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News | 23 November 2016
The President of the 71st Session of the General Assembly will organize a consultation on the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions in relevant United Nations meetings on issues affecting them.
The two-day…
News | 22 November 2016
The resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/C.3/71/L.17/Rev.1) was adopted without a vote on 22 November 2016 at the Third Committee”s 55th Meeting. The negotiations were chaired by Bolivia (Plurinational State of) and …
News | 14 November 2016
UNESCO policy on engaging with Indigenous Peoples
UNESCO is inviting interested organizations and individuals to provide comments to its current draft policy on ‘Engaging with Indigenous Peoples’, which has been under…
News | 04 November 2016
Statement on the Dakota Access Pipeline (North Dakota, USA) by Mr. Alvaro Pop Ac, Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and Dr. Dalee Dorough and Chief Edward John, Expert Members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Grand…
News | 28 October 2016
GA consultation process concerning ways to enable the participation of Indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them (14-15 December 2016)
Dear all, please note that the…
News | 28 October 2016
New York, 17 October 2016
Madame Chair,
Distinguished delegates, Indigenous Peoples’ representatives
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have the honor to present today my third annual report to the General Assembly. I would like to start by…
News | 21 October 2016
Brussels – European Commission – High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Joint Staff Working Document: Implementing the EU External Policy on Indigenous Peoples
In the last few decades, there has been…
News | 21 October 2016
The 43rd Session of the Conference on World Food Security (CFS) took place at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, from 17 to 21 October 2016. For the first time, the Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) …
News | 19 October 2016
Following the briefing of the PGA’s Advisers on the process of the participation of Indigenous Peoples at the UN on 3 October 2016, the following indicative roadmap and approach to the consultation process was elaborated, taking into account the…
News | 18 October 2016
UNFPA – Health, respect and opportunity: advancing the Rights of Indigenous Women in the Philippines
Gilian Albios, from the Dibabawon tribe, looks forward to a far safer birth experience this time around.
Montevista, Philippines – For too long, childbirth was a lottery of life and death for many Indigenous women in the…
News | 28 September 2016
The President of the 71st Session of the General Assembly has issued the below letter to invite participants to join the Informal Launch Briefing on the next steps of the consultation on the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and…
News | 16 September 2016
VOLUNTARY FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Call for Applications
16th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (24 April – 5 May 2017)
&
10th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (19 – 23 June 2017)
Please…