UNPFII Twenty-Second Session: 17-28 April 2023

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Home Social Development Issues Indigenous Peoples United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) UNPFII Twenty-second Session: 17-28 April 2023 UNPFII Twenty-Second Session: 17-28 April 2023 Theme: “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”. Dates: 17-28 April 2023 Location: United Nations Headquarters

International Day Of The World’s Indigenous Peoples 2023: INDIGENOUS YOUTH AS AGENT OF CHANGE, OFFICIAL EVENT, TODAY

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Virtual commemoration on 9 August 2023* (9-10:30 am EST/New York Time) The International Day observance will take place online on Wednesday, 9 August 2023.

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 9 August

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Indigenous youth as agents of change for self-determination Violations of the rights of the world's Indigenous Peoples have become a persistent problem, sometimes because of a historical burden from their colonization backgrounds and others because of the contrast with a constantly changing society.

Statement on the end of the Commitment Compliance Policy grace period

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31st Jul 2023 The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) grace period for committed companies to set targets comes to an end.

Statement by David Cooper Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity

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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 9 August 2023 Indigenous Youth as Agents of Change for Self-determination

Amazon countries advocate science-based strengthening of ACTO

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During the opening of the Amazon Summit on Tuesday (8), the Secretary General of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), Alexandra Moreira, said that the Belém Declaration is a bold commitment to the integral vision that has dealt with understanding the Amazon in its broadest dimension as a complex biome that requires management measures and that has faced a series of threats...

EU Climate Action

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Here the July issue of our newsletter prepared by the European Commission, the EU executive body. Here are the latest EU climate news highlights.

Regional perspectives on a legally binding instrument on business and human rights

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SAVE THE DATE for the second roundtable of our 3-part webinar series Bridging the gap: A stronger Binding Treaty for all, leading up to the 9th Intergovernmental Working Group session to elaborate a legally binding instrument on business and human

UN pushes disarmament talks amid fears that drums of nuclear war are beating again

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5 August 2023Peace and Security As United Nations-led talks on nuclear disarmament continued in Geneva, New York and Vienna, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Sunday that “the drums of nuclear war are beating once again”.

Article 19: Global Expression Report

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The Global Expression Report (GxR) is an annual look at the right to free expression and information across the world. The GxR metric tracks freedom of expression across 161 countries via 25 indicators to create a score between 0 and 100 for every country. That score places it in an expression category.

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