On April 15-26, 2024, the twenty third session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) will happen on the UN Headquarters in New York. This 12 months’s session theme will deal with “Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ proper to self-determination within the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: emphasizing the voices of Indigenous youth.”
After a long time of Indigenous leaders pushing for inclusion and illustration on the United Nations, on July 28, 2000, the UNPFII was established as a high-level advisory physique to the UN Financial and Social Council by resolution 2000/22. Since 2002, the UNPFII has been assembly yearly.
The UNPFII will be utilized by Indigenous Peoples to lift consciousness, carry coverage change to different UN our bodies, and affect how Indigenous rights are carried out on the native and nationwide ranges. Over the previous 23 years, the UNPFII has coordinated and commissioned over 64 studies and reports and 60 publications. Members of the Discussion board have labored on drafting policies for UN businesses and have made recommendations to different UN our bodies.
A number of the biggest achievements over the previous 20 years have been the networking and alliances constructed amongst Indigenous delegates and representatives from all around the world. The relationships, partnerships, and friendships constructed are core to the worldwide Indigenous rights motion. Except for the official talks, interventions, panels, official aspect occasions, and parallel occasions, what actually additionally must be elevated are the aspect conversations within the hallways between delegations, UN businesses, funders, and State representatives. That is the place true change occurs.
Take a look at some key highlights from DOCIP.
Be part of us in amplifying Indigenous Peoples’ voices this 12 months at UNPFII with a collection of occasions and alternatives beneath.
1. Be part of the dialog!
What are the urgent points affecting your Indigenous group?
Create a brief video (as much as 2 minutes) and publish it on Instagram, Threads, X/Twitter, and Fb utilizing #UNPFII23 #WeAreIndigenous #Proud2BIndigenous.
Share your images from this 12 months’s and the previous UNPFIIs utilizing the identical hashtags.
2. Watch the Livestream of the UNPFII.
Opening ceremony of the Discussion board will probably be streamed at webtv.un.org.
Monday, April 15, 2024 11:00am.
3. Attend a UNPFII aspect occasion.
The complete record of aspect occasions will probably be posted here.
Be part of Cultural Survival at these occasions beneath:
Indigenous Environmental Defenders in Latin America: Methods to Help their Work and Shield Their Lives
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 3:00-4:30 pm ET
Convention Room F. United Nations Headquarters, 405 East forty second Avenue, New York, NY, 10017; entry requires United Nations floor passes.
Latin America is among the most harmful areas to be an Indigenous rights and environmental defender. Three out of 4 assassinations of environmental defenders happen in Latin America. Indigenous defenders face a double risk: defending rights and being Indigenous. In keeping with a World Witness 2022 report, virtually 40 % of murdered environmental defenders had been Indigenous, a disproportionately excessive determine on condition that Indigenous Peoples comprise roughly 6 % of the worldwide inhabitants. Cultural Survival’s non complete information exhibits 77 Indigenous defenders had been murdered solely in 2023. These figures show a scientific persecution is going down in opposition to Indigenous defenders on account of their land protection in opposition to mega initiatives, infrastructure growth, mining, and different initiatives undertaken with out their Free, Prior and Knowledgeable Consent. At this session we’ll carry the tales of murdered Indigenous Environmental Defenders to the entrance and can share methods to assist their work and defend their lives.
Sponsored by Cultural Survival.
Past Sources: Indigenous Ladies’s Rights and Resilience within the Inexperienced Economic system
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 3:00-4:30 pm ET – REGISTRATION
Convention Room 5, United Nations Headquarters, 405 East forty second Avenue, New York, NY, 10017; entry requires United Nations floor passes.
This United Nations Everlasting Discussion board on Indigenous Points aspect occasion explores the intersectionality of gender, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, and the inexperienced financial system, with a particular deal with the experiences of Indigenous ladies within the context of extractive industries. The occasion goals to make clear the distinctive challenges confronted by Indigenous ladies, amplify their voices, discover pathways for empowering Indigenous ladies in sustainable growth, and uphold their particular person and collective rights.
CO-SPONSORS: First Peoples Worldwide, Securing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights within the Inexperienced Economic system (SIRGE) Coalition, Worldwide Discussion board of Indigenous Ladies (FIMI), and Continental Community of Indigenous Ladies (ECMIA), Cultural Survival
That is an in-person occasion; registration is required by finishing this form. Registrants will probably be accepted as much as begin of the occasion.
‘Share Your Story’
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 3:00-4:15 pm ET
Convention Room 11, United Nations Headquarters, 405 East forty second Avenue, New York, NY, 10017; entry requires United Nations floor passes.
Indigenous Journalist Affiliation and Grist will co-host an official UNPFII “Share Your Story” aspect occasion. The aspect occasion will present a crash-course in honing messages, focusing communications, and dealing with reporters and function a primer for members attending a day-long coaching on Saturday, April 20.
For questions, please contact fcompton@naja.com.
3. Observe Discussions from the Indigenous Media Zone.
The Secretariat of the Everlasting Discussion board (SPFII) and the Division of World Communications (DGC), in partnership with Cultural Survival, is organizing an Indigenous Media Zone through the twenty third session of the Everlasting Discussion board in 2024. This can enable Indigenous media, journalists and platforms a chance to report on the session by Indigenous worldviews, views and languages and arrange media occasions across the theme of the session – “Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ proper to self-determination within the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: emphasizing the voices of Indigenous youth”. Non-indigenous media are additionally welcome to hitch the Indigenous Media Zone. Additional, in step with the Worldwide Decade on Indigenous Languages, the Indigenous Media Zone will goal to encourage the participation of Indigenous media practitioners in all kinds of Indigenous languages from totally different areas. A number of panels and interviews will probably be livestreamed on facebook.com/culturalsurvival.
