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Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:42 |
SIGN ONPlease support the following Statement of Solidarity to the Indigenous Peoples of Peru by the Global Network of Indigenous Peoples on the Extractive Industries by sending an email to bongAHTtebtebba.org Halt State Violence in Peru and Respect Indigenous Peoples Rights!!
We strongly condemn the violent dispersal by the military on June 5, 2009, against the peaceful blockade by indigenous peoples in Bagua, Peru. Indigenous peoples have been fired upon and killed while asserting their legitimate and internationally recognized rights. |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 13:58 |
Tebtebba Press Statement on the Bonn Climate Talks - ASSESSMENT OF WHAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HAVE GAINED SO FAR IN THE NEGOTIATIONS IN BONN 2 Representatives of indigenous peoples from Asia and various parts of the world have been actively engaged with the UNFCCC processes, including the negotiations taking place here in Bonn now. We would like to present our preliminary assessment of what has been achieved so far. |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:28 |
Permanent Forum Concludes 8th Session, Adopts Key Text Designed to Transform Declaration into "Living Law"
In a bid to transform the historic 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into “living law”, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues closed its eighth session today by adopting a text that invited States to adopt or endorse the document, substantively inform the Forum about its implementation and effectiveness locally and nationally, and recommended that they do the same in core reports to human rights treaty bodies and the Human Rights Council’s universal periodic review.
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Friday, 19 June 2009 13:35 |
Press Statement of the Chair of the UNPFII on the Situation of  Amazonian Indigenous Peoples in Peru 11 June 2009 The Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues expresses her deep concern on the reports received during the Eighth Session of the UNPFII, regarding the current situation in Peru and the events which followed immediately after. According to the information received, a state of siege was decreed by the Peruvian Government on 8 May 2009 in response to the mobilization of indigenous peoples in the Amazon region against extractive industries concessions in the area without the adequate consultations and respect for their free, prior and informed consent. |
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Friday, 29 May 2009 06:18 |
PF, IP groups, Seek Change in UN Working Methods to Turn their Concerns into Driving Force Behind, Not Just Object of, Strategies
As representatives of United Nations agencies and funds shed light today on their respective strategies to address indigenous peoples’ concerns, members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and indigenous peoples’ organizations worldwide implored the United Nations to change its working methods so that indigenous peoples were the driving force behind –- and not merely the object of ‑- those efforts. |
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