Indigenous youth explore human rights challenges in ‘Through Their Eyes’ book
Victor Lopez-Carmen, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and the Yaqui Tribe in Arizona and Mexico, campaigns for human rights at an international scale.
In similar fashion to other motivated youth activists who attended the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York last month, he is pushing back against intergenerational colonization and assimilation policies in an effort to protect Indigenous rights.
Currently, co-chair of the U.N. Global Indigenous Youth Caucus (GIYC) Lopez-Carmen was also named a 2018 Native American 40 under 40 award recipient. As youth representative for the International Indian Treaty Council, he served as part of the U.N. human rights hearing delegation at Standing Rock on treaty rights and the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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