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DAILY REPORTS /
REPORTES DIARIOS
 

Daily notes from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,
13-24 May 2002, New York

Rapporteur: Rhiannon Morgan, Independent Researcher
IMADR, The International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism

PRESS RELEASES / BOLETINES DE PRENSA
  21/5/2002
PROBLEMS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LIVING IN CITIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED, PERMANENT FORUM TOLD

21/5/2002
REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES VOICE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS AT PERMANENT FORUM


INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF THE WORLD'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE - Press Releases
FINAL REPORT
  Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
First session
New York, 13 - 24 May 2002
MATTERS CALLING FOR ACTION BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OR BROUGHT TO ITS ATTENTION
DOCUMENTS/UN AGENCIES / DOCUMENTOS DE LAS AGENCIAS DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS
  English
Indigenous Health Report to the Permanent Forum
Indigenous Peoples and Health - Annex 1
Indigenous Peoples and Health - Annex 2
Indigenous Peoples and Health - Annex 3
Indigenous Peoples and Health - Annex 4

Español
Elaborado por el Comite sobre Salud Indígena
MULTILATERAL TRADE

Indigenous Peoples and Multilateral Trade Regimes:
Navigating New Opportunities for Advocacy

Russel Barsh

New York University School of Law
Conference Organizer/Moderator: Russel Barsh
May 17-19, 2002

The conference was timed to coincide with the first session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (May 13-24, 2002) and, like the Forum, aimed to broaden Indigenous advocacy from its narrow focus on human rights complaints against States, to a more proactive economic agenda. Multilateral trade regimes (MTOs) such as NAFTA and World Trade Organization have been criticized by Indigenous organizations as new and more powerful instruments of domination. Indigenous peoples have learned to make effective uses of national courts and the United Nations, however, although these institutions were also created by nation-states to serve states interests. In what ways and to what extent can Indigenous peoples use MTOs to combat discrimination and economic marginalization? We conceived of gathering a small, informal group of experienced and creative lawyers, scholars, and Indigenous leaders to workshop this question, and agree on some practical ways of bringing more lawyers and leaders into the discussion.

Participants included both faculty and students from New York University School of Law, the Law School and Centre for International Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia and the Indigenous Law Journal at the University of Toronto, as well as economists and legal scholars from the Harvard Business School, the Estey Centre for Law and Economics in International Trade, and the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management (IIIRM). We were also privileged to have guests from the Interior Alliance of British Columbia First Nations, the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, and the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs, joined on the last day by the coordinators of the Andean Indian lawyers network CAPAJ, and the Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Rights Organization of Africa.

VOICES

VOICES Exhibition for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Photo Credit: Pernacca Sudhakaran

 

 
 

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