Find resources and archives related to Indigenous peoples and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). This metafinding aid provides access to a wide range of materials, including documents, statements, and reports from various Indigenous organizations and initiatives.

Yanapaq

Yanapaq.info

What kind of documents can be found in the League of Nations and UNOG archives?

Water Protector Legal Collective – Statement (Natali Segovia) (PDF)

UNPFII Recommendations Database

Sacred Places Institute – Youth Members (PDF)

Factsheet: UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (SRRIP) – 2025 (EN)

Docip (Documentation, Research and Information Centre)

Docip Documentation Center (CENDOC)

Warrior Women

Warrior Women Archive

Wampum Chronciles a site maintained by Mohawk historian Darren Bonaparte.

--Videos about the Akwesasne Freedom School:

--Videos about the Akwesasne Freedom School:

UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

This Land, Crooked Media

The Nagoya ABS Protocol

The International Indigenous Women’s Forum

The 6 Iroquois Nations at the League of Nations (Deskaheh collection)

Tebtebba Foundation

Study on the extractive industries in Mexico and the situation of indigenous peoples in the territories in which those industries are located

State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Volume I

Sami Council

Policy of Engagement with Indigenous Peoples

peruse websites of the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (SPFII) and of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Our Traditional Government as part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) founded on the Great Law of Peace as well as other cultural aspects are nicely overviewed in the Haudenosaunee educational guide

Mohawks of Akwesasne (Canada)

Making the Declaration Work: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Länsman et al v Finland

Leave No-one Behind: the SDG’s and Indigenous Peoples (film produced by the Asian Indigenous Peoples’ Pact)

lands territories and resources

Jack D. Forbes

Jack D. Forbes Memorial

Jack D. Forbes and UC Davis NAS

Ivan Kitok v. Sweden,

Inuit Circumpolar Council

International Labour Organisation

International Indian Treaty Council

*Indigenous Peoples Rights International (2023), A Compilation of UN Treaty Body Jurisprudence, Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, and the Advice of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Vol IX

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights International

Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee

Indigenous Peoples' Global Partnership on Climate Change and Forests

Indigenous Peoples' Global Partnership on Climate Change and Forests

Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations, Vol. I overview

Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations, Vol. I part1

Indigenous Peacebuilders Network

Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples

Free, prior and informed consent: a human rights-based approach Study of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Center for support of Indigenous Peoples of the North

CENDOC search: subject = permanent

CENDOC collection browse (CL2)

Assempbly of First Nations

Asia Indigenous Peoples' Pact

Information Guide: UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) – 2025 (EN)

Upholding Indigenous Peoples’ Rights – Digest Issue #5, Legislation and Jurisprudence: Global Regional and national Developments,

International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs

International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs

Implementing the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention

The Deatnu Agreement: a contemporary wall of settler colonialism, Settler Colonial Studies

References / Bibliography for UNPFII (Docip) – 2017

GOVERNING THE GLOBAL COMMONS: HOW UNSR ANAYA’S STUDY ON EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES CAN INFORM A NEW GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGULATORY REGIME FOR TRANSNATIONAL CONSERVATION NGOS OPERATING ON OR NEAR INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law

Pitfalls and Pipelines: Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries

A Self-Determination Approach to Justifying Indigenous Peoples' Participation in International Law and Policy

State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues

Peruse website of the FIMI(The International Indigenous Women’s Forum), including the report Mairin Iwanka Raya: Indigenous Women Confront Violence

Good Practices on Indigenous Peoples’ Development, Tebtebba Foundation and Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Universalism and Cultural Relativism in the Context of Indigenous Women's Rights

Case of Kitok v. Sweden, Decision of the Human Rights Committee

Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), General Recommendation XXIII on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,

General Recommendation No. XXI, Right to self-determination,

*Case of Lovelace v. Canada, Decision of the Human Rights Committee

Archivaria 7 (Winter 1978–79) – PDF

Why We Came to Geneva: Indigenous Peoples' First Time to the UN in Geneva

Value Change for Survival

UNPFII 2019 Haudenosaunee Statement: Treaties, Protocol and Relevant Issues

Treaties with Indigenous Peoples in Focus on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (Press release)

To Survive, We Must Transform Our Values

Robert Staffanson Talk at Oren Lyons Birthday Celebration

Press Conference by Oren Lyons | UN Audiovisual Library

Oren Lyons Statement on the Iroquois Nationals Passport/Visa Controversy

Oren Lyons speaks to UN, Change Values so you can Survive ( HQ )

Oren Lyons Presentation – International Seminar on the …

Oren Lyons on the Indigenous View of the World

Oren Lyons | Honoring Nations / Indigenous Governance (Harvard Kennedy School)

Oren Lyons Gives Keynote Address at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions

Oren Lyons (biographical page)

