NINTH SESSION
UN PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES
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New York, 19 - 30 April 2010
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Monday, April 26
AUDIOAM SESSION
AUDIO:
26 April 2010 AM - Floor or
Original [2 hour, 41 minutes]
AUDIO:
26 April 2010 AM - English
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[2 hour, 41 minutes]
AUDIO:
26 April 2010 AM - Spanish - [2 hour, 41 minutes]
Monday, April 26
AUDIOPM SESSION
AUDIO:
26 April 2010
PM - Floor or
Original - [2 hours, 49 minutes]
AUDIO:
26 April 2010
PM
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[2 hours, 49 minutes]
AUDIO:
26
April 2010
PM
- Spanish -
[2 hours, 49 minutes]UN PRESS RELEASES AND MEDIA COVERAGE
26 April 2010
Economic and Social Council
HR/5018
UN Department of Public Information
News and Media Division, New York
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Ninth Session
9th & 10th Meetings (AM & PM)
IMPACT OF ECONOMIC CRISIS ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, INCARCERATION OF INDIGENOUS YOUTH, CORPORATIONS, AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED IN REPORTS TO PERMANENT FORUM
Also Considers Reports on Climate Change Policies, Indigenous Fishing Rights, Mother Earth Rights, Reindeer Herding
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues met today to take up its agenda item entitled “Future work of the permanent Forum, including issues of the Economic and Social Council and emerging issues”. For its discussion, the Forum was expected to take up reports on: the impact of the global economic crisis on indigenous peoples; indigenous peoples and corporations; indigenous fishing rights in the seas; the impact of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures on reindeer herding; and consideration and recognition of Mother Earth rights. Read more...
Tonya Gonnella Frichner
TONYA GONNELLA FRICHNER, Forum member from the United States, provided highlights from the report on the International Expert Group on Indigenous Children and Youth in Detention, Custody, Foster-Care and Adoption.
Andrea Carmen
ANDREA CARMEN, Rapporteur of the Expert Group Meeting, which had been held in British Colombia, Canada, said that, as that meeting got under way, a human rights framework had been presented for the discussions, including drawing from the preambular paragraph of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as other core international instruments, including the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Hassan Id Balkassm
HASSAN ID BALKASSM, Forum member from Morocco, presented the Study on the extent to which climate change policies and projects adhere to the standards set forth in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
EXCERPT: PRESS RELEASE
CHARLES DILEVA, Chief Counsel in the Environmental and International Law Unit of the World Bank, said the Bank’s management was committed to presenting to its Board a review of its policies affecting indigenous peoples, as well as on the impact of projects being financed by the Bank. The management would note the growing importance of the United Nations Declaration, although it would also note that that Declaration was not a binding document.
At the same time, any revision to the Bank’s policies must be endorsed by its Board of Directors. The view was that current Bank operational policy was not out of step with the Declaration, especially since investment projects on indigenous lands could not proceed without free, prior and informed consultation. In addition, the project leaders then must obtain broad community support.
Following that statement, members of the Permanent Forum welcomed the World Bank’s participation in the meeting, but expressed concern that its standard was “free, prior and informed consultation”, rather than the “free, prior and informed consent”, that indigenous peoples had fought so hard for. Moreover, they believed that the Bank could not interpret international law; while the Declaration might not be “binding”, there was no doubt that it was a widely accepted global treaty that set out norms in line with human rights law.
PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORLD BANK STUDY ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Addressing journalists at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, on the margins of the ninth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Harry Patrinos, co-author of the study Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Development, said the status of indigenous peoples from Latin America, compared to that of indigenous peoples in Asia, had changed little in recent years, raising questions about the benefits of targeted initiatives, such as bilingual education programmes, which was popular in that region. Read more....
UN WEBCAST
Press Conference
26 April 2010: By the World Bank about their new study "Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Development".
Participants include Elisabeth Huybens, Sector Manager, Social Development, The World Bank; Elisa Canqui Mollo, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, and Harry Patrinos, Co-Author of the Study. The Press Conference will be moderated by Karolina Ordon, Communications Officer, the World Bank.
Webcast:
Archived Video - 27 minutesTUESDAY, APRIL 27th, 2010
Tuesday, April 27
AUDIOAM SESSION
AUDIO:
27 April 2010 AM - Floor or
Original [2 hour, 41 minutes]
AUDIO:
27 April 2010 AM - English
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[2 hour, 41 minutes]
AUDIO:
27 April 2010 AM - Spanish - [2 hour, 41 minutes]PRESS RELEASES AND MEDIA COVERAGE
Economic and Social Council
HR/5019
Department of Public Information
News and Media Division, NY
27 April 2010
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Ninth Session
11th Meeting (AM)
PRELIMINARY STUDY SHOWS 'DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY' LEGAL CONSTRUCT HISTORICAL ROOT FOR ONGOING VIOLATIONS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHTS, PERMANENT FORUM TOLD
Also Hears from Chair of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Established as Part of 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreemen
The expert members of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today turned their attention to the historical root of ongoing violations of indigenous peoples’ human rights, so-called “discovery doctrines”, which for centuries served as “legal” rationale for stealing land and dehumanizing aboriginal peoples, as well as justification for the establishment of boarding schools throughout North America to “civilize” Indian children.
