CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS

Please Support IITC in 2009 (PDF 192K)

Participants in the INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SYMPOSIUM, Alamo, California,
June 30 - July 1st 2010, hosted by IITC included representatives from the US, Canada, Alaska, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Canada, Caribbean, Mexico and Guatemala.
 

IITC co-hosted panel presentation “ Collaboration and Coordination to advance Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights at the UN” at the 3^rd session of the EMRIP, July 15^th 2010, Geneva.  Panelists L to R:  Antti Korkeakivi , Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights; Jannie Lasimbang, UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Carlos Mamani, Chair,  Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people; Chief Wilton Littlechild,  Treaty 6 International Chief and Andrea Carmen, moderator, IITC Executive Director

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.