Human Rights Watch is an international nongovernmental organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses around the world. In conducting our research in different countries, we apply international treaties currently in force in this field, and work with governments and civil society to uphold human rights and the rule of law. As you know, Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso suspended the effects of the Resolution on March 16, arguing that its provisions are unconstitutional.[2] The then Solicitor General challenged this suspension on procedural grounds. If his challenge succeeds, the resolution will go into effect. Rather than await a final ruling, FUNAI should revoke the Resolution once and for all and communicate with the Solicitor’s General Office so that it drops its challenge.
learn more downloadThis report, submitted by Human Rights Watch to the Canadian Standing Committee on Indigenous Northern Affairs, details the effects of climate change on indigenous lifeways and traditional sustenance methods. It…
learn more downloadTropical rainforests are also home to Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) who have sustainably managed these forests for generations but whose lands and rights are under increasing threat. Research demonstrates that IPLCs with recognized tenure and forest management rights are some of the world’s best forest protectors. The climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development benefits of IPLC management are significant, cost-effective, and with few negative side-effects for nature or people, as shown by mounting scientific evidence recognized by both the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
learn more downloadOf the approximately 7,000 Indigenous languages spoken around the world, four out of ten are in danger of disappearing, the United Nations has reported.1)
The impending extinction of these languages “puts the cultures and knowledge systems to which they belong at risk,” as UNESCO writes.This article aims at providing an overview of the state of Indigenous languages in the Arctic, relevant and current issues, as well as the role that regulations play in maintaining and strengthening Indigenous languages.
In Canada, the introduction of the “Indigenous Languages Act” in 2019 reignited discussions on the status and treatment of Indigenous languages and peoples. For this reason, the first article will focus on the example of Canada in order to examine some of the relevant controversies, cases of dispute, and the delicate balance in state support of Indigenous languages.
learn more downloadFor thousands of years, the Mohican people inhabited an island along the Mahhicannituck, known today as the Hudson River. Now, almost four centuries after their ancestors’ painful removal from the region, Papscanee
Island is being returned to the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.
A school district governing board, a charter school governing body or any public school may not prohibit a student who is a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe or who is eligible to be enrolled as a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe from wearing traditional regalia or objects of cultural significance at a graduation ceremony.
learn more downloadThe report of the DWG, the technical working group on the Declaration, provides a roadmap to achieve a “Vision 2040”. That is, realisation of the Declaration by 2040, the bicentenary of the signing of te Tiriti o Waitangi.
learn more downloadSawyer County
2020 – Tigercat Flowage: Disgruntled individual, erratic driving/high rate of speed in the landing parking lot.
2020 – Chippewa Flowage: Creel team reported hearing multiple gunshots
For many years, the leadership of Indigenous communities have identified a driver’s license as a key barrier to meaningful employment and the inequity in access to a driver’s license continues to impact the ongoing safety of Indigenous women and girls as well as access to traditional territories. In recent months the challenges around drivers licensing have been exacerbated further by the COVID-19 pandemic and require greater attention on behalf of the BC Government.
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