It was 2017 and Eva Marie Carney was fed up. As an elected legislator for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation she was somewhat familiar with the reproductive healthcare gap within Indigenous communities, ...

17 April 2025 - Later this month, the 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) kicks off at UN Headquarters in New York, bringing together Indigenous Peoples, ...

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, observed on Aug. 9, calls us to commemorate, celebrate, and uphold the rights of indigenous people worldwide, particularly their right to ...

The National Family and Survivors Circle Inc. (NFSC Inc.) is deeply concerned that the 2025 federal budget fails to deliver the urgent, targeted action needed to protect the human security and ...

On a May morning in 2023, more than 200 Indigenous, local community, and Afro-descendant women from 20 countries on four continents bustled into a hotel meeting space in Brazzaville, the capital of ...

The women had come from across the world, convening at the United Nations Plaza to share the struggles they’d faced reclaiming ancestral lands, fighting pollution from extractive industries and ...

The Samburu Women Trust and the Indigenous Women Council last week celebrated 10 years of advancing women and girl’s rights among indigenous communities. The celebrations were in hour of the network’s ...

A few years ago, Maria Suryanti Jun had idea little idea of what an environmental defender was. Nor did she have any intention of becoming one. But since December 2022, when a geothermal project was ...

The implementation of the energy transition is unfolding at the expense of biodiversity and communities — particularly Indigenous women, says Galina Angarova and Daniela De León, members of the SIRGE ...

Two things are true about Indigenous girls, women, and gender-diverse people in Canada. First, as Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson notes, they “reproduce and amplify” ...

Jocelyn Frye is the president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and her ...

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged all political parties to include clear commitments in their election manifestos to ensure women’s equal rights in family inheritance, land ownership, ...