Special Rapporteur Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Permanent Forum member from the United States, presented to the 16-member body her preliminary study of the impact on indigenous peoples of the international legal construct known as the “Doctrine of Discovery”. The just-completed survey revealed that the Doctrine, along with papal bulls dating back to the fifteenth century, and other such Vatican documents and royal charters, had evolved -- with disastrous effect on the world’s indigenous nations and peoples -- into an interpretative framework that had become institutionalized in law and policy, at national and international levels.
The belief was that indigenous peoples were inferior and that, with church assistance, they could be “Christianized” and, therefore, equal. “The Canadian Government stated early on that, through their policy of assimilation, within a century Indian people would cease to exist,” he recalled. For seven generations, nearly every indigenous child in Canada was taken from his or her family and forced to live in such institutions of assimilation, he said. Read more...
STATEMENT
Ellen Gabriel
Quebec Native Women - Femmes Autochtones du Quebec
Consideration of Issues Relating to Beijing + 15
Ellen Gabriel denounced gender discrimination in the Indian Act
that will not come to an end with Bill C-3 following the decision
of the BC Court of Appeal on the McIvor Case.
DOCUMENTS
E/C.19/2010/13
Impact on Indigenous Peoples of the International Legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery, which has served as the Foundation of the Violation of their Human Rights
E/C.19/2010/13
Estudio preliminar sobre las consecuencias para los pueblos indígenas de la teoría jurídica internacional conocida como la doctrina del descubrimiento
ACADEMIC WORKING PAPER
The Myth of the Inkarri:
Colonial Foundations in International Law
and Indigenous Claims to Self-Determination
Elena Cirkovic, Ph.d Candidate
Osgoode Law School, York University
York Centre for International and Security Studies
YCSS Working Paper
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OF CANADA
The Hon. Justice Murray Sinclair
Chairperson, Truth and Reconcilation Commission of Canada
PRESS CONFERENCE BY CANADA'S TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
Indigenous students taken years ago from their families and forced into residential schools by the Canadian Government as a way to assimilate into mainstream culture were now ‑‑ decades later ‑‑ receiving compensation for their trauma as part of a broad desire to leave a discriminatory past behind and build a stronger future, Murray Sinclair, Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, said today at a Headquarters press briefing.
“Reconciliation is a difficult conversation,” he added. Read more...
UN WEBCAST
UN PRESS CONFERENCE
27 April 2010: Truce and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations.
Participants include H.E. Mr. Justice Murray Sinclair, Chairperson of the TRC; Ms. Marie Wilson, Commissioner of the TRC; and Chief Wilton Littlechild, Commissioner of the TRC and moderator of the press conference.
Webcast:
Archived Video - 50 minutes WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28th, 2010
Wednesday, April 28
AUDIOAM SESSION
AUDIO:
28 April 2010 AM - Floor or
Original [2 hour, 47 minutes]
AUDIO:
28 April 2010 AM - English [2 hour, 47 minutes]
AUDIO:
28 April 2010 AM - Spanish [2 hour, 47 minutes]
AUDIO: 28 April 2010 PM - Floor or Original [2
hours, 50 minutes]
AUDIO: 28 April 2010 PM - English [2 hours, 50
minutes]
AUDIO: 28 April 2010 PM - Spanish [2 hours, 50
minutes]PRESS RELEASES AND MEDIA COVERAGE
Economic and Social Council
HR/5020
UN Department of Public Information
News and Media Division, NY
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Ninth Session
12th & 13th Meetings (AM & PM)
PAINFUL HISTORY OF STATE CONTROL OVER FORESTS TRACED BY ‘HEAVILY DEFORESTED FOOTPRINTS’ OF COLONIZERS ON INDIGENOUS LANDS, PERMANENT FORUM TOLD
At Half-Day Discussion on Forests, Speakers Say Policy Reform
Needed; Indigenous Peoples Must Be Given ‘Right to Manage Their Own Lands’
MS. VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ
Member, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
The “painful” history of State control over forests could be traced by following the heavily deforested footprints that colonizers had left on indigenous lands and territories, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was told today during a half-day discussion on indigenous peoples and forests.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Permanent Forum member from Philippines and one of six expert panellists to engage delegates on the topic, said an estimated 60 million people lived in or near the world’s tropical rainforests. Sadly, studies had revealed that those people lived in some of the most poverty-stricken conditions on the planet, and that their local Governments were among the most corrupt. Read more....
