Indigenous Peoples of the World

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According to the United Nations, the world’s Indigenous Peoples “are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of living.” Who are the Indigenous Peoples of the world and what human rights issues are they concerned with? Our speaker Joshua Cooper will begin with a description of various Indigenous peoples in different countries and discuss whether or not their long time struggles for human rights and for self-determination are being achieved. There are numbers of Indigenous peoples’ movements that we should know about and support. Joshua will report on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, the regional issues for indigenous peoples, and the UN Expert Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Joshua Cooper balances academics and advocacy focusing on international human rights law through diplomacy and street action. He continues to work with numerous indigenous peoples movements at the grassroots to the global networks. He has taught over 100 classes at the University of Hawai’i, as well as summer programs with emphasis on human rights of Indigenous peoples at the National University of Ireland, Galway and the School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia Washington D.C. He also teaches courses on empowering youth in peace and human rights at the International Training Centre for Teaching Peace and Human Rights on Geneva, Switzerland.