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Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Resources

Indigenous Peoples have fought for over 500 years against genocide, displacement, colonization and forced assimilation. Throughout they have succeeded in preserving their cultures and their identities as distinct Peoples. But the ongoing fight over land and power has left Indigenous communities among the poorest and most marginalized in the world, alienated from state politics and under- or un-represented by national governments. Today, Indigenous Peoples, who occupy some of the last pristine environments on Earth, are at the forefront of the struggle against corporate globalization and privatization of natural resources.

MADRE Articles

  • 11 Solutions to Halting the Environmental Crisis
  • Roadmap to a Sustainable Future: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Stand for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Backgrounder on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Indigenous Women: Fighting for Rights, Creating Change
  • Violence against Indigenous Women
  • Working to End Violence against Indigenous Women
  • MADRE Congratulates Bolivia's President-Elect Evo Morales
  • Celebrating Resistance: Indigenous Women and Sustainable Development
  • International Indigenous Women's Forum Declaration
  • Indigenous Women Beyond the Ten-Year Review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: A Resolution
  • Bringing Indigenous Perspectives to the International Arena: An Indigenous Women�s Conference
  • Advancing Women's Human Rights in the International Arena
  • Indigenous Women and Sustainable Development
  • Indigenous Peoples: A Backgrounder
  • Indigenous Women and International Law
  • International Human Rights Instruments Relevant to Indigenous Peoples

Additional Resources

  • The Autonomy Tale (Americas.org)
  • Last Harvest? Industrialization Plan Threatens Central America’s Indigenous (Americas.org)
  • Indigenous Women Forge Global Connections to Uproot Racism and Discrimination (Myrna Cunningham, Global Fund for Women)
  • Indigenous Children Face Greater Threats to Survival (UNICEF)
  • UN Guide for Indigenous Peoples
  • First Indigenous Women Summit of the Americas
  • Globalization Effects on Indigenous Peoples (International Forum on Globalization Indigenous Peoples Project)