CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS

Please Support IITC in 2009 (PDF 192K)

Over 3500 peoples attended the Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving sunrise gathering on Alcatraz Island November 26th 2009, sponsored by IITC and AICA. For more photos by Francisco De Costa click here

Photos, UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Housing visit to Pine Ridge Reservation November 1, 2009 (for more photos)

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Our Mission

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands

Objectives

❖      To seek, promote and build participation of Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations (UN) and its specialized agencies, as well as other international forums.

❖      To seek international recognition for Treaties and Agreements between Indigenous Peoples and Nation-States.

❖      To support the human rights, self-determination and sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples; to oppose colonialism in all its forms, and its effects upon Indigenous Peoples.

❖      To build solidarity and relationships of mutual support among Indigenous Peoples of the world.

❖      To disseminated information about Indigenous Peoples’ human rights issues, struggles,     concerns and perspectives.

❖      To establish and maintain one or more organizational offices to carry out IITC’s information dissemination, networking and human rights programs.