Policing and Human Rights - Native American Rights Fund and University of Colorado Law School Project Condemn Killings and Call for Law Reform to Address Police Brutality and Racism

Policing and Human Rights – Native American Rights Fund and University of Colorado Law School Project Condemn Killings and Call for Law Reform to Address Police Brutality and Racism

June 3, 2020 In response to recent incidents of police brutality and racism in the United States, the Project to ...
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Panel Highlights Pandemia and Indigenous Communities: the meaning of COVID-19 for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Abya Yala

Panel Highlights Pandemia and Indigenous Communities: the meaning of COVID-19 for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Abya Yala

On May 27, 2020, the Promise Institute for Human Rights brought together experts for a virtual panel discussing the meaning ...
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UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Launches Study on COVID-19 Pandemic on Indigenous Peoples

UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Launches Study on COVID-19 Pandemic on Indigenous Peoples

UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Launches Study on COVID-19 Pandemic on Indigenous Peoples ...
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Implementation Conference Report Available at the CU Law Review

Implementation Conference Report Available at the CU Law Review

The Conference Report from the Project’s March 2019 gathering, is now available in the CU Law Review in February 2020 ...
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UN EXPERT MECHANISM ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RELEASES STATEMENT ON COVID-19

UN EXPERT MECHANISM ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RELEASES STATEMENT ON COVID-19

COVID-19 yet another challenge for indigenous peoples: Statement by the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) is ...
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UBC Hosts Seminar on Implementing the Right to Repatriation under the Declaration

UBC Hosts Seminar on Implementing the Right to Repatriation under the Declaration

The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), held a meeting at the First Nations House ...
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British Columbia becomes 1st Canadian province to pass UN Indigenous rights declaration

British Columbia becomes 1st Canadian province to pass UN Indigenous rights declaration

British Columbia has become the first jurisdiction in Canada to pass legislation implementing the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Peoples ...
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Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission holds hearings to assess the mistreatment of Navajo and Native American students using UN Declaration

Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission holds hearings to assess the mistreatment of Navajo and Native American students using UN Declaration

St. Michaels, Navajo Nation (ARIZ)–The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission (”Commission”) in partnership with Department of Diné Education and Diné ...
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Washington State Attorney General Ferguson Releases Tribal Consent Policy

Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a new policy that requires the Attorney General’s Office to obtain free, prior and ...
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Carpenter speaks at UN General Assembly Kickoff

Carpenter speaks at UN General Assembly Kickoff

Speaking on behalf of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), of which she serves ...
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