Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Official: Trump Administration Retreating on Indigenous Rights

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson staked his position on human rights – and by extension on indigenous rights – pretty clearly on March 3 when he failed to deliver the United States’ Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in person. Whether intentional or not, Tillerson’s disinterest couldn’t have done much to impress Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, in Washington, D.C. last week to wrap up and report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on her 10 days of meetings with tribal and U.S. government agencies on the impact of extractive industries – oil, gas, coal, uranium, others – on Indigenous Peoples.

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