U.N. Permanent Forum Concludes: Women's Rights and Destructive Mining among Priorities 2025

Resounding Indigenous Women's Voices

The U.N. Permanent Forum: The Sterilization of Native American Women and Destructive Mining are Priorities in Final Report

A representative of Indigenous in Morocco said the world must hold the Moroccan government responsible for not restoring and rebuilding the schools and communities, following the devastating 2023 earthquake in Morocco. Indigenous Amazigh communities in the High Atlas Mountains continue to suffer, nearly 500,000 Amazigh continue without homes and dignity. She urged the release of Indigenous prisoners in Morocco, arrested for peaceful protest of Indigenous rights. On the final day of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in April of 2025, Indigenous women delivered powerful statements, including global voices for midwives, and demands for justice for Native American women sterilized by the U.S. government. During the final day, the U.S. government representative criticized China for the genocide of ethnic minorities -- but he did not describe the U.S. government's own genocide.

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Chickaloon Chief to U.N. 'Rights of women, subsistence, and land are not upheld in Alaska'

Chickaloon Chief: 'Why are governments taking up Indigenous Peoples time at U.N. Permanent Forum?'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 6, 2025

NEW YORK -- Chickaloon Traditional Chief Gary Harrison spoke on the murder of Indigenous women and men in Alaska, the lack of subsistence rights and the lack of informed consent for what is happening on the land in Alaska, during the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

To a roar of applause, Chief Harrison questioned why governments are taking up the peoples' time at the U.N. Permanent Forum.

"I also find it strange that this is the Permanent Forum, and yet we have all these governments taking up the peoples' time -- the Indigenous Peoples time -- and telling us everything is OK in their countries."

Gwich'in, Okinawa and Morocco: Indigenous Women, Voices in Struggle, at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Quannah Chasing Horse, U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issuess 2025, Screenshot by Censored News

Gwich'in, Okinawa and Morocco: Indigenous Women, Voices in Struggle, at United Nations Permanent Forum

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 4, 2025

NEW YORK -- It is the sacred place where life begins, and now the U.S. has opened it to leasing for oil and gas drilling, Quannah Chasing Horse of the Gwich'in Steering Committee, told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

As matriarchs, Indigenous women play an essential role in the community, and are the life-givers and defenders of the earth.