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Monthly Meeting: NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples monthly meeting – June 18, 2020

Friends;

It is our most sincere hope that you and yours are keeping well and able to survive the very wide-ranging effects of the pandemic on the country as a whole, but especially for Indigenous Peoples who are in many cases being more drastically affected.

Our meeting will be virtual. We will meet this coming Thursday, June 18th, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. We hope to see you confirm that you and yours are well.

You will find the agenda and Zoom link for the meeting below.

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Agenda

1. Moment of Silence in Honor of the Land we are on and the Native People of this land

2. Introductions

3. Welcome and Review of Agenda

4. Meeting minutes of May 21, 2020

5. Report of the Executive Committee

6. Presentation – Update from Minnesota:

Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons, Ojibwe Elder

7. Announcements

8. Next meeting: July 16, 2020

Daniel LeBlanc
Communications Secretary
NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

CoNGO Notes: For more information on the NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, visit facebook.com/NGOCoRIP/

20th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Provisional agenda of the twentieth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:

1. Election of officers

2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work

3. Discussion on the theme “Peace, justice and strong institutions: the role of indigenous peoples in implementing Sustainable Development Goal 16”

4. Discussion on the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum (economic and social development, culture, environment, education, health and human rights), with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

5. Dialogues:

(a) Dialogue with indigenous peoples;

(b) Dialogue with Member States;

(c) Dialogue with the United Nations agencies, funds and programmes;

(d) Human rights dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;

(e) Regional dialogues;

(f) Thematic dialogues;

6. Follow-up to the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

7. Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues considered by the Economic and Social Council and emerging issues, specifically challenges related to pandemics and responses to them.

8. Provisional agenda of the twenty-first session of the Permanent Forum

9. Adoption of the report of the Permanent Forum on its twentieth session

CoNGO NOTES: For information about the work of CoNGO and its NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, visit its Facebook account here. 

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