Special Events and other Parallel Events at the Seventh ...



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Special Events and other Parallel Events at the Seventh Session of the

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

21 April - 2 May 2008

Monday, 21 April 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |UNDP EEG/SGP consultation with indigenous peoples on climate change and |UNDP/ EEG / GEF SGP |Conference Room 2 |

| |biodiversity conservation |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |UNDP Environment & Energy Group, GEF Small Grants | |

| | |Programme, UNDP Equator Initiative | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Peoples Leading the Way on Climate Change |Inuit Circumpolar Council |Conference Room 8 |

| | |Co-sponsors: Inuit Circumpolar Council – Canada; Inuit | |

| | |Circumpolar Council - Greenland | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Cambio Climático y Desertificación en Los Andes |CAPAJ and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for |Room E |

| | |Human Rights | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Symposium on the Implementation of United Nations Declaration on the |Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the United Nations, |Library Auditorium Dag |

| |Rights of the Indigenous Peoples |Permanent Mission of Namibia to the United Nations, |Hammarskjöld |

| | |Society for Threatened Peoples | |

| | |International and Earth Peoples | |

|10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. |“We the Indigenous Peoples: Self/Portraits” - A photo project with and |Secretariat of the Permanent |United Nation Club Room (GA-37) |

| |for indigenous peoples. |Forum on Indigenous Issues | |

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Launching of IWGIA’s yearbook, The Indigenous World 2008 |International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)|Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | | | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Women and Climate Change |The Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples (NCIV) |Conference Room 1 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | | | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Global Dialogue: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples |UNDP - Regional Initiative on Indigenous Peoples' |Conference Room 7 |

| | |Rights and Development | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Youth Issues and Challenges from Global and Regional |Taking it Global –Canadian Heritage |Room D |

| |Perspectives |Co-sponsors: Global Action Youth Network; Mi’kmaq | |

| | |Native Friendship Centre (Canada); Athabaska Chipewyan | |

| | |First Nation; Eskasoni First Nation; Canadian Heritage | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Implementing ILO Convention No. 169 in Nepal-- Towards an Inclusive |International Labour Organization (ILO) |Library Auditorium Dag |

| |State | |Hammarskjöld |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |The Potential Role of a United Nations University Traditional Knowledge |United Nation University – Institute of Advance Studies|DC2-23rd Floor |

| |Institution. |in conjunction with the Christensen Fund |Conference Room |

| | | |2 UN Plaza, 44th Street |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Increasing indigenous people’s voices in the Commission on |Division for Sustainable Development/UN-DESA |DC2-22nd Floor |

| |SustainableDevelopment (CSD) | |Conference Room 2227 |

| | | |2 UN Plaza, 44th Street |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Share your Story at Indigenous |Indigenous ICT Task Force |DC2-13th Floor |

| | |Co-sponsors: Incomindios Switzerland, Na Koa Ikaika o |Conference Room |

| | |ka Lahui Hawaii |2 UN Plaza, 44th Street |

|6.05 p.m. -9:00 p.m. |Welcome and Opening of the Indigenous exhibit “ In Celebration of the |Secretariat of the Permanent |Visitors Lobby, UNHQ |

| |Adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous |Forum on Indigenous Issues , the UN Department of | |

| |Peoples” |Public Information and the NGO Committee on the UN | |

| | |International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples | |

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|10:00 a.m. -11.25 a.m. |Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Biodiversity |Tebtebba Foundation |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | | | |

|10:00 a.m. -11.25 a.m. |Expert Panel on Global TB initiatives --How do we empower our people? |Assembly of First Nations |Conference Room 9 |

|Interpretation available in E/F | |Co-sponsors: World Health Organization | |

|11:35 p.m.-1:00 p.m. |Report on the indicators of development and the well-being of world’s |UNAM Mexico Multicultural Program |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in S/E |indigenous peoples | | |

|11:35 p.m.-1:00 p.m. |Comunidades Guaranies en condiciones de servidumbre en el Chaco |Ministerio de Justicia de Bolivia |Conference Room 9 |

