New Mexico Navajo-Hopi COVID relief team volunteers picking up supplies on April 10th, 2020 in Gallup NM for distribution to elders and vulnerable families. Photo by Janene Yazzie.
IITC’s webinar series “The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the time of COVID-19” focuses on human rights violations that are contributing to COVID-19’s impacts in Indigenous territories, and how some governments are using this pandemic to carry out additional violations which further threaten our physical, spiritual and environmental health. The weekly webinars will take place each Friday beginning on April 24th, 2020. They will feature presentations by Indigenous experts from the United Nations and Indigenous Nations addressing key areas of urgent concern for their Peoples, as well as solutions and responses for a more sustainable future “post-COVID”.