Migrants and asylum seekers are protected by international human rights, refugee, and humanitarian law. We believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, no matter what their country of citizenship, their country of residence, their legal status, ethnicity, or their economic conditions. International human rights law was created to protect the most vulnerable populations, and the United States has a moral and legal obligation to uphold those standards and to treat with dignity any human beings fleeing conditions of violence and economic injustice. 

The Red Willow Womyn’s Family Society, Mill Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Image courtesy of The Legal News.

Cultural Survival Condemns the Trump Administration’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border
 

The Department of Homeland Security reported on June 15, 2018, that the Trump administration separated 1,995 children from the adults they were traveling with at the U.S. border between April 19 and May 31.

By Ulia Gosart

Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) remains among the most controversial regulatory mechanisms created to manage professional economic and social relationships between Indigenous communities and external parties.

Photo:  CODECA members march to Guatemala City from their communities to march on June 12, 2018. By @GtCodeca on Twitter. 

In the past weeks, three human rights defenders from the Campesino Development Committee have been killed, totaling seven fatal attacks on human rights defenders in Guatemala over the past four weeks.
 

Photograph of Musa Usman Ndamba by CIF Action UNPFII_20 on Flickr.

By Evan Klasky

Amnesty International’s 2017/2018 report on The State of the World’s Human Rights, released on February 22, 2018, outlines major issues facing Indigenous Peoples, including violence, land conflicts, insufficient health care, legal abuse, repression of freedoms, and criminalization.

By Emma Himmelberger