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

31.10.2012 Tribal Wars Threaten South Sudan Again
30.10.2012 Palau Proves Sharks Worth More Alive Than Dead
29.10.2012 Zero Hunger Plan in Guatemala Still Grounded
29.10.2012 Symbol of Indigenous Culture to Be Bulldozed for World Cup
26.10.2012 Q&A: ‘Baloch Tribal Groups to Unite Against Pakistan’
26.10.2012 The Arctic Declaration approved on the UN day
23.10.2012 Recognising Indigenous “Sacred Areas” Could Double Amount of Protected Land Worldwide
23.10.2012 Long Way to Go to Fully Realize Indigenous Rights, UN Third Committee Told
23.10.2012 Injured Struggle in the Sahara
17.10.2012 UK Snubs Indigenous Peoples´ Rights by Refusing to Ratify ILO Convention No. 169
17.10.2012 Communal Land Titling at a Standstill in Peru
17.10.2012 Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
17.10.2012 Tribal War Simmers in Libya’s Desert
17.10.2012 Garifuna Women, Custodians of Culture and the Environment in Honduras
17.10.2012 Guatemala under Pressure to Investigate Shooting of Indigenous Protesters
16.10.2012 Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on Biodiversity
08.10.2012 Exposed to racist violence
04.10.2012 Former Sex Slaves Testify against Guatemalan Army
29.09.2012 UN Expert Calls for Greater Inclusion of Namibian Indigenous Peoples in Decision-Making
28.09.2012 Major Extractives Firms No Longer Ignoring Community Consent
27.09.2012 Starving for an Equitable Food System
27.09.2012 Namibian Indigenous Leaders Met UN Special Rapporteur
25.09.2012 Pope Benedict Urges Protection of Colombia´s Indigenous Peoples
25.09.2012 Anuak Indigenous People Complaint against Ethiopian Government and World Bank
25.09.2012 Norway and Canada Call in WTO on EU Seal Products Ban
25.09.2012 Countries Must Sustain Their Forests – UN Official
25.09.2012 Alaskan Inupiat Village Loses Novel Suit against Oil Giants
24.09.2012 Rural Mexican Communities Rich in Resources, Poor in Capital
21.09.2012 Human Rights Education Shows Its Potential - Documentary
21.09.2012 Mexican Indigenous Language Will Live on Film when Last Two Speakers Die
21.09.2012 Ice-Free Arctic Is “Uncharted Territory”
21.09.2012 India Coaxes Tribal Girls Into Schools
21.09.2012 UN Report Chastises U.S. for Status of Native Americans
21.09.2012 Indigenous Groups in Southern Africa Have Oldest Roots of All People, Largest Study Reveals
20.09.2012 Violence against Women, Property Rights Most Pressing Indigenous Issues – UN Special Rapporteur
20.09.2012 UN Special Rapporteur for Indigenous People´s Rights Visits Namibia
14.09.2012 Ecotourism Helps Amazon Jungle Communities Survive
14.09.2012 Kenya’s Water Wars Kill Scores
07.09.2012 Indigenous Consultations in Peru to Debut in Amazon Oil Region
29.08.2012 Indigenous Yanomami Massacred by Goldminers in Venezuela
29.08.2012 UN Experts Concerned about Australian NT Intervention
29.08.2012 Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Overturns Suspension of Belo Monte Dam
28.08.2012 Norway Counts the Usefulness of Lending
27.08.2012 Prominent Environmentalists Protest Shell’s Arctic Oil-Drilling Plans
27.08.2012 Human Rights Defenders Alarmed at Release of Nun Dorothy Stang’s Murderer
24.08.2012 Raimo Valle had to go
24.08.2012 Racism. It Stops with Me – National Anti-Racism Strategy in Australia Launched
24.08.2012 Canadian Health Minister Aglukkaq Named as Head of Arctic Council
23.08.2012 UN Expert Calls for Consultations with Indigenous Peoples over Private Land Sale in Black Hills, South Dakota
22.08.2012 Hydropower Dam to Flood Sacred Amazon Indigenous Site
21.08.2012 Mining Must Respect Indigenous Peoples´ Rights; UN Official
20.08.2012 Cambodia’s Hydro Plans Carry Steep Costs
20.08.2012 Indigenous Maori and Pacific Minorities Don´t Get Fair Go, Says NZ Watchdog
20.08.2012 First Nations Call on Canadian Gvt to Establish Independent Investigation of Missing Women
18.08.2012 Colombian President Meets with Indigenous Nasa
16.08.2012 Indigenous Peoples Take on Threadbare Stereotypes
16.08.2012 “We Are All Indigenous to Mother Earth, But We Have Forgotten”
