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State Department’s human rights report falls short (Indian Country Today)

WASHINGTON – A State Department report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the U.S. human rights record is a positive step in the country’s efforts to meet its obligations under international law and treaties, but more work needs to be done to resolve...

11 October, 2010

Indigenous land return ‘ends shame’ (Sydney Morning Herald)

Petrina Berry AAP Queensland will return thousands of hectares of national park on Cape York Peninsula to its indigenous owners. Premier Anna Bligh on Wednesday told parliament more than 75,000 hectares of national park, known as Archer Bend, would be revoked and returned to the...

06 October, 2010

Breakthrough in treaty process predicted (Globe and Mail)

With the groundbreaking Nisga’a agreement under attack in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and with more than 100 bands in the province still making little progress in treaty negotiations, Sophie Pierre admits to feeling frustrated at times. But Ms. Pierre, chief commissioner of the B.C....

05 October, 2010