The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Partnership Forums provide a formal way for members to engage, work together, plan and share information to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The land acknowledgements we hear today are based on an old tradition or protocol carried out by Indigenous communities in Canada. It is intended as a way for guests to show their respect for and pay homage to the Indigenous community with which they are visiting and engaging with.

Suriname has repeatedly failed to implement Indigenous Peoples’ rights, despite supporting a number of recommendations in this area during the previous two cycles of the UPR. As a result, Indigenous Peoples in Suriname, who make up roughly 4% of the population, face increasing and intensifying negative outcomes as a result of disproportionate inequities in their access to education, clean water, food, and a safe environment.

This document contains a list of Tribes that are not federally recognized by the US government, including the dates that they petitioned for full recognition (if applicable).

The Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters are located on the ancestral lands of the Anacostans, also known as the Nacotchtank. Our headquarters neighbor the ancestral lands of the Piscataway and Pamunkey peoples. We acknowledge that many of our operations across the nation are on hundreds of Indian tribes’ lands. We recognize the sovereignty of Tribal Nations and support the nation-to-nation relationship between the sovereign Indian tribes and the United States.

This notice publishes the current list of 574 Tribal entities recognized by and eligible for funding and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) by virtue of their status as Indian Tribes

The Standing Rock Tribal Government strives to be a more effective, efficient and visible government providing opportunities for our economy to grow through business development by educating our members to enhance the health and wellness of the people of Standing Rock.

We, the undersigned organizations, call on the United Nations Security Council to urgently impose a comprehensive global arms embargo on Myanmar to help prevent further violations of human rights against peaceful protesters and others opposing military rule. In recent weeks, Myanmar security forces have killed hundreds of people, including dozens of children, merely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

Recognizing that the situation of indigenous peoples varies from region to region and from country to country and that the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical and cultural backgrounds should be taken into consideration, Solemnly proclaims the following United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a standard of achievement to be pursued in a spirit of partnership and mutual respect:

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies towards Xinjiang have increased colonial development, further eroded Uyghur autonomy through force and ethnic assimilationism, and co-opted the “Global War on Terror” framing to portray all Uyghur resistance as “terrorism.” Since 2016, an intensified regime of technologically-driven mass surveillance, internment, indoctrination, family separation, birth suppression, and forced labor has implicated the provinces and municipalities of eastern China that fund the Xinjiang gulag through the Pairing Assistance Program, as well as potentially thousands of Chinese and international corporations that directly and indirectly supply and benefit from the system.