Oren Lyons Address at the UN General Assembly

Oren Lyons-1: Racism, Native American Human Rights and the UN

Oren Lyon's PBS Interview

Keynote Speech: Keeping the Homefires Burning Gathering

Chief Oren Lyons | Ecology, Economy and Ethics

Inspiration: We can't give up — Chief Oren Lyons' hope

Faithkeeper Lyons delivers dire warning of mass extinction

Oren Lyons: Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan (blog post)

Chief Oren Lyons – The Roots of American Democracy (Bioneers)

Oren Lyons Presents at U.N. 5/15/14

Indigenous Peoples speak out at UN Permanent Forum

Conference Room Paper on the Doctrine of Discovery (UNPFII 11th Session)

U.N. declares tribes' rights

The Ice is Melting in the North: Statement to the UN Peace Summit

UNPFII Intervention training

UN Handbook 2023-24

U.S. Report to the UN Human Rights Commission on the Universal Periodic Review

Tonya Gonnella Frichner Statement in Response to the US Report

The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving address to the natural world

Statement by the Permanent Observer of the Holy See

References_UNPFII_2017

References_UNPFII_2016_EN

Press Release Ambassador Rice Statement on US Support for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Preliminary Report on Doctrine of Discovery

Paper on the Adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007

Oral intervention presented by Betty Lyons (Onondaga Nation) in "Regional cases of autonomy in the territories of Indigenous Peoples" at the UN International Expert Group Meeting, 23-25 January 2018.

Nordic Saami Youth Statement 2023

Leaflet on The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Joint Intervention The Haudenosaunee and the American Indian Law Alliance

Joint intervention on Territorial Integrity - UNPFII 13th Session

Joint intervention calling for Indigenous Nations permanent observer status - UNPFII 13th Session

Intervention on USA-Canadian Border Issue

Intervention by Haudenosaunee and AILA at EMRIP 6th Session 2013

Haudenosaunee intervention on Principles of Good Governance - UNPFII 13th Session

Fact Sheet on the UNPFII

Comite Global de Mujeres Indigenas ‚ Espanol

Bibliography_UNPFII_2024_EN

Announcement of US Support for Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

AILA Intervention Mohawk Nation Border Issues - UNPFII 14th Session

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Study on the Extent to which Climate Change Policies and Projects Adhere to the Standards set forth in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,

Study on resilience, traditional knowledge and capacity-building for pastoralist communities in Africa

Seventh session report

Report of Bolivia to the UNPFII at its ninth session

Participation of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations

Information received from Governments: Russian Federation: report on the international workshop on perspectives of relationships between indigenous peoples and industrial companies, held in Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation

Gender and Indigenous Peoples

Free, Prior and Informed Consent guide of the UNPFII

Final report on the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity.

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women

Convention on Biological Diversity

Central Desert Women, Housing and Health”, a project of the UQ Global Change Institute’s Flagship Fund

Health's role in achieving Australia's Sustainable Development Goal commitments”, The Medical Journal of Australia.

Free, Prior and Informed Consent: a human rights-based approach, Study by the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Report of UNICEF to the 15th session (2016) of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Conservation measures and their impact on indigenous peoples’ rights. Report to the General Assembly by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Conservation measures and their impact on indigenous peoples’ rights. Report to the General Assembly by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Study on the treatment of traditional knowledge in the framework of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the post-2015 development agenda

State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Vol. II, Indigenous Peoples’ Access to Heath Services

Outcome Document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

AILA Joint Intervention calling for permanent observer status

Haudenosaunee Intervention on "Principles of Good Governance

AILA Joint Intervention on "Territorial Integrity"

Study on the extent of violence against indigenous women and girls in terms of article 22 (2) of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Study on indigenous women’s political participation at the international, national and local levels

Study on how the knowledge, history and contemporary social circumstances of indigenous peoples are embedded in the curricula of education systems

Study on how the knowledge, history and contemporary social circumstances of indigenous peoples are embedded in the curricula of education systems

Consolidated report on extractive industries and their impact on indigenous peoples

Report of the UNPFII at its 10th session

Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice on US support of UNDRIP

Announcement of U.S. Support for the UNDRIP

Tonya Gonella Frichner Statement in Response to US Report

US Report Submitted to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

Discussion on the reports Doctrine of Discovery/Boarding Schools

Statement on the Preliminary Study on the Doctrine of Discovery

Intervention on USA-Canadian Border Issues

Intervention on the Issue of Hydrofracking

Preliminary study of the impact on indigenous peoples of the international legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery

UNPFII ninth session report

Study on the impact of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures on reindeer herding

Recommendations of the UNPFII to the Plurinational State of Bolivia, report of the UNPFII at its ninth session

Impact on Indigenous Peoples of the International Legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery, which has served as the Foundation of the Violation of their Human Rights

UNPFII eighth session report

report to the UN Permanent Forum 2009 on self-determination of Greenland

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Report on the Regional Seminar on Indigenous peoples in isolation, initial contact in the Amazon and Gran Chaco Region

UNPFII International Expert Meeting on free, prior and informed consent

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous peoples on the impact of large-scale development projects on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples and communities

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous peoples on the impact of large-scale development projects on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples and communities