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Publications

August 2025
SDG Framework Preliminary ReportDownload

This report exposes the critical gaps in how the UN Sustainable Development Goals include (or fail to include) marginalized Peoples, amplifying their voices and calling for truly inclusive global development.

April 2025
CNS Traditional Ecological Knowledge Forum Report.Download

Discover how Indigenous knowledge holders from around the world are shaping solutions to today’s most urgent environmental and human rights challenges—read the TEKF Report to explore their powerful insights and collective calls to action.

March 2025
Challenges and The Future of Minority and Indigenous Rights Protection Conference Download

Discover key insights and commitments from the “Challenges and The Future of Minority and Indigenous Rights Protection” conference — read the full declaration here!

September 2024
To Speak the Truth As We See It
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Explore the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ Peoples, including issues with healthcare access and political rights, and how colonization, religion, and legal systems exacerbate their struggles in this CNS preliminary report.

February 2024
IFES Engaging Indigenous Peoples in Elections
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Discover how Peoples continue to face challenges, from historical oppression and health disparities to climate change and political exclusion, and the importance of their participation in decision-making processes.

July 2024
Banning Books and the Suppression of Peoples’ Speech
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Learn how global suppression endangers cultural expression and the rights of indigenous communities in this insightful CNS report.

CNS Resolutions 2022
Culture and Society Commission- Adopted Resolution (1)
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Security-Commission- Adopted Resolution (2)
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Political-Commission- Adopted Resolution (1)Download
CNS Language Report Download

Indigenous representatives and experts explore the significance of indigenous languages and address critical challenges to their preservation, revitalization, and promotion during the UN Indigenous Language Decade.

CNS Education Report Download

This workshop introduces People’s Tribunals led mechanisms that give voice to victims of human and environmental rights violations and promote justice outside state systems.

RESOLUTION 2024 Security Commission

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Security-Commission- Adopted Resolution (1)

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Environment-Commission-Adopted Resolution (1)
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Justice Commission- Victim’s Bill of RightsDownload
Economic-Commission-Adopted Resolution (1)
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Security-Commission- Adopted Resolution (3)
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