June, 2006
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Human Rights Council Adopts Rights of Indigenous Peoples
29 June 2006 UN Press release. Extends Mandate of Working Group on Drafting Optional Protocol to International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted by consensus the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and recommended that the General Assembly adopt the treaty. The [...]
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Last witness testifies at Ipperwash inquiry
Canadian Press, FOREST, Ont. -- After two years and some 140 witnesses, testimony at an often confrontational and controversial inquiry into the 1995 shooting death of Dudley George at Ipperwash Provincial Park came to an end Wednesday. And while closing arguments are still two months away and final recommendations not expected before the end of [...]
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UN HRC: statement by Indian Council of South America
The Indian Council of South America to the new UN Human Rights Council hopes that the change serves to better defend those rights as well as social and historic justice for all peoples. That is what CISA hopes, because attempts are being made to invalidate the process launched by the representatives of the invaded peoples [...]
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Bear Butte: Summit of Nations, Aug 1-4
Protect - Preserve - Defend Mato Paha Gathering of Nations Opening Ceremonies July 4, 2006 at Bear Butte 28 June 2006 Greetings Mitakuyepi: (my relations) Today the "Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council", "Owe Aku", and the "Intertribal Coalition to Defend Bear Butte" moves to Mato Paha, our Sacred Mountain. We begin preparations for the [...]
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Film images of violence too much for peace gathering
Graphic content of tale about migrant women 'all too real' for many in the audience By Eva Salinas; Vancouver - It was an image that hit too close to home. It began with a beautiful, bright-eyed young Mexican woman being verbally abused and sexually assaulted by a man with whom she was driving across the [...]
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Pope asked to revoke papal bulls
NEW YORK - There is no ambiguity in the language of the 15th-century papal bulls issued by the popes of the Roman Catholic Church as they encouraged the kings of Portugal and Spain to conquer ''undiscovered'' lands, enslave their non-Christian populations and expropriate their possession and resources. Now, more than 500 years later, the U.N. [...]
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Canada wants delay to key aboriginal UN treaty
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Monday it wanted the United Nations to delay a vote on a key draft treaty enshrining the rights of indigenous peoples, a document which has already taken 20 years to put together. Political opponents accused Canada's Conservative government of trying to sabotage the treaty, which is supposed to be [...]
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