SAMI SELF-DETERMINATION AUTONOMY AND SELF-GOVERNMENT: EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND CULTURE
SAMI SELF-DETERMINATION. AUTONOMY AND ECONOMY – THE AUTHORITY AND AUTONOMY OF THE SÁMEDIGGI IN THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES SECTOR
Indigenous Children’s Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity? A Global View
The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Sámi children in Norway
Sami Self-Determination: Scope and Implementation
 
 
 
 
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

 
News records

26.04.2013 World Bank Urged to Include Human Rights in Safeguards Review
24.04.2013 Chilean Court Suspends Pascua Lama Mine
23.04.2013 World Bank to Strengthen Focus on Land Rights
16.04.2013 Our Land, Our Response
15.04.2013 Mining Investment Won’t Switch from Chile to Peru
03.04.2013 INDIGENOUS WOMEN UNITE TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT VIOLENCE
03.04.2013 Group Warns of “Natural Resources Giveaway” in Latin America
02.04.2013 PERU: Stepping Up Protection for Native Groups in Voluntary Isolation
28.03.2013 Ranchers Try to Drive Tsimané Indians Off Their Land
21.03.2013 Cameroonian Farmers Find Justice in Fair Fruit
15.03.2013 A “Golden Age” for Native Cinema
15.03.2013 Native Women Bring Solar Energy to Chile’s Atacama Desert
14.03.2013 U.S. Abstains on Controversial World Bank Mongolia Mine Project
08.03.2013 U.S. Finally Passes Stronger Protections for Women against Abuse
07.03.2013 Indigenous Community Takes Forest Law into Own Hands
06.03.2013 ‘Media Needs an Alliance With Minorities’
05.03.2013 India Undercuts Tribal Rights
04.03.2013 Building a Post-2015 Global Development Agenda
17.02.2013 Indigenous Youth Step up to Protect Their Roots
17.02.2013 Climate Rally Draws “Line in the Sand” on Canadian Pipeline
15.02.2013 Gas Giant Backtracks on Exploration in UNESCO World Heritage Site in Peru
15.02.2013 IACHR Concludes Its Working Visit to Suriname - Examines Rights of Indigenous Peoples
15.02.2013 Canadian Prime Minister´s Comments Ignore Victims’ Fear of Reprisal, Human Rights Watch
15.02.2013 Abusive Policing, Neglect Along ´Highway Of Tears´ in Canada
15.02.2013 Thawing Permafrost May Be “Huge Factor” in Global Warming
15.02.2013 Virtually at Sea in the Pacific
15.02.2013 Native Peoples Say: No Consultations, No Concessions
15.02.2013 In the Land of Gas, the Residents Have None
11.02.2013 Hydroelectric Project Threatens Chile’s Lake Neltume
07.02.2013 Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement “Inadequate”, Environmentalists
06.02.2013 The legacy of Elsa Laula Renberg
04.02.2013 Indigenous Papuan Leaders Demand Author Jared Diamond Apologizes for Derogatory Portrayal
02.02.2013 Local Tribes in Pakistan Turn Against Army
31.01.2013 UN Global Compact Exposure Draft of Guide For Business on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights - Call For Comments
31.01.2013 Game of Thrones Star Speaks out over Killing of Colombian Indigenous Leaders
29.01.2013 Latin America Flexes Muscles at Joint EU Summit
24.01.2013 Expanding Coal Exports Test Obama’s Inaugural Climate Pledges
24.01.2013 Chadian Soldiers Join Battle for Northern Mali
24.01.2013 Summit of the Peoples Demands Solidarity and Sovereignty
24.01.2013 Rainforest Riches A Curse for Civilians in Northeast DRC
22.01.2013 Chilean Government to Prioritize Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Peoples
17.01.2013 Showdown on Indigenous and Tribal Rights in India
16.01.2013 Kurdish Rights Back in Focus in Turkey
12.01.2013 Two Luthiers Emerge From Deep Bolivian Amazon
10.01.2013 Arctic Frontier Side Event
10.01.2013 Chilean Archaeologists and Environmentalists Fight Dakar Rally
09.01.2013 Canadian Authorities Must Start Meaningful Dialogue with Aboriginal Leaders; UN Expert
