On Friday, August 9 at 11:00AM EST, in celebration of International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we hosted a webinar, along with First Peoples Worldwide and the International Indian Treaty Council, entitled “Engaging FPIC: Understanding, Interpretation, and Self-Determination.”
On July 24, Andres Bol, an Indigenous resident of Crique Carco village, Belize, stood in front of a room of 115 Mayan villagers, and delivered the following message:
In July 2013, members of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), along with representatives of States, Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, human rights institutions, academics and UN Bodies gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, at the Sixth Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The five-day session convened around several discussions that endorsed the Alta Outcome Document as the official document for the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples; addressed the implementation and accountability of the UN Declaration on the Rig
By Hannah Ellman
Reposted from Intercontinental Cry
By Curtis Kline
July 26, 2013 was a gloomy day for the Maasai community who live in Narasha in Naivasha