|Interpretation available in S/E |Boliviano |Co-sponsors: Confederación de Pueblos Indígenas de | |

| | |Bolivia (CIDOB); Asamblea del Pueblo Guaraní (APG); | |

| | |Consejo de Capitanes de Chuquisaca (CCCH). | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Managing Indigenous Local Governments: Balancing Traditions with |Department of Public Administration and Development |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in |Emerging Challenges |Management of UNDESA in partnership with the | |

|S/E/F/P | |Secretariat of the Permanent | |

| | |Forum on Indigenous Issues | |

| | |Co-sponsors: Permanent Mission of Australia to the | |

| | |United Nations and Otavalo Municipality, Ecuador. | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: From Bali to New York |International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples|Conference Room 8 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | |of the Tropical Forest | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Developing Community FPIC Procedures: Presenting the community vision |Center for International Environmental Law |Conference Room 5 |

|Interpretation available in S/E |for engagement to Secure Indigenous Rights? |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |Forest Peoples Programme and Tebtebba Foundation | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Climate change, and bio-cultural diversity: A Caribbean First Nations |United Confederation of Taino People |DC2-13th Floor |

| |Perspective |Co-sponsors: The Government of Dominica (tentative); |Conference Room |

| | |Consejo General de Tainos Borincanos, |2 UN Plaza, 44th Street |

| | |Caribbean Organization of Indigenous Peoples , Kalinago| |

| | |Nation of Dominica, Caney Quinto Mundo | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Film screening: Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations, Vol.1 |Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations and |Library Auditorium Dag |

| | |the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous |Hammarskjöld |

| | |Issues | |

|6.15pm – 8pm |Folklor ensemble concert "Paabel" to celebrate the 7th session of the |Permanent Mission of Estonia to the United Nations |Library Auditorium Dag |

| |UNPFII | |Hammarskjöld |

|6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. |Water: Spirit, Sustenance, and Survival |Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development |777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd |

|Refreshments served | |Co-sponsors: American Indian Law Alliance, Mainyoito |Floor, Corner of 44th Street & 1st|

| | |Pastoralists Integrated Development Organization, |Ave.) New York, NY 10017 |

| | |Native Youth Coalition, Traditional Circle of Indian | |

| | |Elders and Youth, Seventh Generation Fund for Indian | |

| | |Development | |

|6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |UNEP and Indigenous Peoples: Partnership in Promoting the Environment |UNEP and TEBTEBBA |"Drew Room", Basement of the |

|Refreshments served |and Human Well-being | |Church Centre |

| | | |777 UN Plaza, corner of East 44th |

| | | |street and 1st Avenue |

| | | |(entrance on 44th Street). |

Thursday 24 April 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |The Revitalization of threatened languages |UNICEF |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Indigenous | |

| | |Intercultural University of the German Technical | |

| | |Cooperation (GTZ); Indigenous Fund (Fondo Indígena); | |

| | |International Indigenous Women’s Forum (Foro | |

| | |Internacional de Mujeres Indígenas) (IIWF/FIMI); | |

| | |Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation (Agencia | |

| | |Española de Cooperación Internacional para el | |

| | |Desarrollo - AECID) | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Peoples’ Self-Determined Development of Development with |Tebtebba Foundation |Conference Room 7 |

|Interpretation available in S/E |Identity |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |CADPI, Arid Lands Institute and The Christensen Fund | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Traditional Knowledge, Traditional and Culture expressions |WIPO |Conference Room 5 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | | | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Wood based biofuels and genetically engineered tress |The Global Justice Ecology Project |Conference Room 9 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | |Co-sponsors: Ikatan Cendekiawan Tanimbar Indonesia | |

| | |(ICTI) and Global Forest Coalition | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |The Future for Indigenous Australian Higher Education |National Indigenous Higher Education Network of |Room E |

