Tag: UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

• Wednesday, May 25th 2016 - 08:59 UTC

  UN human rights expert calls on Argentina to urgently protect indigenous peoples

  

  The United Nations human rights expert on racism urged Argentina to take urgent measures to sustainably address the invisibility, marginalization and systematic exclusion of indigenous peoples in the country. The UN assessed during a week in Argentina, the situation of indigenous peoples, peoples of African descent, migrants from the region and beyond, and other groups.

• Wednesday, September 24th 2014 - 06:32 UTC

  Morales opens indigenous peoples conference in New York blasting capitalism

  

  Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, inaugurated the first World Conference on Indigenous Peoples at the UN on Monday and said he is living proof that the community can “govern and not just vote.”