World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

Pre-Registration for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

Pre-registration is now OPEN for the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly, to be known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples which will take place on 22 September and on the afternoon of 23 September 2014 at UN Headquarters in New York. Please click here for more information.

The deadline to pre-register is: 23 July 2014

General Assembly Informal Consultations
 - World Conference on Indigenous Peoples -

Wednesday, 16 July and Monday, 18 August 2014
UN Headquarters, New York

Two informal consultations will be conducted by the President of the General Assembly. The first consultation will be held on Wednesday, 16 July, 2014 and will focus on the zero draft conference outcome document. A revised draft outcome document will be issued shortly after the consultation of that meeting and considered at a second and final consultation, on Monday, 18 August, 2014.

Pre-registration: Representatives of Indigenous Peoples who wish to attend the informal consultations, please inform the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at indigenous_un@un.org by Friday, 11 July for the first consultation and by Wednesday, 13 August for the second consultation. Please indicate the name of the organization, name of the representative and contacts including an email address.

To download the letter to Representatives of Indigenous Peoples please click here

Consultations on the HLPM/WCIP to begin

The President of the General Assembly (PGA) announced the date for the first round of consultation with Indigenous Peoples on the HPLM to be known as World Conference on Indigenous Peoples' Outcome Document. The consultation will be held next Tue., 3 June, at the UN Headquarters in New York. Indigenous Peoples who want to attend must register with the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues by Mon., 2 June 2014, 10 AM EST at: http://bit.ly/UNPFIIContact

UCTP Letter to the President of the General Assembly John William Ashe

01/27/2014


To: H.E. Ambassador John William Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda,
President, United Nations General Assembly

Via email & hand-delivered

Re: World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP)

Takahi (Greetings) Excellency: On behalf of the United Confederation of Taino People (UCTP), I am writing to you with great concern regarding the preparations for the High Level Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to be known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. The UCTP is an indigenous Caribbean regional organization extending through the Major and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Diaspora. The UCTP is a member of the Caribbean Organization of Indigenous Peoples (COIP) and an affiliate of the International Indian Treaty Council, an ECOSOC accredited indigenous, non-governmental organization representing indigenous peoples of North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.

The UCTP is particularly concerned with your hesitancy to reconfirm the appointment of Mr. John Henriksen (Sami) as the Indigenous co-coordinator (or co-facilitator) on an equal basis with a State representative in that role. The appointment of an indigenous co-coordinator in this process finds its precedent set by the President of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly H.E. Nassir AbdulazizAl‐Nasser (Qatar) in early 2012. With this in mind, we respectfully call upon you to reconfirm Mr. Henriksen in this role, which is a decision consistent with the standards articulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

 Please note that after consultation with our regional leadership and allies, the UCTP can only support the WCIP process if there is equal representation of Indigenous Peoples. In addition, please also note that should the WCIP move forward without equal representation, Indigenous Peoples who form part of the UCTP will call for the WCIP to be canceled.

In closing, Caribbean Governments are an historic ally to Indigenous Peoples since at least the UN International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on through the process to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We trust that we can continue to count on the region to move progressively toward fulfilling the goal of “Partnership in Action” as promoted by the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

Oma bahari (With respect),

Roger Hernandez-Moyet,
Board Secretary & Borikén Liaison

CC: UCTP Board & membership; Caribbean Organization of Indigenous Peoples; Caribbean Amerindian Development Organization; International Indian Treaty Council; Global Coordinating Committee of the WCIP; Latin American and Caribbean Regional Caucus to the WCIP

World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014

Áltá 2013 - in english

The Sami Parliament has invited representatives of indigenous peoples worldwide to an international preparatory conference in Alta, Norway, 8-12 June 2013.

Around 800 indigenous delegates and advisors, various observers and representatives of the world’s media are expected in Alta in June 2013 to prepare for the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) to be held in New York in 2014. 

The objective of the Alta 2013 preparatory conference on indigenous peoples is to help strengthen mutual cooperation, as well as identify and coordinate important problems and issues affecting the world’s indigenous peoples and the effort to safeguard their human rights ahead of the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) in 2014.

The Sami Parliament in Norway is hosting the Alta 2013 conference, and is responsible for the practical organisation of the event. The Sami Parliament is working closely with the (Indigenous Global Coordinating Group (GCG), created specifically in connection with the WCIP in 2014. The GCG is also responsible for the content and execution of the Alta 2013 preparatory conference.

The conference is open to accredited representatives of the media and delegates for indigenous peoples from the world’s nine different indigenous regions, their advisors and observers. The entire conference will be webcast live.  

More information about Áltá 2013

Conference programme	Cultural programme	Side-events
Registration	Contact Alta 2013	Important links
Info for the media	About WCIP 2014	NOTE: Work and residence in Norway