UN NEWS—As the world celebrates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Wednesday, the theme of "Indigenous youth as agents of change for self-determination” is taking centre stage at the United Nations. As many young Indigenous People are engaging in climate action, human rights and cultural
Pope Francis will visit Canada on what he has called a "pilgrimage of penance" to apologize for the mistreatment of indigenous children in residential schools, which were mostly run by Catholics. He is expected to land in Edmonton, in the western province of Alberta, at 11:20
UN NEWS—Indigenous women and girls face grave, systematic, and continuous acts of violence that permeate every aspect of their lives, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said on Wednesday in a hard hitting report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva “This violence is rooted in historic and unequal
