just released: Summer 2022 Issue of the Fourth World Journal

July 11, 2022

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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Abortion of Tribal Sovereignty and Enhancing Authoritarianism

Abortion of Tribal Sovereignty and Enhancing Authoritarianism

June 30, 2022

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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Canada, US & Church Residential School Crimes

Canada, US & Church Residential School Crimes

May 16, 2022

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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COVID in the Fourth World

COVID in the Fourth World

May 5, 2022

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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NGO as a Catalyst of Sustainability for Egongot Tribe

NGO as a Catalyst of Sustainability for Egongot Tribe

August 24, 2020

Giselle Morales has written a brief description drawn from the original article: Egongot Tribal Development and an NGO as a Catalyst for Sustainability by Ronnie Amatorio, Marilyn Dela Torre, Marivic Pajaro,…

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Thousand-year-old indigenous Burusho artifacts destroyed in Gilgit-Baltistan

Thousand-year-old indigenous Burusho artifacts destroyed in Gilgit-Baltistan

July 23, 2020

This blog highlights the work of Amir Wali Khan featured in the Center for World Indigenous Studies Fourth World Journal Winter 2020, Volume 19, Number 2.

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We Will Defend Each Other

We Will Defend Each Other

July 6, 2018

On the day Americans note their independence from Britain in the year 1776 when slavery officially still existed, I reflect on the words of Frederick Douglass: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick…

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Yezidi Update:<br>Camps Flooded

Yezidi Update:
Camps Flooded

June 11, 2018

Several weeks ago more than 25,000 Yezidi were inundated by rains that flooded them out of their camps. The Ezidikhan government immediately sought help from Iraq and got none so…

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Forced Sengwer People Evictions in Kenya: EU, WBnk, Finland Complicity

Forced Sengwer People Evictions in Kenya: EU, WBnk, Finland Complicity

May 24, 2018

The European Union, World Bank and Finnish government’s donation of funds to the government of Kenya for a conservation program and watershed protection facilities renders them complicit in alleged genocide…

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Ezidikhan Engagement, Reconstruction, Return and Judicial Remedies for the Crime of Genocide

Ezidikhan Engagement, Reconstruction, Return and Judicial Remedies for the Crime of Genocide

May 8, 2018

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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Chief 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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