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- This week in review … Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference on the WCIP meets in Alta
- Meeting prep: Chengdu International Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Resource: UNDP report on indigenous political participation in Latin America
- Resource: The Indigenous World 2013
- This week in review … SciDev.Net article reviews UNPFII 12
This week in review … Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference on the WCIP meets in Alta Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:10 PM PDT Indigenous peoples meet in Arctic Norway to prepare 2014 UN conference ALTA, NORWAY: The Sámi Parliament of Norway is hosting the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (the Áltá 2013 conference), to be held in Áltá, Norway, from 8 – 13 June 2013. The Preparatory Conference is organized in cooperation with the Global Indigenous Coordination Group for the World Conference. The conference is expected to endorse the Alta declaration with recommendations for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP), to be held from 23-24 September 2014, at the UN Headquarters, in New York. Read the article … Visit the WCIP 2014 webpage … Download the draft Alta declaration [pdf] … |
Meeting prep: Chengdu International Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:08 PM PDT Chengdu International Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage Organized by UNESCO, this high-level conference will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is considered to be a strategic opportunity to discuss the intentions of its framers, to identify its achievements thus far and to define priorities for the future. Scientific and legal experts and States Parties officials will participate in a series of plenary round-table panels seeking, focusing particularly on the challenges facing the Convention today, including: achievements of the Convention – changing the discourse of ICH and implanting new concepts; inventorying and listing; parallel universes – intellectual property, world heritage and cultural goods and services; and safeguarding experiences in the States Parties. Further information, including links to meeting documents … |
Resource: UNDP report on indigenous political participation in Latin America Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:06 PM PDT Intercultural Citizenship: Contributions from the political participation of indigenous peoples in Latin America Latin America has gone through an unprecedented mobilization of indigenous peoples in the past 20 years, but their political participation, particularly among women, is still low, according to a new study released today by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) during UNPFII 12. The report (available in Spanish) examines the region's six countries with highest percentage of indigenous peoples and greatest progress in political participation: Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. According to the new study, some key factors have helped boost indigenous peoples political participation in the region, especially: an increased number of indigenous movements, which also benefitted from communications technology, including mobile phones, the Internet and social media; the expansion of their rights after countries signed and recognized crucial international conventions; and an increased number of government agencies advocating for indigenous issues. The study highlights that indigenous women's political inclusion has been a major challenge, since they face "triple discrimination": being female, indigenous and poor. Read the UNDP press release … Download the report [pdf, in Spanish] … |
Resource: The Indigenous World 2013 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:04 PM PDT The Indigenous World 2013 This yearbook contains a comprehensive update on the current situation of indigenous peoples and their human rights, and provides an overview of the most important developments in international and regional processes during 2012. In 67 articles, indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists provide their insight and knowledge to the book with country reports covering most of the indigenous world, and updated information on international and regional processes relating to indigenous peoples. Download the book [pdf] … |
This week in review … SciDev.Net article reviews UNPFII 12 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:02 PM PDT Indigenous people 'excluded from development efforts' UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK: The 12th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York gathered to address the global response to political, economic and cultural problems affecting the world's most vulnerable communities. Representatives of some of the world's indigenous people have raised concerns that the global development agenda, including the UN's Millennium Development Goals and their planned successors, is being implemented without their full consent and participation. During the meeting, some indigenous representatives highlighted the disconnect between global development policy and how it is implemented in their communities. "We are concerned that, while the Millennium Development Goals have been established for some time now, we see government agencies instituting and implementing projects, and indigenous people [still] not involved in deciding, planning or monitoring these interventions," says Pablo Mis, a member of the Q'eqchi Maya people from southern Belize and coordinator for the Maya Leaders Alliance. Informed consent is the key to healing this rift, Mis says. Read the article … |
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