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Evictions from Nooksack Tribe housing draw international rebuke
Thursday, February 3, 2022
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Human rights experts from the United Nations are calling on the United States to prevent the evictions of former citizens of the Nooksack Tribe.
In a statement on Thursday, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, and Francisco Calí Tzay, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, drew further attention to the plight of The Nooksack 63. Through the unusual public rebuke, they urged the U.S. to respect the rights of indigenous peoples, as enshrined in international law.
“We appeal to the US Government to respect the right to adequate housing, which is enshrined under article 25(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 21 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and to ensure that it abides by its international obligations, including with respect to the rights of indigenous peoples,” Rajagopal and Calí Tzay said in a statement issued by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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