The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is an advisory body to the Economic and Social Council, with a mandate to discuss indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights.
The Report of the Fifth Session has been released. It is available in all languages on the Fifth Session page.
Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by Human Rights Council
June 29, 2006
The Human Rights Council, on Thursday adopted the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by a favour of 30 votes in favour and 2 against and 12 abstensions, while 3 countries were absent during the vote.
California attempting
to stop Longest Walk
Northern Route By Brenda
Norrell, Posted on Fri
Feb 15th, 2008 at
03:13:38 PM EST Longest
Walk runners risk arrests
today to continue
SHINGLE SPRINGS, Calif.
– The Longest Walk
2 Northern Route is co...
Australia to apologise
for past treatment of
Aborigines
Haroon Siddique
and agenciesMonday
January 28,
2008Guardian Unlimited
Aboriginal children in
Kakadu National P...
Dear Friend, > >
> > I thought you
might be interested in
this HSUS > campaign
to stop > >
Amazon.com's sales of
illegal animal fighting
> materials. Amazon
> > sells both
cockfighting magazines
and bloody, > graph...
Clinical evidence
for rapid transmission of
Lyme disease following a
tick bite. Lyme disease
transmission...is thought
to require at least 36-48
h of tick attachment. We
describe 3 cases in which
transmission of Borrelia
burgdorferi, ..appears
t...
Letter from the Publisher
(October 2011) Townsend
Letter for Doctors &
Patients
www.townsendletter.comLet
ter from the Publisher:
FDA Guidance Statement
Threatens Supplement
Industry by Jonathan
Collin, MD **Townsend
Letter for Doctors &
Pati...
A dramatic tale of
microbes, medicine, and
money. This eye-opening
film investigates the
untold story of Lyme
disase, am emerging
epidemic larger thatn
HIV. Each year thousands
go undiagnosed or
misdignosed, told that
their symptoms are "AIYH"
or All...
Delegate Comstock
Resolution Designating
May as “Lyme
Disease Awareness
Month” in Virginia
Passes
Richmond, VA –
Delegate Barbara
Comstock’s House
Joint Resolution 643,
permanently designating
May of 2011, and all
succee...
GOVERNOR’S LYME
DISEASE TASK FORCE
TO CONDUCT SECOND
HEARING
Richmond, VA-
Friday January 7,
2011. Virginia
Governor Bob
McDonnell’s
appointed Lyme Disease
Task Force will c...
Message: Petition For Kiera Wilmot to Return to her High School in Florida by Jude H.
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discussions
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— This young student tried
a science experiment
that, a shock to all
including Kiera, "blew
up". This took place
recently in Polk County,
Florida at Bartow High
School. Noone harmed,
ingredients: aluminum
foil and toilet cleaner
in a plastic bottle. It
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Message: The Good and the Bad... by Sandi O.
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— Hi Guys,(everyone is
Guy's by the way) it's a
term I use for Women and
Men...I like that I can
log in here each day and
feel like I'm doing a
little goodby signing
petitions and click to
donate...But there are
somedays like today when
I see picture's ... more