As 22 April 2008 / 10.

28 am
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
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Location

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

UNDP EEG/SGP consultation with indigenous

peoples on climate change and biodiversity
conservation

UNDP/ EEG / GEF SGP

Co-sponsors:
UNDP Environment & Energy Group,
GEF Small Grants Programme, UNDP
Equator Initiative

Conference Room 2

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Indigenous Peoples Leading the Way on Climate

Change

Conference Room 8

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Cambio Climtico y Desertificacin en Los Andes

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Symposium on the Implementation of United Nations

Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples

10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

We the Indigenous Peoples: Self/Portraits - A

photo project with and for indigenous peoples.

Inuit Circumpolar Council

Co-sponsors: Inuit Circumpolar Council
Canada; Inuit Circumpolar Council Greenland
CAPAJ and the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights
Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the
United Nations, Permanent Mission of
Namibia to the United Nations, Society
for Threatened Peoples
International and Earth Peoples
Secretariat of the Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues

TIME

Title of Event

Organizer

Location

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Interpretation
available in S/E
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Launching of IWGIAs yearbook, The Indigenous

World 2008

International Work Group for

Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

Conference Room 2

Indigenous Women and Climate Change

The Netherlands Centre for Indigenous

Peoples (NCIV)

Conference Room 1

Global Dialogue: Climate Change and Indigenous

UNDP - Regional Initiative on

Conference Room 7

Room E
Library Auditorium
Dag Hammarskjld

United Nation Club

Room (GA-37)

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Peoples
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Indigenous Youth Issues and Challenges from

Global and Regional Perspectives

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Implementing ILO Convention No. 169 in Nepal-Towards an Inclusive State

The Potential Role of a United Nations University
Traditional Knowledge Institution.

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Increasing indigenous peoples voices in the

Commission on SustainableDevelopment (CSD)

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Share your Story at Indigenous Portal.com

6.05 p.m. -9:00 p.m.

Welcome and Opening of the Indigenous exhibit In

Celebration of the Adoption of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Peoples' Rights and

Development
Taking it Global Canadian Heritage
Co-sponsors: Global Action Youth
Network; Mikmaq Native Friendship
Centre (Canada); Athabaska Chipewyan
First Nation; Eskasoni First Nation;
Canadian Heritage
International Labour Organization
(ILO)
United Nation University Institute of
Advance Studies in conjunction with
the Christensen Fund
Division for Sustainable
Development/UN-DESA
Indigenous ICT Task Force
Co-sponsors: Incomindios Switzerland,
Na Koa Ikaika o ka Lahui Hawaii
Secretariat of the Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues , the UN
Department of Public Information and
the NGO Committee on the UN
International Decade of the Worlds
Indigenous Peoples

Room D

Library Auditorium
Dag Hammarskjld
DC2-23rd Floor
Conference Room
2 UN Plaza, 44th Street
DC2-22nd Floor
Conference Room 2227
2 UN Plaza, 44th Street
DC2-13th Floor
Conference Room
2 UN Plaza, 44th Street
Visitors Lobby, UNHQ

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

TIME

Title of Event

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Location

10:00 a.m. -11.25 a.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E
10:00 a.m. -11.25 a.m.
Interpretation
available in E/F
11:35 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Interpretation
available in S/E

Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and

Biodiversity

Tebtebba Foundation

Conference Room 2

Expert Panel on Global TB initiatives --How do we

empower our people?

Assembly of First Nations

Co-sponsors: World Health
Organization
UNAM Mexico Multicultural Program

Conference Room 9

Report on the indicators of development and the

well-being of worlds indigenous peoples

Conference Room 2

11:35 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E

Comunidades Guaranies en condiciones de

servidumbre en el Chaco Boliviano

Ministerio de Justicia de Bolivia

Co-sponsors: Confederacin de Pueblos
Indgenas de Bolivia (CIDOB);
Asamblea del Pueblo Guaran (APG);
Consejo de Capitanes de Chuquisaca
(CCCH).
Department of Public Administration
and Development Management of
UNDESA in partnership with the
Secretariat of the Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues
Co-sponsors: Permanent Mission of
Australia to the United Nations and
Otavalo Municipality, Ecuador.

Conference Room 9

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E/F/P

Managing Indigenous Local Governments:

Balancing Traditions with Emerging Challenges

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E

Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: From Bali

to New York

International Alliance of Indigenous

and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical
Forest

Conference Room 8

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E

Developing Community FPIC Procedures:

Presenting the community vision for engagement to
Secure Indigenous Rights?

