GARN officially launched its Indigenous Council at the UNFPII 2024

GARN was part of the 23rd session of 2024 United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York, where our lead organizer of the council Casey Camp Horinek along with our North America Indigenous organizer Julia Horinek, joined by GARN’s office director Natalia Greene, officially launched GARN’s Indigenous Council at Henry Luce Foundation. Our delegation hosted an Indigenous Leadership in the Rights of Nature movement event, and participated in several gatherings to highlight how defending Indigenous women, Indigenous rights and the rights of Mother Earth are vital solutions to the climate change crisis. At our event, the Indigenous Council was presented, recognizing the importance of Indigenous leadership and guidance for the growing Rights of Nature movement, and inviting Indigenous leaders from around the globe working on Earth jurisprudence to join together and have a leading voice at GARN. Thanks to ExCo members Tom Goldtooth and Osprey Orielle Lake, as well as our allies for sharing their work and wisdom – Jose Gualinga (Sarayaku), Gloria Ushigua (Sapara), Anne Nourgam (Saami), Shrylene Da Huni Kui, among other movement allies. Congratulations Osprey Orielle Lake for your book “The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis” highlighting RoN as a systemic solution. Thank you to everyone who continues to support our work! As Julia Horinek expressed: ‘Seeing the “sameness” of Indigenous Peoples relationship with Mother Earth from Pole to Pole, from East to West is a testament to the singing we feel in our blood.’