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News | 17 May 2018
The Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), Ms. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, intervened today via video message at the 27th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
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News | 06 April 2018
With reference to the organization of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, UNESCO together with a range of different partners prepared an Action Plan which will be presented at the upcoming 17th session of the Permanent Forum on…
News | 13 March 2018
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues expresses its grave concerns about the Philippine government’s accusation against Indigenous human rights defenders as terrorist group affiliates.
The Indigenous human rights defenders include…
News | 12 March 2018
The 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the UNHQ in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018.
Priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women…
News | 15 February 2018
17th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
Date: 16-27 April 2018
Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York
Theme: “Indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and…
News | 15 February 2018
The UNPFII Forum members have decided on changes to the two-week annual session. The first week will be all open plenary meetings. There will be no closed meetings during the first week. A condensed schedule during the first week will see…
News | 12 December 2017
Recognizing the gaps in analytical research on the situation of Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues called for a report on the state of the world’s Indigenous peoples. The Forum believed that this report will help…
News | 07 December 2017
23-25 January 2018
Conference Room 5 , United Nations Headquarters, New York
Sustainable development in territories of Indigenous peoples (Article 4 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)
Article 4
Indigenous peoples, in…
News | 24 October 2017
On 12 October the Social, the General Assembly Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Third Committee), 17th meeting of the 72nd session of the General Assembly discussed Rights of Indigenous Peoples [item 69]
(a) Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/72/…
News | 22 September 2017
The 72nd Regular Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 72) convened at the UN Headquarters in New York from 12 to 25 September 2017 and focused on the following theme, ‘Focusing on People: Striving for Peace and a Decent Life for All on a…
News | 13 September 2017
United Nations Headquarters, New York – Today marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN General Assembly in 2007.
No words can describe the feeling of joy, ten years…
News | 18 August 2017
On 8 September 2017, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, without a vote, a resolution titled, “enhancing the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on…