Attacks on Indigenous Rights Defenders Should Not Be Ignored

The attempts at political violence that took place before the US elections have almost been forgotten now and the country has moved on to other controversies. The perpetrator of the attempted bombings was caught within a few days. In the wealthiest nations, you see, political threats and violence are addressed and prosecuted.

human rights defender murdered in Guatemala this year. This is a staggering number of political murders, especially for a smaller country like Guatemala. In contrast, Carrillo was the 17th human rights defender assassinated in Mexico this year.

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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz has been the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples since 2014. She is an indigenous leader from the Kankanaey Igorot people of the Cordillera Region in the Philippines. A former Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, she helped build the indigenous peoples’ movement in the Cordillera as a youth activist in the early 1970s and later established and led the Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Center for Policy Research and Education).

Alfred Brownell is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence in Northeastern University School of Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) and the inaugural Beau Biden Chair of the Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF). Previously, he founded and led Green Advocates, Liberia’s first public-interest environmental law and human rights organization, for two decades.

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