DOCUMENTS
Fact Sheet: Half Day Discussion on Forests
Las cuestiones relacionadas con los pueblos indígenas y la gestión de los bosques
THURSDAY, APRIL 29th, 2010
Thursday, April 29
AUDIOAM SESSION
AUDIO:
29 April 2010 AM - Floor or Original [2 hour, 39 minutes]
AUDIO:
29 April 2010 AM - English - [2 hour, 39 minutes]
AUDIO:
29 April 2010 AM - Spanish - [2 hour, 39 minutes]
Thursday, April 29
AUDIOPM SESSION
AUDIO:
29 April 2010 PM - Floor or Original - [4 hours]
AUDIO:
29 April 2010
PM
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[4 hours]
AUDIO:
29
April 2010
PM
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[4 hours]PRESS RELEASES AND MEDIA COVERAGE
Economic and Social Council
HR/5021
29 April 2010
UN Department of Public Information
News and Media Division, NY
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Ninth Session
14th & 15th Meetings (AM & PM)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES EXCLUDED FROM POLITICAL POWER, EJECTED FROM LANDS, FACED CORPORATIONS BENT ON DESTROYING LIFE-GIVING FORESTS, PERMANENT FORUM TOLD
Speakers Say Indigenous ‘Must Regain the Right to Define Development’,
Forest Policies Must Be Harmonized with Declaration on Indigenous Rights
While indigenous peoples made undeniable contributions to humanity’s cultural diversity, representatives of aboriginal and native groups appealed today for help from the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, saying they still faced systemic discrimination and exclusion from political and economic power, forced ejection from their ancestral lands, and depredation from profit-hungry corporations bent on destroying their life-giving forests. Read more...
Legborsi Saro Pyagbara
Ogoni
LEGBORSI SARO PYAGBARA, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, said forests would be under increasing focus as people grappled with how to address climate change. Last year, Nigeria had proposed building a military facility in one particular area, but nothing had been discussed with the Ogoni people. Their free, prior and informed consent had not been sought. The Government announced plans to move into that area and destroy forests, in flagrant violation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Such behaviour had vast implications on food, job and economic security. Similarly, the area was home to the world’s largest mango forests, many of which were located in the Niger Delta. Mango forest depletion, especially as a result of massive oil pollution, threatened his people’s cultural survival. In light of that, he recommended that the Forum urge the Government to stop building the military facility and develop a policy for protecting mango forests, in line with the Declaration. He proposed that the Forum hold a half-day discussion on business and indigenous peoples.
Audio InterviewLegborsi Saro Pyagbara
Recorded at the UN Permanent Forum 2002
English/Ogoni
FRIDAY, APRIL 30th, 2010
Friday, April 30
AUDIOAM SESSION
AUDIO:
30 April 2010 AM - Floor or Original - [54 minutes]
AUDIO:
30 April 2010 AM - English - [54 minutes]
AUDIO:
30 April 2010 AM - Spanish - [54 minutes]
FRIDAY, April 30
AUDIOPM SESSION
AUDIO:
30 April 2010 PM - Floor or Original - [1 hour 41
minutes]
AUDIO:
30 April 2010
PM
- English -
[1 hour 41 minutes]
AUDIO:
30
April 2010
PM
- Spanish -
[1 hour 41 minutes]UN PRESS RELEASES AND MEDIA COVERAGE
Economic and Social Council
HR/5022
30 April 2010
Department of Public Information
News and Media Division, NY
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Ninth Session
16th & 17th Meetings (AM & PM)
PERMANENT FORUM CALLS FOR DEVELOPMENT MODEL
BASED ON CONCEPTS UNDERPINNED BY INDIGENOUS
‘VALUES, CULTURES AND IDENTITIES’,
AS IT CONCLUDES SESSION
Recommends Global Processes — Such as Biodiversity Convention Talks —
Integrate Into Work Indigenous Knowledge Systems,
as it Adopts Ten Texts, Including Report
Stressing that prevailing development paradigms had often destroyed the political, economic and spiritual systems of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues closed its ninth session today adopting its draft report, which, among other things, urged the United Nations to support indigenous peoples' efforts to formulate their own development models based on concepts "underpinned by indigenous cosmologies, philosophies, values, cultures and identities".
That report, adopted as orally amended, was one of 10 texts approved by consensus and based on the 16-member expert body's discussions during its 2010 session, which opened on 19 April. Built around the special theme "development with culture and identity", which is consistent with indigenous peoples' cultural aspirations and world views, the Forum considered a slate of economic and social issues and their impacts, including the financial crisis, climate change, forests and the actions of multinational corporations, as well as indigenous youths in detention, the ongoing impact of "discovery doctrines", and Mother Earth rights. Read more...
UN PRESS CONFERENCES
PRESS CONFERENCE BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' FORUM
30 April 2010
While indigenous people continued to suffer in the face of massive development projects that stripped their lands of precious traditional resources and displaced their communities en masse, "we are at the dawn of a new sunrise", Carlos Mamani, Chairperson the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, said today at a Headquarters press conference.
"We can look to the future with a positive attitude," he added.
Throughout the Forum's two-week ninth session, which concluded today, indigenous and non-indigenous delegates alike discussed traditional practices for living well. A unique feature was the increased participation of States. A record 15 Governments had sent voluntary reports to the Forum describing the situations of indigenous peoples in their countries. Read more...
UN WEBCAST
WEBCAST OF PRESS CONFERENCE
30 April 10
Press Conference: Mr. Carlos Mamani, Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and Ms. Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, Member of the Forum, briefs correspondents on the outcomes of the ninth session of the Forum which ends Friday.
Webcast:
Archived Video - 28 minutes| F I R S T W E E K | S E C O N D W E E K |