Conference Room 5

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Climate change, and bio-cultural diversity: A

Caribbean First Nations Perspective

Center for International Environmental

Law
Co-sponsors:
Forest Peoples Programme and
Tebtebba Foundation
United Confederation of Taino People
Co-sponsors: The Government of
Dominica (tentative); Consejo General
de Tainos Borincanos,
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 the Secretariat of
the Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues

Library Auditorium
Dag Hammarskjld

6.15pm 8pm

Folklor ensemble concert "Paabel" to celebrate the

7th session of the UNPFII

Permanent Mission of Estonia to the

United Nations

Library Auditorium
Dag Hammarskjld

Conference Room 2

DC2-13th Floor
Conference Room
2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Water: Spirit, Sustenance, and Survival

Refreshments
served

6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.

Refreshments
served

UNEP and Indigenous Peoples: Partnership in

Promoting the Environment and Human Well-being

Thursday 24 April 2008

TIME
Title of Event
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Interpretation
available in S/E

The Revitalization of threatened languages

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E

Indigenous Peoples Self-Determined Development

of Development with Identity

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation

Traditional Knowledge, Traditional and Culture

expressions

Seventh Generation Fund for Indian

Development
Co-sponsors: American Indian Law
Alliance, Mainyoito Pastoralists
Integrated Development Organization,
Native Youth Coalition, Traditional
Circle of Indian Elders and Youth,
Seventh Generation Fund for Indian
Development
UNEP and TEBTEBBA

777 United Nations

Plaza, 2nd Floor,
Corner of 44th Street &
1st Ave.) New York,
NY 10017

Organizer

Location

UNICEF
Co-sponsors:
United Nations Childrens Fund
(UNICEF); Indigenous Intercultural
University of the German Technical
Cooperation (GTZ); Indigenous Fund
(Fondo Indgena); International
Indigenous Womens Forum (Foro
Internacional de Mujeres Indgenas)
(IIWF/FIMI); Spanish Agency for
Development Cooperation (Agencia
Espaola de Cooperacin Internacional
para el Desarrollo - AECID)
Tebtebba Foundation
Co-sponsors:
CADPI, Arid Lands Institute and The
Christensen Fund

Conference Room 2

WIPO

Conference Room 5

"Drew Room",
Basement of the
Church Centre
777 UN Plaza, corner
of East 44th street and
1st Avenue
(entrance on 44th
Street).

Conference Room 7

available in S/E
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Interpretation
available in S/E
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Wood based biofuels and genetically engineered

tress

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

The Future for Indigenous Australian Higher

Education
Bringing our languages home again through
community-based programs ~ American
Indian/Native Hawaiian language revitalization

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Indigenous Peoples and the Private Sector

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Indigenous Peoples: Contributions to humanity past

and present.

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Heeding Indigenous Knowledge and creating

opportunities in the climate change response

Friday, 25 April 2008

TIME
Title of Event

The Global Justice Ecology Project

Co-sponsors: Ikatan Cendekiawan
Tanimbar Indonesia (ICTI) and Global
Forest Coalition
National Indigenous Higher Education
Network of Australia
Cultural Survival
Co-sponsors: Euchee/Yuchi Language
Program; Center for Hawaiian Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa;
National Alliance to Save Native
Languages; Northern Arapaho Council
of Elders
Tribal Link Foundation
Co-sponsors: Secretariat of the
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
She Clan of the Yamassee Native
American Muurs'
Co-sponsors: Unity Washita/w de
Dugdahmoundyah Nation of Naga
Muurs (Moors) in treaty with the Great
Seal 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 (Muurs),
the Kemetic Zulu Nation of Moors, the
Nesehu Clan of Moors and the (I.S.I.S.)
Indigenous Sovereign International
Society
Australian Mission
to the United
Nations

Organizer

Conference Room 9

Room E
DC2-23rd Floor
Conference Room
2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

Conference Room 3

DC2-13th Floor
Conference Room
2 UN Plaza, 44th Street

Permanent Mission of
Australia to the United
Nations, Level 33 150
East 42nd Street

Location

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E

Bringing the Declaration Home: The Case of the

Maya of Southern Belize

Rainforest Foundation
Co-sponsors: University of Arizonas
Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy
Program, Maya Leaders Alliance
(MLA); United Nations NonGovernmental Liasion Service;
Sarstoon Temash Institute for
Indigenous Management; Julia Cho
Society.
Forest Peoples Programme
Co-sponsors:
Tebtebba Foundation, IPACC

Conference Room 2

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E

REDD, Avoided Deforestation Policies and

Indigenous Peoples: potential impacts and possible
strategies

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Climate Change in the 4 regions of the Coordination

of French Speaking Indigenous Peoples

Coordination Autochtone Francoohone

(CAF)
Co-sponsors: International Work Group
for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

Room E

Organizer

Location

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

and Climate Change: Dimensions of the Global
Triple Crisis
Indigenous Writers on Writing