08.01.2013 Historic Mapuche Land Conflict Flares Up in Chile
05.01.2013 Indigenous and Human Rights Groups Jointly Supporting Chief Spence and "Idle No More"
04.01.2013 Guyana Hits Paydirt on Low Carbon Development Path
04.01.2013 Bioshields Best Defence Against Disasters
04.01.2013 Q&A: Fighting to Save Africa’s Richest Rainforest
04.01.2013 Amazon Regional Alliance to Confront the Climate Emergency
04.01.2013 Africa Cashes in on Mineral Wealth
04.01.2013 Colombian Landowners, Peasants Listen to Each Other
04.01.2013 Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of Democracy
02.01.2013 Power in Bolivia’s Gas-Rich Chaco Region Thrust into Indigenous Hands
02.01.2013 Indigenous Chileans Still Fighting Pinochet-Era Highway Project
24.12.2012 Bedouin Seek Democracy in Israel
21.12.2012 Rising Ethnic Tensions Threaten New Violence in Mali
19.12.2012 Bolivia’s Ayoreo Indians, Devoured by the City
19.12.2012 Big Landowners Block Rural Development Law in Guatemala
18.12.2012 Amazon Rainforest under Pressure
18.12.2012 Where Reindeer Decline, Indigenous Peoples Falter
18.12.2012 Masked Gunmen Raided Siberian Evenk Indigenous Organization
18.12.2012 Land Rights Are Only Half the Battle for Indigenous People in Latin America
14.12.2012 Bolivia’s Tapiete People – an Indigenous Culture in the Hands of 38 Families
14.12.2012 Indigenous San Beaten and Buried Alive for Subsistence Hunting in Botswana
12.12.2012 Indigenous Communities in Peru Take Charge of Environmental Monitoring
12.12.2012 Off the Blacklist Doesn’t Imply Improvement in Human Rights in Colombia
11.12.2012 UN Global Compact Releases Draft Guide for Business on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
09.12.2012 Reforms Could Weaken Pan-American Human Rights Body
09.12.2012 A Hotter World Is a Hungry World
09.12.2012 Reaching Bolivia’s Indigenous People on the Airwaves
03.12.2012 Christmas crisis for Canada’s iconic reindeer herd
01.12.2012 Mining Saps a Thirsty Desert in Mongolia
01.12.2012 Indigenous Mapuche Fight New Airport in Southern Chile
30.11.2012 Settlement Begins in U.S. Mismanagement of Native Funds
29.11.2012 Indigenous Zemba, Himba Demonstrate over Exclusion in Namibia
29.11.2012 Using the Airwaves for Empowerment of Quechua Women in Bolivia
27.11.2012 Guyana Seeks to Shield Gold Miners from Mercury Ban
27.11.2012 Young Women Face Double Whammy in Pacific Islands
27.11.2012 Building More Democratic Families in Argentina
23.11.2012 Chilean Court Rejects Indigenous Claims to Consultation on Geothermal Projects
22.11.2012 Saami Council Prepares UN Human Rights Complaints for Hannans over Proposed Open-Pit Mining Plans in Sweden
21.11.2012 Civil Society steps up advocacy campaigns to enlightens indigenous Turkana people on rights to land and natural resources
20.11.2012 Planet on Path to Four C Warming, World Bank Warns
18.11.2012 Hunger Strike Is Over, but Kurdish Unrest Is Not
18.11.2012 World Bank Launches Review of Social, Environmental Safeguards
16.11.2012 Soy and Sugar Cane Fuel Native Land Conflicts in Brazil
14.11.2012 Getting an Education – a Heroic Feat for Indigenous Children in Bolivia
12.11.2012 Putin Orders Closure of Indigenous Peoples´ Organization RAIPON
11.11.2012 Indigenous Protestors Against Guatemala Energy Company Targeted
10.11.2012 People’s Tribunal Defends Indigenous Villages from Dams
09.11.2012 New Era Augurs More of the Same for Impoverished Maya People
06.11.2012 Rights Campaign Group Welcomes First U.N. Statement on Tibet
06.11.2012 New Media Law, New Indigenous Voices in Argentina
02.11.2012 Indigenous Ogiek Community Seeks Profits From Forests
02.11.2012 Foreign Farmers Undermine Food Security in Zambia
02.11.2012 Q&A: “Smallholder Agriculture Needs to Be Seen as a Business”