Indigenous Defenders Face Reprisals and the New Threat of AI, Artificial Intelligence -- U.N. Expert Mechanism Begins in Geneva

 

Chair Valmaine Toki opened the session for the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Toki, previous chair, is a law professor at the University of Waikato.

Indigenous Defenders Face Reprisals and the New Threat of AI, Artificial Intelligence: U.N. Expert Mechanism Begins in Geneva

Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 14, 2025

GENEVA -- The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples began today. The increased reprisals for those speaking out at the U.N., the destruction of mining, and the new threat of AI, artificial intelligence, using Indigenous knowledge without consent, were priorities. The victories include the new progress of  the Rights of Nature, resulting in legal recognition for rivers and mountains.

The new chair elected today, Anexa Cunningham of Nicaragua, began with a chilling warning about derogatory and inflammatory remarks.

Haudenosaunee Cayuga Chief Deskaheh began the session with a prayer of thanks. President of the Human Rights Council Swiss Ambassador Jürg Lauber followed, expressing concern over the rise in reprisals for those speaking out at the U.N.

Now! U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Begins in Geneva 2025

Haudenosaunee Title Holder opens United Nations session with a prayer of thanks and tells the United Nations that Indigenous Nations must be treated as an equal.

"This will be the last you will hear from me until the States can recognize the Haudenosaunee and all Indigenous Nations as an equal, because we are. We have our own governments and we need to be recognized as such," Chief Deskaheh told the United Nations.

John Redhouse's Book Launch Details 'The Hate Crime Capital of the West'

Diné John Redhouse: Invasion and Genocide: The War on Native People is Ongoing

John Redhouse, Navajo and Ute, launched his new book on bordertown racism, and described how the history of the Four Corners region, with massive coal-fired power plants and oil and gas fields, ultimately led to Farmington, New Mexico, becoming the Hate Crime Capitol of the World. During book launches in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Albuquerque and Farmington, Redhouse describes the organized resistance to the racism and torture murders of Navajos by white teenagers in the bordertown.

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 12, 2025

Censored News at Indybay, New Today

ALBUQUERQUE -- "This book has been crying out to be published," John Redhouse said, as he named the great writers he was inspired by as a high school graduate in Farmington when he joined the National Indian Youth Council. "The Red Power Movement was, and still is, very much alive in the Southwest."

Cherokee Chief Hoskin's Statement -- Dangerous Hate Speech Targets Native Professor on Twitter/X

Cherokee Chief Hoskin Statement: Dangerous Hate Speech Targets Native Professor on Twitter/X

By Chuck Hoskin, Jr, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, July 6, 2025

Ann Coulter’s post this evening on X that “we didn’t kill enough Indians,” is beyond abhorrent. It is dangerous hate speech designed to inflict damage on a marginalized community and designed arose support in the deepest darkest gutters of social media. Although it is tempting to decline to dignify her regressive attack on Native Americans, I cannot and will not. This is no time for timidity.

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