In many Indigenous communities, dual justice systems operate in tandem: the European system, a colonial imposition characterized by hierarchical, punitive, written codicies, and the Indigenous system, which is often based in tradition and holistic in nature.

Human Rights Lawyer Michelle Cook (Dine') elaborates on the interactions between these two systems, and explains how communities can use the language of human rights to challenge the colonial legal system imposition in order to gain a seat at the table as independent nations with internationally recognized justice systems.

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is commemorated annually on 9 August. Ten years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Nepal-based Indigenous Rights Radio Producer Dev Kumar Sunuwar reflects with prominent Nepali Indigenous leaders on the country's progress in the implementation of international standards for Indigenous Rights.

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is commemorated annually on 9 August. Ten years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, progress has been made in terms of the formal recognition of Indigenous peoples in several countries, but Indigenous peoples overwhelmingly continue to face discrimination, marginalization and major challenges in enjoying their basic rights.

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, says she has found an inadequate process of consultation with Indigenous communities on the part of the national government during her visit to Honduras, where she was recently invited for a working visit to comment on a draft of a law regulating Free, Prior and Informed Consent. Indigenous Hondurans do not feel that they were adequately consulted on the content of the law. Further, the law does not meet widely accepted international standards of F.P.I.C.

HIV advocate Marama Mullen (Ngatiawa Māori), Executive Director of INA, the Maori, Indigenous, and South Pacific HIV/AIDS Foundation, discusses the HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness network that her organization has fostered among Indigenous communities in the South Pacific.

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Song: "Atahualpa" by Yarina. Used with permission.
Introduction: "Burn Your Village to the Ground" by A Tribe Called Red. Used with permission.

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, discusses with IRR Producer Shaldon Ferris the high rate of imprisonment of Australian Aboriginal individuals that she observed in her official visit to Australia. Disproportionate criminalization of Aboriginal people is evidence of systemic, structural inequality in Australia.

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Song: "YAWLICHALLAY" by Luis Cisneros. Used with permission.

Guión: Ri kich’ojib’al k’aslemal ri achamaq’i’, jun atowab’äl xjuch’ kuma ri tinamital pa ri juna’ 2007. Re wuj re’ nusöl chi qawäch achike ri k’o chi nikib’än chuqa’ ri man ruk’amon ta nikib’än ri chanpomanela’ chi ruya’ik kiq’ij ri kich’ojib’al ri qawinaq.

Ri mokaj tzij 25 richin re q’alajrisanem re’ ja re’ nub’ij:

Guión: Ri kich’ojib’al k’aslemal ri achamaq’i’, jun atowab’äl xjuch’ kuma ri tinamital pa ri juna’ 2007. Re wuj re’ nusöl chi qawäch achike ri k’o chi nikib’än chuqa’ ri man ruk’amon ta nikib’än ri chanpomanela’ chi ruya’ik kiq’ij ri kich’ojib’al ri qawinaq.

Ri mokaj tzij 24 richin re q’alajrisanem re’ ke re’ nub’ij:

Guión: Ri kich’ojib’al k’aslemal ri achamaq’i’, jun atowab’äl xjuch’ kuma ri tinamital pa ri juna’ 2007. Re wuj re’ nusöl chi qawäch achike ri k’o chi nikib’än chuqa’ ri man ruk’amon ta nikib’än ri chanpomanela’ chi ruya’ik kiq’ij ri kich’ojib’al ri qawinaq.

Ri  mokaj tzij 23 richin re q’alajrisanem re’ ke re’ nub’ij:

Ri achamaq'i' k'o kich'ojib'al richin nkijikib'a' chuqa' runuk'ik jalajöj rub'eyal kisamaj richin ri kik'iyirisanem.  Achi'el ri achamaq'i' k'o kich'ojib'al richin nkinük' jalajöj taq samaj pa ruwi'

Guión: La Ri kich’ojib’al k’aslemal ri achamaq’i’, jun atowab’äl xjuch’ kuma ri tinamital pa ri juna’ 2007. Re wuj re’ nusöl chi qawäch achike ri k’o chi nikib’än chuqa’ ri man ruk’amon ta nikib’än ri chanpomanela’ chi ruya’ik kiq’ij ri kich’ojib’al ri qawinaq.

Ri mokaj tzij 21 richin re q’alajrisanem re’ ke re’ nub’ij: