Special Events and other Parallel Events at the Seventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

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Special Events and other Parallel Events at the Seventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

18 - 29 May 2009

Monday, 18 May 2009

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Challenges for the Implementation of Interculturality and Plurinationality in the Bolivian and Ecuadorian Constitutions

Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations

Co-Sponsor:

Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations

Conference Room 4

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Estado de Implementación de las Recomendaciones del Foro Permanente para las Cuestiones Indígenas

International Indigenous Women´s Forum (FIMI)

Conference Room 7 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Self-Government in Greenland Department of Foreign Affairs,

Greenland Home Rule Government

DC2-19th Floor Conference Room,

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m L'autodétermination d'après les Innus en Amérique

du Nord

Conseil des innus du Nitassinan - Innu Council of Nitassinan (Innu Nation)

DC2-12th Floor Conference Room 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Gender-based Analysis of the UN Declaration on the

Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Femmes Autochtones du Quebec / Quebec Native Women Inc

Co-Sponsors:

Cornell University's American Indian Program Native Women's Association

of Canada

DC2-13th Floor Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m The rights (or lack of) of Unrecognized

Historical Tribes/Indigenous Peoples:

Implementation of DRIP

La Red Xicana Indigena, Member organization ENLACE-North (Continental Network of Indigenous Women)

Co-Sponsors: Winnemem Wintu Nation and FIMI (Foro

DC2-9th Floor UNESCO Conference Room,

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

Internacional de Mujeres Indigenas), The Indigenous Worlds Association, Na Koa Ikaika KaLahui Hawaii, and Lipan Apache Tribal Band of Texas

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m The Journey Toward Reconciliation The Wittenberg Center for Alternative

Resources

DC2 – 8th Floor UNEP Conference Room, 2

UN Plaza, 44th Street

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

World Bank Group Extractive Industries: Update on Implementation of Management's Response

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Industrias Extractivas en Territorios Indígena de Los Andes: conflictos y perspectivas

Oxfam América Co-Sponsors:

Oxfam, CEADESC, CAOI,

Conference Room 2

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Indigenous Women's Human Rights Concerns in

Urban Areas

Native Women's Association of Canada DC2-13th Floor

Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Presentation of UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous

Populations & UN Trust Fund on the Second Decade

Secretariat of the UNPFII Conference Room 6

Interpretation: E/S/F

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Indicadores de violencia en contra de Mujeres

Indígenas International Indigenous Women´s Forum (FIMI) DC2-19th Floor Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Actualizing The UN Declaration on the Rights of

Indigenous Peoples in Climate Change Policy

International Forum on Globalization / Tebtebba Foundation

Conference Room 3 6.15 p.m -9:00 p.m Welcome and Opening of the Indigenous exhibit

”Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Cultures”

Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues , the UN Department of Public Information and the NGO Committee on the UN International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Link Foundation

Visitors Lobby, UNHQ

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

10:00 a.m -11.25 a.m

Interpretation: E/S/F

REDD one On one - what are the basics issues of concerns for Indigenous Peoples

Co – Sponsor:

Indigenous Environmental Network NGO Committee on Human Rights (ECOSOC), International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of The Tropical Forests, Indigenous World Association (ECOSOC), International Native Tradition Interchange

(ECOSOC), Hmong Lao Human Rights Council, CORE (ECOSOC), Wara Instituto Indígena Brasileiro, International Indian Treaty Council (ECOSOC), Khmer Krom Federation, Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade (ECOSOC), Global Forest Coalition, Global Justice Ecology Project, Western Shoshone Defense Project and many others TBA

Conference Room 4

11:35 p.m.-1:00 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Exercising Rights: Good Practice Implementing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Cultural Survival Co-Sponsor:

Lancaster University

Conference Room 4

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Film Screening: 'Yajilarra: To Dream: Aboriginal

Women Leading Change in Remote Australia' Followed by a panel discussion.

Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations

Conference Room 4

10:00 a.m -11.25 a.m

Interpretation: E/S

Launching of IWGIA's yearbook: The Indigenous World 2009

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

Conference Room 7

11:35 a.m.–1:00 p.m

Interpretation: E/S/F/

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Launching doCip’s Documentary DVD on the UNPFII (1999-2008) & The Indigenous Portal for,

by and about Indigenous Peoples

doCip and the Indigenous Portal Co-Sponsors:

The Secretariat of the Permanent Forum

on Indigenous Peoples

Conference Room 7

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation: E/S

The Indigenous Peoples' Road Map to Copenhagen and Beyond

Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education)

Conference Room 6

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Women and the Right to Education UNICEF

Co-sponsors FIMI UNICEF Fondo Indigena

UNICEF Building Interpretation: E/S 1:15-2:45

Interpretation: E/S

Hacia una declaración de los derechos de la Madre Tierra

Permanent Mission of Bolivia Co-sponsor: FIMI

Conference Room 7

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Comparative Cultures of the Arctic Siberian Peoples Yurta mira _ World Yurta of Peace DC2-13th Floor

Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation

The urgent need for criteria helping to identify and denounce different forms of forced integration.

First Nations Education Council /Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador

DC2-19th Floor Conference Room,

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 6:30 p.m – 9:00 p.m A Brave New World: Indigenous Peoples in the New

Political and Economic Landsace

Flying Eagle Woman Fund Co-sponsors:American Indian Community House, Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation, Peace Development Fund, Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church of the UN, Seventh Generation Fund, SPFII

UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, Corner of 44th Street & 1st Ave

Thursday 21 May 2009

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Cultural Indicators for Food Sovereignty and Sustainable development

FAO Co-Sponsors:

IITC, SPFII

Conference Room 4

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Broadcasting Human Rights to Indigenous Communities

FAIRA Co-Sponsor:

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action Australian Indigenous

Conference Room 6

Survival - Guatemala Radio Project 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Nation State Responses to Violence Perpetrated

Against Indigenous Women

Indigenous Women's Network Co-Sponsors:

Amnesty International 7th Generation Fund Huairou Commission GROOTS International/GROOTS Canada

Conference Room 3

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Video PPT

A Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Sovereignty in the Arctic

Inuit Circumpolar Council Conference Room 9 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Taking advocacy digital: Emerging Online

Indigenous Youth Networks

UNICEF Co-Sponsors TBD

Danny Kaye Visitor’s Center, UNICEF House

44th Street, between 1st

& 2nd Avenues

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m The Spanish ratification of ILO's Convention 169

Reflections on its implications.

Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation - The Indigenous Peoples Programme

DC2-13th Floor Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Address the disproportionate numbers of Indigenous

peoples held as prisoners specially political

American Indian Movement-WEST Co-Sponsors:

1.American Indian Treaty Council 2.American Indian Movement, AIM-WEST 3.Peace Action 4.National American Prisoner' Rights Coalition

DC2-19th Floor Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Sami Self-Determination: Scope and Implementation GÁLDU - Resource Centre for the

Rights of Indigenous Peoples Co-Sponsors:

Sami Parliament, Norway Saami Council

10th Floor, UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, Corner

of 44th Street & 1st Ave

6:30 p.m – 9:00 p.m 10 th Anniversary Reception Flying Eagle Woman Fund

Co-sponsors:American Indian Community House, Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation, Peace Development Fund, Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church of the UN, Seventh Generation Fund, SPFII

UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, Corner of 44th Street & 1st Ave

Friday, 22 May 2009

9AM-10AM Presentation of the UN-DESA Civil Society and

Online Pre-Registration System

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S/F

Our Children Our Future, A Global Indigenous Peoples Initiative to Stop TB

Assembly of First Nations Co-Sponsors:

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Assembly of First Nations Stop TB Partnership - World Health Organization

Conference Room 4

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S/F

Indigenous Women in Leadership Department of Indian and Northern

Affairs Canada, Government of Canada

Conference Room 6 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Adivasi Women: Engaging with Climate Change IFAD - International Fund for

Agriculture Development Co-Sponsors:

CHRISTENSEN FUND - IFAD - UNIFEM South Asia

Conference Room 3

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation

Directrices de protección para pueblos indígenas aislados y en contacto inicial

Office High Commissioner for Human Rights

Co-Sponsors:

