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- This week in review … UN Global Compact calls for comments on draft business guide on indigenous peoples' rights
- This week in review … Permanent Forum Secretariat circulates latest issue of Message Stick
- This week in review … UNESCO and partners take stock of Mediterranean Living Heritage project
- Resource: IPSI Strategy
- This week in review … Native communities in Peru take charge of environmental monitoring
- This week in review … Cooperative process results in establishment of Tursujuq National Park in Quebec
This week in review … UN Global Compact calls for comments on draft business guide on indigenous peoples' rights Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:21 AM PST Global Compact Releases Draft Guide for Business on Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Calls for Comments UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK: The UN Global Compact has released for comment the exposure draft of the Business Reference Guide on the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Development of the Guide was initiated by a taskforce of Global Compact LEAD companies that wanted to increase their and other companies' understanding of the rights in the UNDRIP and what to do to respect and support them. The Guide illustrates how indigenous peoples' rights may be impacted positively or negatively by businesses and provides practical suggestions for business action. Part I outlines key actions for businesses to take in relation to indigenous peoples' rights, including making a policy commitment; due diligence; consultation and consent-seeking; and having an effective grievance mechanism. Part II illustrates each right in the UNDRIP, suggests practical actions that businesses should take to respect each right and could take voluntarily to support each right, and gives illustrative examples. The exposure draft will be open for public consultation and comment until 1 June 2013. Comments should be submitted to undrip(at)unglobalcompact.org. Read the release … Further information … Download the exposure draft [pdf] … |
This week in review … Permanent Forum Secretariat circulates latest issue of Message Stick Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:17 AM PST The Message Stick UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK: The latest issue of the Message Stick, the newsletter that highlights the activities undertaken by the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and its Secretariat, includes reports on PFII participation in the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, held in Quebec City, Canada; a meeting on extractive industries, held in Panama; the international expert meeting on indigenous persons with disabilities; the joint UNDP-RIPP-PRO 169 national workshop on indigenous peoples' issues in Indonesia; the annual meeting of the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples; and the Forum on Business and Human Rights. It also highlights the 18th commemoration of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, and resolutions of relevance to indigenous peoples adopted by the UN General Assembly and its third committee. Download the issue [pdf] … |
This week in review … UNESCO and partners take stock of Mediterranean Living Heritage project Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:14 AM PST MEDLIHER: four years of cooperation for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in the Mediterranean PARIS, FRANCE: Four years of cooperation for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria come to an end, with the experience gained in the framework of the project MedLiHer, Mediterranean Living Heritage, showcased from 17-18 December 2012, in Paris, France. Co-financed by the European Union and UNESCO through the Euromed Heritage Program, and benefiting from the cooperation with Maison des cultures du monde, the MedLiHer project has aimed to build long term capacities of key national players for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in those countries, including developing national safeguarding projects and supporting their participation in its international mechanisms. The project also sought to strengthen cooperation and exchange of expertise and experience at the regional level through the creation of a network of institutions and development of a web portal with a database. Read the release … Further information on the project … |
Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:12 AM PST Strategy for the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative Endorsed by the Assembly at the Third IPSI Global Conference, held in October 2012, in Hyderabad, India, the IPSI Strategy includes sections on: an introduction; vision; mission; strategic objectives; and monitoring and reporting. In the introduction, it is noted that socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes are dynamic mosaics of habitats and land uses where the harmonious interaction between people and nature maintains biodiversity while providing humans with the goods and services needed for their livelihoods, survival and well-being in a sustainable manner. They are found in many places in the world under different names and are deeply linked to local culture and knowledge. When well managed, they can make a significant contribution to the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Millennium Development Goals and relevant national sustainable development policies. The purpose of the Strategy is to establish a platform that can enhance complementarity and synergy among the activities of IPSI members on the one hand, activities of IPSI members and of other partners on the other, at the local, national and international levels. The IPSI's strategic objectives include: increasing knowledge and understanding of socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes; addressing the direct and underlying causes responsible for the decline or loss of biological and cultural diversity, as well as ecological and socio-economic services from socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes; enhancing benefits from socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes; and enhancing the human, institutional and sustainable financial capacities for the implementation of the Satoyama Initiative. The Strategy also includes guidance on possible ways and means to achieve the strategic objectives. Download the Strategy [pdf] … |
This week in review … Native communities in Peru take charge of environmental monitoring Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:10 AM PST Native Communities in Peru Take Charge of Environmental Monitoring LIMA, PERU: At the end of every month, with the skill of an environmental engineer, Wilson Sandi prepares a work plan that will be used by Achuar indigenous people, like him, to document the scars left by 40 years of oil drilling in the Peruvian Amazon region of Loreto. Sandi is the coordinator of the Environmental Monitoring Programme created by the Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes River (FECONACO), which focuses its efforts on Lot 1AB and Lot 8, operated by the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol Norte. Using GPS equipment, photographs and video recordings, the monitors document oil industry-related environmental liabilities that date back many years, as well as new oil leaks in rivers, streams and soils on which indigenous communities depend for their survival. Since FECONACO began implementing the programme in 2006, 120 leaks have been documented. Together with two other indigenous organizations, the Quechua Indigenous Federation of the Pastaza River (FEDIQUEP) and the Federation of Native Communities of the Alto Tigre River (FECONAT), they have discovered environmental liabilities that even the government had not detected, and which are therefore not included in official records. Read the article … |
This week in review … Cooperative process results in establishment of Tursujuq National Park in Quebec Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:08 AM PST Tursujuq: Park created through exemplary cooperation MONTREAL, CANADA: For more than 10 years, various stakeholders and Aboriginal groups have contributed to the creation of Tursujuq National Park, including the Government of Quebec, the Kativik Regional Administration, Inuit and Cree elders and members of the villages of Umiujaq, Kuujjuarapik and Whapmagoostui, the Grand Council of the Crees, the Makivik Corporation, the Avataq Cultural Institute, members of the scientific community, CBI, CPAWS Quebec and the Pew Environment Group. Their willingness, knowledge and combined efforts allowed the park, which covers 26,100 km2 of land at the junction of the boreal forest and tundra, to finally see the light of day. Tursujuq National Park, which will be managed by the Kativik Regional Government, triples the total area of Quebec's national parks. In addition, while enabling the Inuit and the Cree to practise their traditional subsistence activities, Tursujuq Park means the preservation of populations of species of concern. These include one of the world's only populations of freshwater seals, endangered beluga whales of the East coast of Hudson Bay, the only population of salmon on the East coast of Hudson Bay, and polar bears. Read the release … |
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