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The US Fails on Climate Change – Indigenous Peoples Threatened
As I suggested about a year ago, shortly after the US House of Representatives passed its version of climate change legislation, the Senate will fail to move on a Bill,…
Read moreIndigenous Statement
Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus comments on UNDRIP progress via the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the UN Human Rights Commission.
Read moreServing the Corporate State
A Harvard study of major media documents the complicity of outlets like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in covering up official high crimes and crimes against humanity…
Read moreFourth World Ambience
While the Fourth World is popularly perceived as pastoral and nomadic hunter-gatherers, Fourth World political entities are also comprised of modern indigenous economies, still governed by the law of generosity….
Read moreDemilitarizing Mapuche
While a delegation of Mapuche seeks assistance from the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, twenty Mapuche political prisoners in two Chilean penitentiaries began a hunger strike demanding the demilitarization…
Read moreIn the News
At the IUHPE 2010 world conference on health promotion last week, CWIS fellow Mirjam Hirch presented a paper on traditional knowledge and self-determination in indigenous mental health. In 2009, at…
Read moreInvested in Brutality
Markets of Murder Examining the human rights case of a Canadian mining company in Guatemala, where government troops were used to destroy a Mayan village to clear the way for…
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 moreMaking Amends
An international coalition of friends and relatives of victims of church residential schools is planning a summer tour in Europe, with major stops at the Vatican and UN. Comprised of…
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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