Tebtebba Foundation and International

Forum on Globalization

Conference Room 2

Muhlenberg College

Conference Room 5

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Climate Change and Reindeer Herding

Conference Room 8

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Climate Change, Displacement and Mobile

Indigenous Peoples

Saami Council
Co-sponsors:
International Centre for Reindeer
Husbandry; Association of World
Reindeer Herders
World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous
Peoples (WAMIP)
Co-sponsors:
The Standing Committee of the Dana
Declaration for Mobile Peoples and
Conservation; International Fund for

Monday, 28 April 2008

TIME
Title of Event
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E

Conference Room 8

Room E

Agricultural Development
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Religious Freedom Lockdown: Justice, Jails, and

Families

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Ancient wisdom, bio-cultural diversity of indigenous

peoples en the condition of climate change and
global warming

10.00 a.m.-6:00 p. m.

Exhibit & Sale of Indigenous Crafts

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

TIME
Title of Event

Flying Eagle Woman Fund

Co-sponsors:
Peace Development Fund
Yurta Mira World Yurta of Peace Inc.
Co-sponsors:
Ministry of External Affairs of Yakutia;
Ministry of Protection of Enviorenment
United Methodist Office for the UN,
Women's Division
Co-sponsor:
Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues

Library Auditorium
Dag Hammarskjld

Organizer

Location

DC2-13th Floor
Conference Room
2 UN Plaza, 44th Street
777 United Nations
Plaza, 2nd Floor,
Corner of 44th Street &
1st Ave.) New York,
NY 10017

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E/F

Indigenous Languages and the Media

UNESCO

Conference Room 2

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E/F

Small Grants, Big Results: the UN Voluntary Fund

for Indigenous Populations & the UN Trust Fund for
the Second International Decade of the World's
Indigenous People

Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on

Indigenous Issues and the Office of the
UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights

Conference Room 4

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E

Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Women

Conference Room 5

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Politics, Inter-tribal Conflicts and Ethnic Cleansing

in Africa and Indigenous Challenges

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Nuclear, Coal, and Oil: Climate Change at its Best

Asian Indigenous Women's Network

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
Safe the Community Common Initiative
Group
Co-sponsors: SAFCOM CIG
Flying Eagle Woman Fund

Room E

Library Auditorium

Co-sponsors:
Peace Development Fund
Native Women's Association of Canada
(NWAC) and the Indigenous Women's
Forum (FIMI)
Saami Council

Dag Hammarskjld

3:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.

Interpretation
available in S/E
4:35 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Violence Against Indigenous Women

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
Co-sponsor:
Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues

777 United Nations

Plaza, 2nd Floor,
Corner of 44th Street &
1st Ave.) New York,
NY 10017

6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.

Sovereignty, Indigenous Peoples and the

Environment

The Flying Eagle Woman Fund

Co-sponsors: American Indian
Community House, Rigoberta
Menchu Tum Foundation, Peace
developemnt Fund,

United Methodist
Office for the UN,
777 UN Plaza

Organizer

Location

Confederacin de Pueblos Indgenas de

Bolivia (CIDOB)
Co-sponsors:
FAO and K-NET
UN Non-Governmental Liasion Service
(UN-NGLS)
Co-sponsors: CONGO Sub-Committee
on Poverty Eradication (sub-committee
of NGO Committee on Social
Development)

Conference Room 2

Thursday, 1 May 2008

TIME
Title of Event

Organizer

Location

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Assembly of First Nations of Quebec

Conference Room 2

Recent developments in Saami Rights Issues

Wednesday, 30 April 2008

TIME
Title of Event
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Interpretation
available in S/E
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Indigenous Peoples communication for

development: Towards a sustainable natural
resource management and climate change
adaptation
The Second Decade for Poverty Eradication:
Priorities of Indigenous Peoples

Challenges facing the youth of First Nations of

Conference Room 2

Conference Room 2

Room E

Interpretation
available in E/F

Quebec

and Labrador

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Indigenous Peoples Spirituality and the Earth

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Improving quality of life for Indigenous Children

through Indigenous/Traditional Knowledge

1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Survival of the Forgotten Ones in the midst of

Inherent Global
Climate change and Governmental - Corporate
supported Gentrification
of bio-culturally diverse Afro-Indigenous Peoples
Communities and Sustainable livelihoods.

International Federation of Social

Workers
Co-sponsors:
VIVAT International, NGO Committee
on the UN International Decade of the
Worlds Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Elders and Youth Council
Co-sponsors: Spirit of the Youth,
National Health Organization
Ethiopian World Federation
Co-sponsors:
Free Mission Temple, New Wine
International Theatre, Sankofa
International Academy, Interface
Services and Yahshemabet Productions.

Conference Room 5

Room E

DC2-13th Floor
Conference Room
2 UN Plaza, 44th Street