The Indigenous Media Zone will probably be positioned within the UN Correspondents Affiliation Room (third ground, Secretariat constructing, S-310) from Monday to Friday, April 15-19, 2024, 9:00 am to six:00 pm EST.
Take a look at some deliberate panels on the Indigenous Media Zone:
Monday, April 15, 2024 3:00-4:00 pm ET
Indigenous Peoples and the Vitality Transition: Supporting Methods For Self-Willpower within the Face of a New Wave of Extractivism
Organizer: Securing Indigenous Peoples Rights within the Inexperienced Economic system (SIRGE) Coalition
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 1:00-2:00 pm ET
Indigenous Youth Leaders Defending and Promote Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Lands, Languages, and Worldviews
Organizer: Cultural Survival
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Medios de comunicación comunitaria Indígenas y el derecho a la libertad de expresión
Organizer: Cultural Survival
4. Attend a Parallel Occasion
Indigenous-led options to state-led conservation
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Church Heart(tenth ground convention room)
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
The aspect occasion is a panel on Indigenous Ecological Areas – understood as territories led by Indigenous communities as options to state-led and worldwide top-down conservation fashions. and with a dedication to: i/ resist extractive capital, monoculture farming and damaging state initiatives ii/ proliferate biodiversity and work in the direction of ecological steadiness in forests and waterways iii/ promote the rights and data of Indigenous lifeways and non secular understanding of ecology iv/ reject exclusionary conservation fashions. It has been proven time and again that Indigenous territories have the best charges of biodiversity and lowest charges of deforestation, but in follow there may be little or no assist for Indigenous-led ecological territories and in most contexts authorized frameworks are critically missing. Presenters on this panel have been leaders in creating and selling Indigenous Ecological Areas.
Organizers: Shipibo Conibo Heart and Tribal Hyperlink
Shareholder Advocacy Management Coaching (SALT) Workshop: Defending Lands, Sources and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
Thursday, April 18, 9:00 am-1:00 pm ET – REGISTER
Salvation Military Worldwide Social Justice Fee, 221 East 52nd Avenue New York, New York 10022.
This Shareholder Advocacy Management Coaching (SALT) workshop gives sensible instruments for Indigenous leaders and advocates to pursue shareholder advocacy methods to guard their communities, assets, sacred locations, and cultural practices. Individuals will learn to mobilize methods to focus on firms proposing dangerous initiatives, look at case research that make the enterprise case for Indigenous Peoples’ rights, and listen to straight from Indigenous and investor management with a confirmed observe file of making optimistic outcomes by company engagement.
Be taught extra about shareholder advocacy at https://www.colorado.edu/
Organizer: First Peoples Worldwide
Empowering Indigenous Youth within the Vitality Transition
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Lunch offered 12:45 PM
Workshop: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Languages: English, Spanish, Russian
Church of the Covenant 310 E forty second St, New York, NY 10017, United States
Register by emailing Bryan Bixcul at bryan.bixcul@cs.org
The transfer to a low-carbon financial system has been middle stage for each authorities and enterprise for greater than a decade. As efforts to deal with local weather change have prompted a swap from fossil fuels to “clear” vitality, the demand for transition minerals utilized in electrical autos, comparable to lithium, cobalt, copper, zinc, and nickel, has elevated exponentially. Whereas a shift in vitality consumption is important to mitigating local weather change, the influence of the elevated mining for these assets with out Indigenous Peoples’ Free, Prior and Knowledgeable Consent poses the identical threats to Indigenous Peoples’ rights, livelihoods, and territories because the fossil gas financial system.
This workshop goals to offer Indigenous youth attending the twenty third session of the UN Everlasting Discussion board on Indigenous Points (UNPFII) with a toolkit of authorized, shareholder, and market methods to advocate for the rights of Indigenous Peoples going through extractive industries, particularly within the context of extraction for Transition Minerals. Collectively, we’ll particularly tackle the suitable to Free, Prior and Knowledgeable Consent and its implementation as a key safeguard for Indigenous Peoples’ proper to self dedication. In the course of the workshop we’ll hear from group representatives straight threatened or affected by extractive industries.
CO-SPONSORS: Cultural Survival, First Peoples Worldwide, Securing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights within the Inexperienced Economic system (SIRGE) Coalition
IJA hosts ‘Share Your Story’ coaching for UNPFII attendees
Saturday, April 20, 2024 10am – 5pm ET
American Indian Community House
275 Madison Ave., New York, NY
The Indigenous Journalists Affiliation (IJA), Grist, and CCUNESCO will host the ‘Share Your Story: Talk Successfully with Journalists’ coaching to members of the twenty third Session of the United Nations Everlasting Discussion board on Indigenous Points (UNPFII) on Saturday, April 20 on the American Indian Community House, 275 Madison Ave., from 10 am – 5 pm ET.
The coaching is proscribed to twenty members. Registration is required and closes Thursday, April 18 at 6 pm ET.
The free coaching is open to all UNPFII attendees and teaches members learn how to talk extra successfully with journalists to be able to share their tales with the media.
