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Kiribati and the Marshall Islands have detailed the human cost of nuclear testing in the Pacific, urging the United Nations to address the historic wrongs amid renewed calls for greater justice and ac...
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution to enforce the legal obligations on its member states to combat climate change, marking a diplomatic victory for Pacific islands in their fi...
The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recently took the significant step of issuing Technical Advice to Canada regarding implementation of the United Nations Declarat...
The United Nations' finding that the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the criminal justice system "reflects systemic and structural racial discrimination" is another sign the Prime Ministe...
Stolen Generations survivors continue to be disadvantaged when the rights of Indigenous peoples are not embedded in law across the country, advocates say.
The Our Children Our Way Secretariat, British Columbia's Indigenous Child and Family Services peak body, has taken its call for justice to the world stage.
The Indonesian military has been accused of attacking a refugee camp in West Papua territory, reportedly killing at least nine people including a toddler and a pregnant woman.
Canadian Indigenous leaders have urged legislators in British Columbia to vote down a bill which would suspended parts of the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
Samoa has taken its village-based approach to justice for women and girls to the global stage, outlining how community leadership, national legislation and local investment are shaping support systems...
The Pacific islands of Vanuatu are standing up to the US government over a United Nations global warming resolution, demanding the world's major polluters pay reparations for failing to stem climate c...
The United Nations Secretary-General has warned the enduring legacy of colonialism — marked by entrenched economic exploitation, racism, inequality and exclusion from decision-making — con...
Jahna Cedar OAM, a proud Nyiyaparli woman from Western Australia's Pilbara region, has been selected to join the Australian delegation to the 70th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Statu...
A United Nations review of Australia's human rights compliance has heavily criticised Northern Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre (Ashley), the facility labelled an especially serious example of...
