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Opponents of the Voice say it will change how the country is run. Megan Davis says that’s the point.

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. NEW YORK — The San Carlos Apache Tribe has taken its legal battle against the U.S. government to the United Nations to save its traditional territory in Arizona from […]

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues meets once a year to understand Indigenous peoples. Still, some take the conversation further and discuss what they see as the beginnings of genocide.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) Dr Samson Viulu is representing the Solomon Islands Government at the twenty second session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) as head of delegation ...

The impact of forestry on indigenous peoples has been discussed at a UN meeting after slash was strewn across Tai Rāwhiti's land and beaches during Cyclone Gabrielle.

UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues also demanded inclusion in preserving culture & languages

Oak flat is one of the largest copper sources in North America. It's also the San Carlos Apache Tribe's most sacred site.

At the U.N., leaders describe the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites as a ‘major human rights violation.’

Opponents of a proposed copper mine that would wipe out a site considered sacred by Arizona tribes prayed and protested in front of the White House.

“I constantly receive information that Indigenous Peoples fear a new wave of green investments."