Dialogue Between Nations

22 May 2007

Press Release

Department of Public Information
News and Media Division
New York

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
HR/4923

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Sixth Session
12th Meeting (PM)
 

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES MUST BE EQUAL PARTNERS
IN ALL STAGES OF DATA COLLECTION,
FROM PLANNING THROUGH ANALYSIS, UNITED NATIONS FORUM TOLD

Also Address Ways to Ensure Participation in
Second International Decade of World’s Indigenous Peoples (2005-2014)

Indigenous peoples must participate as equal partners in all stages of data collection, including planning, implementation, analysis and dissemination, representatives of tribal and native peoples today told the United Nations Forum charged with defending the rights of the world’s 370 million indigenous people.

Speakers and delegations participating in the work of the sixth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York since last Monday, devoted their discussions this afternoon to two of the Forum’s ongoing priorities: enhancing data collection and disaggregation on indigenous people and issues; and ensuring active worldwide participation in the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (2005-2014).

Speakers noted that challenges to the development of indicators for indigenous peoples’ well-being were closely connected to challenges involved in data collection, research and analysis, and interpretation and dissemination of such data. Some, concerned that Governments might purposely distort information about native communities to adjust resource allocations, emphasized the importance of developing multiple criteria with active participation of local indigenous peoples to accurately capture the identity of, and socio-economic conditions in, their communities. Others stressed that data collection concerning indigenous peoples must follow the principle of free, prior and informed consent at all levels, and promote the human rights of indigenous peoples.

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Intro 2007 | Distinct Cultures Erode | Collective Survival | Recognition of Indigenous Rights | Anti-Poverty Goals
Extinction | Asia | Data Collection | Implementation | Climate Change | Free, Prior and Informed Consent

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