15th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Indigenous Peoples presenting their cultural traditions in the United NationsThe Fifteenth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will take place from 9-20 May 2016 in New York.

More information will be provided on this page in the up-coming months.

At present, the questionnaires which will inform the discussion at Session are available for governments, Indigenous Peoples’ organisations as well as UN agencies, funds and programmes to report on.

The deadline to submit the questionnaires is 16 January 2015.

For more information, please click here.

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