O'odham Ofelia Rivas -- Over 35 Years of Human Rights Work on O'odham Land

Ofelia Rivas In Jamaica 

Photo by Brenda Norrell 

Ofelia Rivas is the founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall and delivering food to O'odham on the south side of the border during the pandemic.

O'odham Voice Against the Wall
By Censored News
French translation by Christine Prat
French

In May 2002, Ofelia Rivas raised her own funds to attend the first and four consecutive forums of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues in New York City, New York to document and present human rights violations in O'odham communities along the United States/Mexico border.