| | |Australia | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Bringing our languages home again through community-based programs ~ |Cultural Survival |DC2-23rd Floor |

| |American Indian/Native Hawaiian language revitalization |Co-sponsors: Euchee/Yuchi Language Program; Center for|Conference Room |

| | |Hawaiian Studies – University of Hawa’ii at Manoa; |2 UN Plaza, 44th Street |

| | |National Alliance to Save Native Languages; Northern | |

| | |Arapaho Council of Elders | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Peoples and the Private Sector |Tribal Link Foundation |Conference Room 3 |

| | |Co-sponsors: Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on | |

| | |Indigenous Issues | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Peoples: Contributions to humanity past and present. |She Clan of the Yamassee Native American Muurs' |DC2-13th Floor |

| | |Co-sponsors: Unity Washita/w de Dugdahmoundyah Nation |Conference Room |

| | |of Naga Mu’urs (Moors) in treaty with the Great Seal |2 UN Plaza, 44th Street |

| | |National Association of Moorish Affairs, the Moors of | |

| | |the Round Table, the Seminole Inter Tribal Nation, the | |

| | |Original Moab Kituwah Cherokee Nation, the Ani-Gidulwa | |

| | |Nation, the Yamassee Nation of Moors (Mu’urs), the | |

| | |Kemetic Zulu Nation of Moors, the Nesehu Clan of Moors | |

| | |and the (I.S.I.S.) Indigenous Sovereign International | |

| | |Society | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Heeding Indigenous Knowledge and creating opportunities in the climate |Australian Mission to the United Nations |Permanent Mission of Australia to |

| |change response | |the United Nations, Level 33 150 |

| | | |East 42nd Street |

Friday, 25 April 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Bringing the Declaration Home: The Case of the Maya of Southern Belize |Rainforest Foundation |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | |Co-sponsors: University of Arizona’s Indigenous Peoples| |

| | |Law and Policy Program, Maya Leaders Alliance (MLA); | |

| | |United Nations Non-Governmental Liasion Service; | |

| | |Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management; | |

| | |Julia Cho Society. | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |REDD, Avoided Deforestation Policies and Indigenous Peoples: potential |Forest Peoples Programme |Conference Room 8 |

|Interpretation available in S/E |impacts and possible strategies |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |Tebtebba Foundation, IPACC | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Climate Change in the 4 regions of the Coordination of French Speaking |Coordination Autochtone Francoohone (CAF) |Room E |

| |Indigenous Peoples |Co-sponsors: International Work Group for Indigenous | |

| | |Affairs (IWGIA) | |

Monday, 28 April 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: |Tebtebba Foundation and International Forum on |Conference Room 2 |

| |Dimensions of the Global Triple Crisis |Globalization | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Writers on Writing |Muhlenberg College |Conference Room 5 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | | | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Climate Change and Reindeer Herding |Saami Council |Conference Room 8 |

| | |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry; | |

| | |Association of World Reindeer Herders | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Climate Change, Displacement and Mobile Indigenous Peoples |World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP) |Room E |

| | |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |The Standing Committee of the Dana Declaration for | |

| | |Mobile Peoples and Conservation; International Fund for| |

| | |Agricultural Development | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Religious Freedom Lockdown: Justice, Jails, and Families |Flying Eagle Woman Fund |Library Auditorium Dag |

| | |Co-sponsors: |Hammarskjöld |

| | |Peace Development Fund | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Ancient wisdom, bio-cultural diversity of indigenous peoples en the |Yurta Mira World Yurta of Peace Inc. |DC2-13th Floor |

| |condition of climate change and global warming |Co-sponsors: |Conference Room |

| | |Ministry of External Affairs of Yakutia; Ministry of |2 UN Plaza, 44th Street |

| | |Protection of Enviorenment | |

|10.00 a.m.-6:00 p. m. |Exhibit & Sale of Indigenous Crafts |United Methodist Office for the UN, Women's Division |777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd |

| | |Co-sponsor: |Floor, Corner of 44th Street & 1st|

| | |Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues|Ave.) New York, NY 10017 |

