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October 13, 2025, is when Americans will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. That day is also Columbus Day. Columbus was ...
The declaration – together with bold voluntary commitments by States and other entities – constitutes the Nice Ocean Action Plan, successfully concluding the five-day Conference with a boost to ...
The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
First Nations have just as much interest in seeing major development projects that benefit our communities go ahead as ...
Matias, whose Indigenous Nations are Taino and Kichwa, said a more suitable day to honor Native people would be the "summer solstice, which is a powerful day for Indigenous people all over the world.
Declaration Released at United Nations Oceans Conference Plastics Treaty Negotiations Continue August 5-14 Nice, France – On ...
Ottawa and some provinces are surprising “Indigenous partners” with plans to change laws on approvals for resource projects.
We spend the day on the river ... As Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, states in her report “Cornered by Protected Areas ...
We should celebrate every day, as the Native people have brought a lot to the United States,” In 2019, then-Gov. Ralph Northam proclaimed the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day.
Nice, France, 9 June 2025 – The 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of France and Costa Rica, opened today in Nice with strong calls to accelerate action and mobilize ...
Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Leo do the same?
In his campaign for Mexico’s Supreme Court, Hugo Aguilar sent a simple message: He would be the one to finally give ...