Category: Human Rights
Indigenous Israelis and Palestinians
Locked in a seemingly endless embrace of self-destruction we find the cousin-nations of Palestine and Israel “driven by memory, trauma, and political identity and existential issues” observed Aaron David Miller…
Read moreUN Adopts WCIP Outcome
With the Holy See and Canada opting out of Article 13 and Article 3 (respectively) the UN High Level Plenary Session of the General Assembly today adopted the World Conference…
Read moreScottish Independence more than Economics
The New York Times published this article today, in which the author Neil Erwin characterizes Scotland’s bid for independence as a problem created by Britain’s elites. Britain’s current conservative government,…
Read moreSovereign Scotland and More
Scotland’s draft constitution begins with the words: “In Scotland, the people are sovereign.” The most basic decision a people can make is to exercise that sovereignty to govern themselves. On…
Read moreWB Double Edged Sword?
The World Bank is currently reviewing a draft policy statement updating its “safeguard policies” for a proposed environmental and social framework. in 1982 the World Bank released its policy concerning…
Read moreFourth World Center Stage
If you have been reading the news online, viewing on the television or listening on the radio you may notice that Fourth World nations are at the center of major…
Read moreOpen Letter to Haudenosaunee
{This note was originally written to Kenneth Deer, a noted spokesman for Haudenosaunee in international affairs. I have decided to share its content more widely today in English and Spanish}…
Read moreStates & Nations meet. The UN on the WCIP
Indigenous nations such as the Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca and Oneida have expressed deep concerns about the way the United Nations member states will carry out the High Level Plenary Meeting…
Read moreRohingya Nation in Crisis
The government of Burma (Myanmar) joined 143 UN member states on 13 September 2007 approving without reservation all of the principals and mandates contained in the UN Declaration on the…
Read moreAccountability and Indigenous Nations
Who Are the Political Representatives of Indigenous America? As the question of implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples looms on the political horizon; and the World…
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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