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The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII or PFII) is the UN's central coordinating body for matters relating to the concerns and rights of the world's indigenous peoples. There are more than 370 million indigenous people (also known as native, original, aboriginal and first peoples) in some 70 countries worldwide.
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The Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) was a subsidiary body within the structure of the United Nations.It was established in 1982, and was one of the six working groups overseen by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the main subsidiary body of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (defunct 2006).
[4] The forum is preceded by resolution 69/16 of November 18, 2014, titled "Program of Activities for the Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent" with the aim of creating such an organism. It is composed of five members selected by governments and five appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. [2]
11 February 1991: World Uyghur Congress [29] Gilgit Baltistan: 20 September 2008: Gilgit Baltistan Democratic Alliance [30] Guam: 31 July 2020: Government of Guam [1] [23] Haratin: 18 September 2011: Initiative de Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste en Mauritanie [31] Hmong: 2 February 2007: Congress of World Hmong People [32] Iranian Kurds ...
At the Seventh Session of the Permanent Forum, held from 21 April to 2 May 2008, it was recommended that: [1] " ..the United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, university research centres and relevant United Nations agencies conduct further studies on the impacts of climate change and climate change responses on indigenous ...
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized agencies, the eight functional commissions, and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.
B. List of permanent representatives of Barbados to the United Nations in Geneva; Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations in New York