16.08.2012 Belo Monte Dam Can No Longer Ignore Indigenous Communities
16.08.2012 Brazilian Appeals Court Suspends Belo Monte Dam
08.08.2012 ILO Director-General´s message for International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
07.08.2012 Native Peoples Take on Threadbare Stereotypes
03.08.2012 Bolivia’s Indigenous Women Seek the Political Kingdom
02.08.2012 Where Are Canada’s Missing Native Women?
26.07.2012 Climate Change and Poverty, a Deadly Cocktail for Dominicans
24.07.2012 When the Rains Don’t Fall
20.07.2012 Women Rights Defenders Targeted in Mexico
11.07.2012 Family Planning Summit Offers New Hope
03.07.2012 Water and Slums Bright Spots in MDGs
02.07.2012 Going It Alone After the Rio Circus
26.06.2012 Outrage as Maasai Morans kill stray lions in retaliation attack
25.06.2012 Biofuels and Hunger, Two Sides of the Same Coin
22.06.2012 Community Radio in Congo Promotes Bantu-Pygmy Understanding
21.06.2012 Dalai Lama in UK as Self-immolations Amongst Tibetan Nomads Rise
20.06.2012 RIO+20: Reforestation Pledges Reach Only 12 Percent of Target
20.06.2012 Poverty Rates Strikingly High Among Indigenous Peoples
19.06.2012 Tension over Deadly Clash Between Peasants and Police in Paraguay
19.06.2012 RIO+20: Ignoring Science, Negotiations Become Political Battle
15.06.2012 Maasai Conservationist Among six Winners of UNEP’s Earth Awards
15.06.2012 Battle for Human Rights in Rio Is “Far From Over”
14.06.2012 Indigenous Message to Rio+20: Leave Everything Beneath Mother Earth
12.06.2012 "Today´s Food System Is Failing Small Farmers"
12.06.2012 Tension Around Possible Islamic State in Northern Mali
11.06.2012 Yearly Floods the New Reality for Rural Women
11.06.2012 Ethics for an ‘Ecological Civilisation’
10.06.2012 Farmers Use Traditional Knowledge to Deal with Climate Change
08.06.2012 Youth Reaffirm Indigenous Identity
08.06.2012 Indigenous Awá Demand Action as Brazilian Logging Season Starts
07.06.2012 Earth Summit Negotiated the Size of the Zero
07.06.2012 Samoan Breadfruit Makes a Splash in the Caribbean
06.06.2012 Activists Call for Creation of High Commissioner for Future Generations at Rio+20
05.06.2012 Politics Heats Up Around Arctic Thaw
05.06.2012 Midwives Play Key Social Role in Guatemala
05.06.2012 Elders in Peruvian Andes Help Interpret Climate Changes
05.06.2012 Brazilian Indigenous Community Seeks Survival Through Carbon Credits
31.05.2012 Native Canadians See Way of Life Under Assault
31.05.2012 India’s Economic Growth Leaves Human Development in the Dust
31.05.2012 Indonesia Is Wilting
30.05.2012 Guatemalan Communities Have No Say in Exploitation of Resources
30.05.2012 Native People of El Salvador Finally Gain Recognition
29.05.2012 Pastoralist and hunter gatherers seek recognition and protection in the new constitution