Posted on May 7, 2012. Tags: All Sorts, Ayala, Barack Obama, Black Granite, Black Hills, Dear Readers, Human Rights Council, Iclei, Indigenous People, Indigenous Peoples, Mount Rushmore, Mt Rushmore, Rapporteur, Reparations, Saudi Arabia, Sioux Tribes, Supreme Court Decision, Tribal Lands, Un Human Rights Council, United Nations Official
I blogged on the adventures of Special Rapporteur James Ayala, sent by the UN Human Rights Council (You mean the one with Saudi Arabia on it? Yes, dear readers, that one!) to investigate US treatment of Original Americans. Ayala called for reparations but thankfully Congress did not even meet with him. Here’s the latest idea […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on May 5, 2012. Tags: American Poverty, Cooperation, Federal Government, Human Rights Council, Human Rights Violations, Indian Tribes, Indigenous Peoples, Interloper, Legitimate Claim, Libya, Members Of Congress, Racial Discrimination, Reconciliation, Reparations, Serbia, Un Special Rapporteur, United Nations, Us Congress, Us Government, Veins
I am surprised I still have blood left in my veins as opposed to it boiling away between the attack on Serbia and this: A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on December 31, 2011. Tags: Adverse Effects, Change 72, Court Of Justice, Effective Action, Effects Of Climate Change, Eighteenth Session, Gender Age, Global Goal, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indirect Implications, International Climate, International Criminal Court, Migrants, Minority Status, National Leaders, Production Consumption, Rights Of Indigenous People, Rights Of Women, Waste Of Time
Deeply embedded in the always lengthy drafts of UN documents is this language on page 16 are these words: Requests the Conference of the Parties to develop, by its eighteenth session, an International Climate Court of Justice in order to guarantee the compliance of Annex I Parties with all the provisions of this decision, which […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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