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News | 07 April 2017
This action plan builds on the momentum and spirit of the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and to this end will promote partnership and collaboration between the UN system, civil society organizations, and multilateral bodies such as…
News | 27 March 2017
UNITED NATIONS, 27 March 2017 – The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, an expert body of the United Nations, welcomed the focus on the empowerment of Indigenous women at the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women, held at UN…
News | 21 March 2017
24 April to 5 May 2017 UN Headquarters, New York – Special Theme: “Tenth Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: measures taken to implement the Declaration”.
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News | 21 March 2017
The President of the 71st Session of the General Assembly will organize the next “consultation on the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions in relevant United Nations meetings on issues affecting them”, during…
News | 17 March 2017
The Commission on the Status of Women is currently taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 13 to 24 March 2017.
Priority theme: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work
Review theme: Challenges…
News | 06 March 2017
United Nations, 6 March 2017 – In preparation for the 16th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues which will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the expert members of the…
News | 13 February 2017
The President of the 71st Session of the General Assembly will organize the next consultation on the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions in relevant United Nations meetings on issues affecting them.
The two-day…
News | 11 January 2017
Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions participated in the President of the general Assembly (71st Session) consultation on the participation of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations 30 January 2017 to 1 February 2017.
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News | 09 January 2017
At its fifteenth session in May 2016, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues recommended that the Economic and Social Council authorized an international expert group meeting to discuss the role of the Permanent Forum, as well as the other…
News | 23 December 2016
Comunicado sobre la violencia suscitada en la comunidad Shuar de Nankints, Ecuador, por el Sr. Álvaro Pop Ac, Presidente del Foro Permanente para las Cuestiones Indígenas
22 de diciembre de 2016
Como Presidente del Foro Permanente de las Naciones…
News | 05 December 2016
The Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues invites all Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations and institutions to complete the following questionnaire on any action, taken or planned, related to the…