Environmental Health

Kids wearing masks at the Tar Sands
Kids wearing masks at the Tar Sands

IITC’s Environmental Health Program provides information, networking and training for Indigenous communities to address the severe health, environmental and human rights impacts of toxic pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, mercury, mining and other extractive industries.   It promotes safe alternatives, strengthens North/South and cross-cultural advocacy and builds capacity of impacted communities to assert their human rights including Free Prior and Informed Consent, promotes governmental and corporate accountability and works for policy change on the local, tribal, state, national and international levels.

Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources…

~ Article 29, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Program Areas
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      Environmental Violence and Reproductive Health
      Environmental Violence and Reproductive Health

      Online resources


      Indigenous Peoples interventions, presentations, statements, reports, etc.

      Toxic Profits Footage for United Nations

      Pesticides
      Pesticides

      Online resources

       

      Indigenous Peoples interventions, presentations, statements, reports, etc.

      Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Stockholm Convention
      Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Stockholm Convention

      Online Resources

      Mercury and the UN Minamata Treaty
      Mercury and the UN Minamata Treaty

      Online Resources

      Indigenous Peoples interventions, presentations, statements, reports, etc.

      Mining and Resource Extraction
      Mining and Resource Extraction

      Online Resources


      Indigenous Peoples
      interventions, presentations, statements, reports, etc.

      Climate Change
      Climate Change

      Traditional Knowledge Exchange Platform, UNFCC

        1. Recognizes the need to strengthen knowledge, technologies, practices and efforts of local communities and indigenous peoples related to addressing and responding to climate change, and establishes a platform for the exchange of experiences and sharing of best practices on mitigation and adaptation in a holistic and integrated manner;


      UNFCCC COP25, Madrid, Spain, December 2019 


      United Nations Climate Summit, UN Headquarters, Sept. 23rd, 2019


      Climate Action Summit Prep meeting, Mexico City, September 2-3, 2019 // Reunión Preparatoria de los Pueblos Indígenas para la Cumbre de Acción Climática del Secretario General de la ONU en la Ciudad de México, 2 al 3 de septiembre de 2019


      UN Climate Change Conference (COP 24), Katowice, Poland 2–14 December 2018


      UNFCCC Meeting, 30 April – 10 May, 2018


      COP 23 (the 23rd Conference Of The Parties, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn, Germany, Nov. 2017 


      COP 22 (the 22nd Conference Of The Parties, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Marrakech, Morocco, November 2016


      COP 21 (the 21st Conference Of The Parties, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Paris France November 30th- December 11


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      Indigenous Peoples statements, declarations, presentations, & reports on Climate Change

      Indigenous Peoples at the People's Climate March – Sunday, September 21st, 2014

      UN Convention on Bio-Diversity
      UN Convention on Bio-Diversity

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