NGO Strategy Meeting on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 27 to 28 October 2008, Washington/USA
14.11.2008 |Anke Stock
The meeting aimed at finding strategies and solutions in order to implement the Declaration which was only adopted a year ago. The Declaration, which is non-binding, sets out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.
Special attention was given to upcoming international negotiations, in particular the meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan at the beginning of December 2008. Here many participants of the strategy meeting will meet again and lobby strongly for the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples as well as promote their way of live as most sustainable for the protection of the climate and the environment.
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