Margo Tamez, assistant professor of Indigenous Studies and Gender-Women’s Studies in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at UBC’s Okanagan campus, has been invited by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to present research findings on the impacts of militarization on indigenous peoples, their lands and territories on international borders.
Tamez will present during the fifth Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), held July 9 to 13 in Geneva, Switzerland. EMRIP provides the Human Rights Council with thematic advice, in the form of studies and research, on the rights of indigenous peoples.
For more information, visit https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2012/07/03/ubc-professors-research-requested-by-un-human-rights-council.
