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Announcing the 2025 Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus (GIWC)
English | Español | Français | Russian Download Flyer EN , ES , FR , RU Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus Invitation Dear Sisters, We invite you to join us on 18 April 2025 from 9:00 AM––3:00 PM on the Fifth Floor of 39 West 56th Street, NY, NY 10019. Please note due to holiday disruption…
Statement from the Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus GIWC 2024
Madame Chair, Esteemed Members of the Forum, distinguished representatives of Indigenous Nations, member-states, Indigenous Relatives of the world, on behalf of the Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus (GIWC) we are committed to ensuring that our collective voices are heard and uplifted. Collectively, we are in agreement that the issues affecting Indigenous Women, and all Indigenous Peoples…
Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus 2024
2024 GIWC Caucus Statement Statement Invitation English & Español English Dear Sisters, We invite you to join us on the 12 April 2024 from 9:00 AM––3:00 PM on the Second Floor of the Church Center of the United Nations (CCUN) at 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. We look forward to welcoming each…
Global Indigenous Women’s Gathering Invitation
English & Española Dear Sisters, We invite you to join us on the 14 April 2023 from 9:00 AM––3:00 PM on the Second Floor of the Church Center of the United Nations (CCUN) at 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. We look forward to welcoming each of you in person. As we prepare…
NY Daily News Op-Ed: Haudenosaunee Influence on Women’s Rights Movement
History’s forgotten suffrage heroes by Betty Lyons and Sally Roesch Wagner: It was no accident the first women’s convention took place in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y., near where the foremothers of the movement — including Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Lucretia Mott — witnessed the matrilineal indigenous society where women enjoyed rights to property,…
Haudenosaunee women inspired women’s suffrage movement
Commentary by our Executive Director Betty Lyons on Haudenosaunee women’s influence on the women’s suffrage movement.
Doctrine of Discovery and Colonial Terrorism
The truth, while spoken, never dies. It is a flame that may rest, smouldering in our bones. Perhaps for generations Yet in these very lines it will rekindle We are the flame that never died on battlegrounds of old And for as long as I breathe my story I am not vanquished I am my…
2017 Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus Statement (GIWC)
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