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On 10 October, the UN Secretary-General participated at the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and the Defence of Life in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He emphasized that climate change is at the top of the international agenda this year. In his…
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The United Nations Secretary-General was in Peru on 8 and 9 October to attend the annual meeting of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.
While in the country, the Secretary-General met with the agencies, funds and programmes of…
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Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Ms. Joan Carling, delivered a strong statement on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, participation and institutions during the interactive dialogue on “Building effective, accountable and inclusive…
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2030 Development Agenda key for reducing inequality for Indigenous Peoples, says UN expert body on Indigenous issues
NEW YORK (25 September 2015) – A preeminent expert body of the United Nations on Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum on…
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Statement by the Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Professor Megan Davis
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN General Assembly on 13…
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On 18 September, Member of the Permanent Forum Alvaro Pop participated at a conference on political participation and Indigenous peoples in Latin American and the Caribbean. The conference was organized by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia…
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Joan Carling (Philippines), Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) attended the final inter-governmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda from 20 to 24 July 2014. During that week, she met with numerous…
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The observance of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples will take place on Monday 10 August 2015 in ECOSOC Chamber, from 3:00pm to 6:00pm at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
As part of the commemoration of the…
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The Chair of the Permanent Forum, Ms. Megan Davis, was in Geneva from 20 to 24 July 2015 to attend the annual session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. On Monday, 20 July, Ms. Davis attended the opening session and…
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On 29 June 2015, Permanent Forum member Oliver Loode made a statement under the agenda item “Sustainable Development” at the thirty-ninth session of the World Heritage Committee in Bonn, Germany. In the statement, he noted that the Permanent Forum…
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The report on the Fourteenth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is out. The report contains conclusions and recommendations made by the Permanent Forum at its most recent session on 20 April – 1 May 2015.
The report is available in…
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The Report of the Secretary-General for the General Assembly Seventieth session (A/70/84) provides an overview of the implementation of the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference…