LibGuides: Native American Law: Organization of American States: Indigenous Peoples

American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man, American Convention on Human Rights & OAS "Indigenous Peoples" Topic Page

The United States ratified the Charter of the Organization of American States and is an OAS member. The United States signed, but did not ratify, the American Convention on Human Rights.

American Convention on Human Rights (@ Organization of American States)

American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man (@ Organization of American States)

American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (@ Organization of American States)

Indigenous Peoples topic page (@ Organization of American States)

Rapporteurship on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Created by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

Rapporteurship on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (@ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)

Provides: Activities of Thematic and Country Rapporteurs and Promotion and Training Activities (ch. 3 of Annual Report 2022); IACHR country reports; and IACHR thematic reports (recent example: Norte de Centroamérica y Nicaragua: Derechos económicos, sociales, culturales y ambientales de pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes tribales: aprobado por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos el 21 de marzo de 2023).
Current Rapporteur: Commissioner Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño.

IACHR Decisions & Jurisprudence

OAS > IACHR > Rapporteurships > Rights of Indigenous Peoples > Reports on Petitions and Cases

Developments re. Petition 624-14

Below are links to materials on the land claim case filed by the Onondaga Nation and the Haudenosaunee Confederation with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Commission admitted the petition based on Article II (equality before the law) and Article XVIII (right to fair trial/judicial protection) of the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man.

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Report No. 51/23, Petition 624-14, The Onondaga Nation