U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues' Final Priorities -- Climate Change, Women's Rights, and Repressions, 2026

U.N.  Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues' Final Priorities -- Climate Change, Women's Rights, and Repressions, 2026

Indigenous youths delivered powerful testimony during the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York during the two-week session which concluded Friday. Courtesy photo.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 1, 2026

NEW YORK -- The priorities of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues included climate change, forced sterilization, repressions and the rights of refugees, as Indigenous Peoples concluded the two-week session on Friday in New York. 

The dialogue on climate change was the first priority in the draft final statement. It recognizes positive efforts led by Australia, First Nations in Canada, and Brazil. The next priority is the recognition of the right of the Arab Emirates just transition work program. The just transition involving minerals and 'green transition' follows as the priority

Lakota Youths Locked Down to Drilling Equipment at Pe'Sla

Lakota Youths Locked Down to Drilling Equipment at Pe'Sla. The Occupation by Oceti Sakowin Continues on Saturday with Drilling Shut Down at Two Sites.

Law enforcement and the Forest Service issued a warning statement on Saturday, which the protectors said they do not recognize or honor.

Drilling is Shut Down Now: Two Drilling Sites are Shut Down and All Workers Were Sent Home on Thursday. Lakota Youths Protecting Their Water Demand that all Drilling be Halted Until this is Heard in Court on Monday.

By NDN Collective, April 30, Updated May 1, 2026

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Photos by Angel White Eyes

Lakota youth have locked down onto the drilling equipment at Pe’ Sla. An alter has been set up and community members have offered prayers. The drilling company said that law enforcement is on the way.

Mohawk Nation News 'Moccasin Makers and War Breakers'

 

MOCCASIN MAKERS & WAR BREAKERS:

Posted on April 27, 2026 by Kan1enkehaka

A  CALL TO ACTION BY THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD

MOHAWK NATION NEWS: April 27, 2026. 

WE HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE WAR!

‘BEFORE THE MEN CAN GO TO WAR, THE WOMEN MUST MAKE THEIR MOCCASINS.”

In the tradition of our ancestors, it was customary for the women to make the moccasins worn by the men who were going to war. If the women did not want war, they did not make the moccasins. Our ancestors belonged to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Europeans called us Iroquois.

Indigenous Peoples' Scissor-Sharp Words Slice Through Failures at the United Nations

 Indigenous Peoples' Scissor-Sharp Words Slice Through Failures at the United Nations 2026

Indigenous representatives from Mexico, Hawai'i, New Zealand, and Vietnam deliver the fire of their words, in defense of their people, at the U.N. Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues in New York. Images by Censored News

The Smokescreens are Exposed, as Indigenous Peoples Call out the Systematic Racism and Violence, and the Terrorism of Extractive  Industries

By Brenda Norrell, (c)Censored News, April 24, 2026

NEW YORK -- Cristina Bautista was murdered after she testified at the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. A young Native Hawaiian family ran for their lives from the fires in Hawai'i as their ancestral homeland burned to the ground. In the MeKong Delta of Vietnam, Buddhist Monks and women rights defenders are imprisoned, and the government of New Zealand is imprisoning Maori women and stealing the future of Maaori children.