Important Updates
Noticias al Dia:
City of Berkeley California
resolution endorsing the UN Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, May 19th 2009 (PDF
436K)
Registration form and agenda for IITC
Human Rights Training June 25 - 26, Chickasaw
Nation, Norman Oklahoma (PDF 94K)
Taller de Capacitación sobre Derechos
Humanos de CITI, 29-30 de julio, Ocotepec Cuernavaca
México /IITC Human Rights Training workshop July 29
- 30, Ocotepec, Cuernavaca México (PDF 88K)
Tribes Applaud Permanent Mount Taylor Traditional
Cultural Property Designation” press release June 5,
2009
Stockholm Convention COP 4, Geneva, Switzerland May
4 – 8, 2009- Indigenous Caucus Statement for the
High Level Segment
IITC Human rights training, Chickasaw
Nation River Wind Hotel, Norman Oklahoma, June 25th
– 26th 2009 (PDF 118K)
Report of the North America Region
Preparatory Meeting for the United Nations Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues Eighth Session (UNPFII8)
March 13th and 14th, 2009 Window Rock, Arizona (PDF
244K)
The Manila Declaration of the
International Conference on Extractive Industries
and Indigenous Peoples, 23-25 March 2009,
Philippines (PDF 47K)
Cultural Indicators of Indigenous
Peoples' food and agro-ecological systems” submitted
as a joint CRP for UNPFII8 by UNFAO and IITC (PDF
181K)
OHCHR Study on climate change and human rights
available
Joint intervention on the Right to
Food, International Organization of Indigenous
Resource Development and the International Indian
Treaty Council, UN Human Rights Council Advisory
Committee, January 29, 2009
Carrie Dann and Manny Pino Honored by
IITC for their work to Protect Sacred Sites, March
7th 2009 (PDF 144K)
United Nations Permanent Forum 8th
session, May 18th - May 29th , 2009
IITC Human Rights Training in Xela
Guatemala March 26-27, 2009, invitation and agenda /Capacitacion
sobre derechos humanos en Xela Guatemala, invitacion
y agenda, 26 - 27 de marzo de 2009 (PDF 252K)
Treaty 6 Chiefs pass resolution
supporting ban on Lindane January 23rd 2009 (PDF
108K)
Indigenous Peoplesʼ Struggles to
Defend Sacred Places: IITC Symposium and Human
Rights Training- Saturday, March 7, 2009, San
Francisco State University with Carrie Danny, Manny
Pino and others (PDF 271K)
New: Indigenous Peoples and the Right
to Free Prior Informed Consent”, new IITC
educational factsheet (PDF 115K)
Nuevo: Los Pueblos
Indigenas y el Derecho al Consentamiento Libre, Previa e
Informada”, nueva hoja informative de CITI (PDF 111K)
Website and registration information
now available: Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on
Climate Change, April 20 - 24, 2009, Anchorage
Alaska (PDF 248K)
IITC Submission to the OHCHR for
Study on Human Rights and Climate Change- December
26th, 2008 (PDF 272K)
IITC requests your support at
year-end 2008 (PDF 55K)
Human Rights Day December 10th 2008
New IITC
San Francisco Office address
UN Human Rights Council Expert Mechanism on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples 1st session October 1 –
3, 2008
NEW Indigenous Portal for up to the minute news on
Indigenous Peoples’ work at the UN and around the
world
March 7th, 2008: UN CERD Expresses
Concerns about Racism in the United States, Calls
for the US to apply the UN Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples (PDF 29K)
IITC and Joint Indigenous Peoples’
Submissions on Canada and Mexico, September 2008,
UPR February 2009
Human
Rights Training Materials
New: Updated IITC fact
sheet: Pesticides, Tribal Health and Human Rights, North and South
(PDF 111K)
Nuevo: Hoja informativa
actualizada de CITI: “LOS PLAGUICIDAS, LA SALUD DE LAS TRIBUS Y LOS
DERECHOS HUMANOS EN EL NORTE Y EL SUR” (PDF 111K)
IITC Human
Rights Training and Capacity Building Program, 2008
34th Annual Treaty Conference,
Chimaltenango Guatemala June 19 – 22, 2008,
Conference Resolutions/Resoluciones de la
Conferencia
UNPFII 7th
Session, April 21st - May 2nd 2008, Interventions
and Statements
2008
International Indian Treaty Conference, Guatemala,
June 2008 19-22
NEW! IITC Power point: “Indigenous
Peoples’ Advocacy for a Rights and Culturally-based
Approach to Food Security”, April 3, 2008
(9.4 MB PowerPoint Presentation)
The UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and the Right to Free,
Prior and Informed Consent: The Framework For a New
Mechanism for Reparations, Restitution and Redress,
submitted by the IITC to the UN Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues Seventh Session (UNPFII7) (PDF
80K)
Report of the North America
Preparatory meeting for UNPFII7, Vancouver Canada,
February 22nd and 23rd 2008 (PDF 168K)
Hawaiian Land Rights decision by
Hawaiian Supreme Court, Nation of Hawaii calls upon
Legislature to "Cease and Desist", February 8, 2008
Indigenous Shadow Report to UN CERD
highlights Racism by United States, February 5th
2008
Peoples’ Shadow Report to the CERD on
the United States submitted by IITC January 2008
(PDF 400 KB)
New IITC Brochure
UN Declaration for the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples adopted by the UN General
Assembly September 13th, 2007!
UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples as adopted by the UN General
Assembly September 13th 2007 (PDF 56k)
Declaracion de las Naciones Unidas
sobre los derechos de los Pueblos Indigenas,
adoptada por la Asemblea General el 13 de septiembre
de 2007 (PDF 60K)
IITC Statement on the
Adoption of the Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, September 16th 2007
(PDF 200K)
US
Statement against the adoption of the Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, September 13th
2007 (PDF 53K)
Link for the
COMMITTEE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
IITC Submission to the UN High
Commissioner on Human Rights for her study on the
Human Right to Water, April 15th, 2007 (PDF 136k)
Pesticides are Poison” booklet now
available online
Los Plaguicidas son Venenos” manual
ahora disponible en internet
UN Web page, Indigenous Peoples and
Treaties, the UN Treaty Study Expert Seminars
