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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 the Permanent Forum discuss all substantive agenda items.
The second week will consist of bilateral and closed meetings of the PFII members, with the adoption of the report on the final day. During the second week, Members of the Permanent Forum will engage in closed meetings with Indigenous Peoples, Member States and UN entities as well as to prepare the Forum’s annual report, carefully considering information provided during the first week.
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| First week |
10 a.m.-1 p.m. | 1-3 p.m. | 3-6 p.m. |
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| Monday 16 April |
11 am: Opening of the session, Venue TBC
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Side Events | Follow-up to the recommendations of the Permanent Forum (Item 3)
[Inter-active dialogue] Implementation of the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Item 4) [Speaker’s list] 17:00 International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019
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| Tuesday 17 April |
Discussion on the theme: “Indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources” (Item 8)
[Speaker’s list] |
Side Events | Discussion on the theme: “Indigenous Peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources” (Item 8, continued)
[Speaker’s list] 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Update on the Indigenous Peoples and the 2030 Agenda: Note by the Secretariat (E/C.19/2018/2) [Inter-active Dialogue] |
| Wednesday 18 April |
Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples (Item 10)
[Interactive dialogue] |
Side Events | Dialogue with the Chair of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and others (Item 10 continued)
[Speaker’s list] |
| Thursday 19 April |
Implementation of the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Item 4 continued)
[Speaker’s list] |
Side Events | Implementation of the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Item 4 continued)
[Speaker’s list] 16:30 Future work (Item 12)
Speaker’s list] |
| Friday 20 April |
Follow-up to the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples: (Item 11)
(a) Implementation of national action plans, strategies or other measures; (b) Ways to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples at the United Nations; (c) Implementation of the United Nations system-wide action plan on indigenous peoples [Speaker’s list] |
Side Events | Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples (Item 5) (closed meeting)
[Interactive dialogue]
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| Second week | 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | 1-3 p.m. | 3-6 p.m. |
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| Monday 23 April |
Dialogue with the funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system (Item 10) (closed meeting)[Interactive dialogue]
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Side Events | Dialogue with Member States (Item 6) (closed meeting)[Speaker’s list]
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| Tuesday 24 April |
Regional dialogues (simultaneous)
Indigenous Peoples, States, UN entities, National Human Rights Institutions are invited to participate. |
Side Events | Regional dialogues (simultaneous)
Indigenous Peoples, States, UN entities, National Human Rights Institutions are invited to participate. |
| Wednesday 25 April |
Regional dialogues (simultaneous)
Indigenous Peoples, States, UN entities, National Human Rights Institutions are invited to participate. |
Side Events | Closed meeting of Permanent Forum members |
| Thursday 26 April |
Thematic discussion on “Indigenous Peoples and Conservation”All participants attending the Permanent Forum can participate. | Side Events | Bilateral meetings of Permanent Forum members |
| Friday 27 April |
Closed meeting of Permanent Forum members | Side Events | Provisional agenda for the eighteenth session of the Permanent Forum (Item 13)Adoption of the report of the Permanent Forum on its seventeenth session (Item 14)
Statement by the Chairperson of the seventeenth session of the Permanent Forum Ceremonial closing of the session |