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Languages and the Media |UNESCO |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in | | | |

|S/E/F | | | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Small Grants, Big Results: the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous |Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues|Conference Room 4 |

|Interpretation available in |Populations & the UN Trust Fund for the Second International Decade of |and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human | |

|S/E/F |the World's Indigenous People |Rights | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Women |Asian Indigenous Women's Network |Conference Room 5 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | |Co-sponsors: Asian Indigenous Women's Network, | |

| | |Tebtebba, Women's Resource Network-Bangladesh, | |

| | |Indigenous Women's Network – Thailand, Indigenous | |

| | |Women's Forum in North East India, Women's | |

| | |Directorate-AMAN, National Network of Indigenous Women | |

| | |- Nepal | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Politics, Inter-tribal Conflicts and Ethnic Cleansing in Africa and |Safe the Community Common Initiative Group |Room E |

| |Indigenous Challenges |Co-sponsors: SAFCOM CIG | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Nuclear, Coal, and Oil: Climate Change at its Best |Flying Eagle Woman Fund |Library Auditorium Dag |

| | |Co-sponsors: |Hammarskjöld |

| | |Peace Development Fund | |

|3:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. |Violence Against Indigenous Women |Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) and the |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in S/E | |Indigenous Women's Forum (FIMI) | |

|4:35 p.m.-6:00 p.m. |Recent developments in Saami Rights Issues |Saami Council |Conference Room 2 |

|6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |Screening of the film 4REAL YAWANAWA |Tribal Link, UNDP Equator Initiative, 4REAL, and Aveda |Conference Room 4 |

|10.00 a.m.-6:00 p. m. |Exhibit & Sale of Indigenous Crafts |United Methodist Office for the UN, Women's Division |777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd |

| | |Co-sponsor: |Floor, Corner of 44th Street & 1st|

| | |Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues|Ave.) New York, NY 10017 |

|6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |Sovereignty, Indigenous Peoples and the Environment |The Flying Eagle Woman Fund |United Methodist Office for the |

| | |Co-sponsors: American Indian Community House, Rigoberta|UN, 777 UN Plaza |

| | |Menchu Tum Foundation, Peace developemnt Fund, | |

Wednesday, 30 April 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Peoples’ communication for development: Towards a sustainable|Confederación de Pueblos Indígenas de Bolivia (CIDOB) |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in S/E |natural resource management and climate change adaptation |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |FAO and K-NET | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |The Second Decade for Poverty Eradication: Priorities of Indigenous |UN Non-Governmental Liasion Service (UN-NGLS) |Room E |

| |Peoples |Co-sponsors: CONGO Sub-Committee on Poverty Eradication| |

| | |(sub-committee of NGO Committee on Social Development) | |

Thursday, 1 May 2008

|TIME |Title of Event |Organizer |Location |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Challenges facing the youth of First Nations of Quebec |Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador |Conference Room 2 |

|Interpretation available in E/F | | | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Indigenous Peoples Spirituality and the Earth |International Federation of Social Workers |Conference Room 5 |

| | |Co-sponsors: | |

| | |VIVAT International, NGO Committee on the UN | |

| | |International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |Improving quality of life for Indigenous Children through |Indigenous Elders and Youth Council |Room E |

| |Indigenous/Traditional Knowledge |Co-sponsors: Spirit of the Youth, National Health | |

| | |Organization | |

|1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |“Survival of the Forgotten Ones” in the midst of Inherent Global |Ethiopian World Federation |DC2-13th Floor |

| |Climate change and Governmental - Corporate supported Gentrification |Co-sponsors: |Conference Room |

| |of bio-culturally diverse Afro-Indigenous Peoples |Free Mission Temple, New Wine International Theatre, |2 UN Plaza, 44th Street |

| |Communities and Sustainable livelihoods. |Sankofa International Academy, Interface Services and | |

| | |Yahshemabet Productions. | |

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