The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, observed on Aug. 9, calls us to commemorate, celebrate, and uphold the rights of indigenous people worldwide, particularly their right to ...

17 April 2025 - Later this month, the 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) kicks off at UN Headquarters in New York, bringing together Indigenous Peoples, ...

Observers say Daria Egereva’s case highlights the risks Native advocates face when they challenge the powerful.

A smoke screen fortified by the U.S. government and judiciary system has blinded society. This illusion promotes the supposed idea that because of recent progress in securing rights, job equity and ...

On a May morning in 2023, more than 200 Indigenous, local community, and Afro-descendant women from 20 countries on four continents bustled into a hotel meeting space in Brazzaville, the capital of ...

The women had come from across the world, convening at the United Nations Plaza to share the struggles they’d faced reclaiming ancestral lands, fighting pollution from extractive industries and ...

The Samburu Women Trust and the Indigenous Women Council last week celebrated 10 years of advancing women and girl’s rights among indigenous communities. The celebrations were in hour of the network’s ...

Guest Opinion. Eleven years before the Declaration of Independence, when Cherokee peace chief Attakullakulla met with British diplomats, his first question was, “Where are your women?” Because they ...