IWGIA-IPES

DC2-19th Floor Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Indigenous sacred sites: Biodiversity and Andean

spirituality

Yachay Wasi & Indigenous World Association

Hosted by UNEP

DC2-8th Floor UNEP Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Caribbean First Nations: Implementation Review United Confederation of Taino People

Co-Sponsor:

Indigenous Peoples Caucus of the Greater Caribbean

DC2-13th Floor Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Celebrating Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity Indigenous International Forum on

Biodiversity

Co-sponsors: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, UNESCO Links Programme

DC2-8th Floor UNESCO Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m

Interpretation E/S

Indigenous Chamber of Commerce of Mexico/Presentación de la Cámara Empresarial Indígena de México

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico Programa Universitario Mexico Nacion Multicultural (UNAM-PUMC)/

International Indigenous Women´s

Boss Room 1, Church Center UN 777 United Nations Plaza, (Corner

of 44th Street & 1st

Alternative Tourism (RITA)

Tuesday 26 May 2009

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

UNDP and CEESP/WCPA/TILCEPA Side Event on Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs)

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Participation of Indigenous Peoples in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Yasuni ITT: The proposal to Change History Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the

United Nations Co-Sponsor: UNEP

Conference Room 6

Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Principles of International Law for Multilateral

Development Banks

Indian Law Resource Center Co-Sponor: CEADESC

DC2-12th Floor Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: S/E/F UN-REDD Programme Operational Guidance: Engagement of Indigenous Peoples UN-REDD ProgrammeCo-Sponsors:

El Centro de Estudios Aplicados a los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (CEADESC)

Conference Room 4

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Launch of WIPO-LENIP Joint Publication WIPO

Co-Sponsor WIPO in association with LIENIP

Conference Room 6

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Indigenous Peoples Wellness Management System

Modern Traditionalism and a Return to Real Health

Blood Tribe Department of Health DC2-13th Floor

Conference Room,

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m The Role of Indigenous Women in the

Implementation of the UNDRIP: Exploring Local-Global Synergies in the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People

Organizer: Asian Indigenous Women’s Network

Co-Sponsors: Tebtebba, FIMI, African Indigenous Women’s Organization

DC2-12Floor,

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Celebrating Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity Indigenous International Forum on

Biodiversity

Co-sponsors: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, UNESCO Links Programme

DC2-19th Floor Conference Room,

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

6:30 p.m – 9:00 p.m Our Land, Our Life – Indigenous Peoples and

Sacred Sites

Flying Eagle Woman Fund Co-sponsors:American Indian Community House, Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation, Peace Development Fund, Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church of the UN, Seventh Generation Fund, SPFII

UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, Corner of 44th Street & 1st Ave

Thursday, 28 May 2009

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples - The Manila Declaration and the Results of the

International Conference on Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m The Aboriginal Land Rights System in New South

Wales and the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council

New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council

Conference Room 6

Conference Room 2

UN Plaza, 44th Street 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Local and Indigenous Solutions for Environment,

Climate Change, and the MDGs

United Nations Development Programme

Conference Room TBC

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Lands rights and Arab Minority Human Rights in

the Negev

Negev Coexistence Forum for civil equality

DC2-13th Floor Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

9.00 a.m – 6:00 p.m Exhibit & Sale of Indigenous Crafts The United Methodist Office for

the UN; the American Indian Law Alliance and the Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Flying Eagle Woman for Peace, Justice and Sovereignty

8th Floor, UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, Corner

of 44th Street & 1st Ave

Friday, 29 May 2009

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m

Interpretation: E/S

Reformas a Naciones Unidas desde perspectiva de Mujeres Indígenas

International Indigenous Women´s Forum (FIMI)

Conference Room 4

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Film Screening: Racismo, violencia y genocidio

hacia los pueblos indígenas ejercido por grupos de poder (terratenientes consrvadores de derecha) en Bolivia

Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations

TBC

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m Repatriation of Crimean Tatars after en masse

Deportation in 1944:

experience of non-violent National Movement

Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People DC2-19th Floor

Conference Room

2 UN Plaza, 44th Street