From Sovereignty to Solidarity: First Nations and Indigenous Women Shaping Global Futures

Decades of hard‑won Indigenous feminist progress are under threat worldwide. That is why the First Nations, Indigenous Women’s Statement launched at Women Deliver 2026 Conference is a call for deep, structural change.

From Sovereignty to Solidarity: First Nations and Indigenous Women Shaping Global Futures is a landmark global statement led by First Nations and Indigenous girls, women, gender-diverse, and intersex people. Grounded in sovereignty, self-determination, and Indigenous knowledge systems, the statement affirms that indigenous peoples are not stakeholders within external systems, but sovereign rights holders whose authority, governance, and relationships to land, waters, and community predate modern nation states.

At a time of escalating climate crisis, violence, militarization, and widening inequality, the statement confronts the ongoing impacts of colonization and the disproportionate harms experienced by Indigenous women and communities worldwide. It calls for the protection of indigenous rights, the end of violence and criminalization, recognition of Indigenous governance and law, climate and economic justice, cultural and mother-tongues protection, and direct investment in Indigenous women-led solutions.

This statement sets out shared priorities, strategies, and calls to governments, multilateral institutions, civil society, and Indigenous communities themselves to advance treaty, accountability, and structural transformation grounded in justice and intergenerational equity.

From sovereignty to solidarity, we carry the strength of our ancestors and the futures of our children. We are not asking for inclusion in systems that have harmed us. We are transforming them.