UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII)

2030 Development Agenda key for reducing inequality for indigenous peoples, says UN expert body on indigenous issues

whit — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 10:11:48 +0100

NEW YORK – A preeminent expert body of the United Nations on indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, welcomed the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the UN General Assembly today.

The transformative Agenda lays out the global goals for reducing poverty, in all its dimensions, over the next decade and a half.

Indigenous position presented to UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

whit — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:09:23 +0000

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Geneva – Despite being most vulnerable to adverse human rights impact of business operations on their land, indigenous peoples are among those facing the greatest obstacles for accessing judicial and non-judicial remedy.

On December 1, CAOI, ENIP and AIPP hosted a panel discussion on Indigenous peoples and access to justice in the context of business operation.

A Third International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

whit — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:46:31 +0000

Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

In 1993 the General Assembly proclaimed the 1994-2003 as the First Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples following the first International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Ten years later, the General Assembly proclaimed a Second Decade, to commence on 1 January 2015, which comes to an end on 31 December 2014.

Over the course of the two Decades, we have seen some progress.

Indigenous peoples cannot be ‘deleted’ from the new global development goals, UN experts state

whit — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:18:00 +0100

GENEVA / NEW YORK – The new United Nations sustainable development goals must not be a step backwards for indigenous peoples, a group of UN experts* on indigenous peoples has warned today.

Indigenous women unite at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

whit — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:18:59 +0100

I met Alma Brooks a year ago at the Wabanaki water convergence ceremony in New Brunswick. Alma, a Maliseet grandmother from St Mary’s, NB, is on the frontlines against fracking in her community. A powerful voice, she said: “We have to bring these issues to the UN. I want the world to know who we are as Maliseet people, the people of the beautiful river, and the struggle for our water and our land.”

Alma’s words were an effective motivator, and prophetic too.

Challenges facing indigenous peoples of Asia spotlighted as UN Forum continues 2014 session

whit — Sun, 25 May 2014 11:37:33 +0100

Non-recognition and marginalization of indigenous populations of Asia, home to two-thirds of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples, and a growing concern of rising violence against indigenous women and girls surfaced at the mid-way point of the annual UN gathering of indigenous peoples around the world.

“Violence against indigenous women came out very, very strongly” during the half day dialogue Thursday, 15 May, on the Asian region of the 13th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at UN Headquarters, Forum member Raja Devashish Roy of Bangladesh told reporters a

Asia Caucus Statement on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

whit — Wed, 29 May 2013 10:17:50 +0100

Statement on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

By Joan Carling, Asia representative to the Global Coordinating Group (GCG) of the WCIP

12TH SESSION OF UNPFII, UN Headquarters, New York

May 20-31, 2013

The Asia Caucus is pleased to inform the UNPFII and others on the successful conduct of the Asia Preparatory Meeting on November 8-9, 2012 on the WCIP in Bangkok Thailand.

Positive trends in Africa to protect indigenous people’s rights-UN

whit — Mon, 27 May 2013 10:49:56 +0100

United Nations senior specialist Albert Kwokwo Barume stressed that Africa has taken positive steps to protect the rights of indigenous people, adding that the continent must continue making progress and avoid repeating mistakes made by other regions.Senior Specialist on Indigenous Tribal Peoples’ Issues for the International Labour Organization (ILO), Albert Kwokwo Barume, said at a press conference held in connection with the 12th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that “Africa has been consolidating and strengthening the legal framework protecting indigenous people.

London Olympics: campaigners target ethical records of corporate sponsors

whit — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:35:19 +0100

BP, Rio Tinto and Dow Chemical accused of using the 2012 games to ‘greenwash’ their reputations

The coalition of protesters is chaired by Meredith Alexander, who quit as a commissioner for the London 2012 sustainability watchdog over Dow’s deal to fund the wrap that will surround the stadium, seen here in a computer-generated image.

Bringing UNDRIP to the People Is Next Step for Indigenous Rights: Chief

whit — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:29:00 +0100

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and First Nations chiefs are ready to take it to the next level—bringing the UNDRIP message to communities to play out on the ground.

This was one of the takeaways that Ghislain Picard, Innu, regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations for Quebec and Labrador, had from the 11th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), which ended May 18.

“It’s a great achievement, and it has been difficult to obtain, but at the same ti