A/71/229 (f) A panel discussion organized by Columbia University in New York in May 2016 on how armed conflict and peace negotiations affect indigenous peoples ; (g) A meeting by invitation of the Nordic Trust Fund of the World Bank in June 2016. The Special Rapporteur discussed the importance of safeguarding indigenous peoples’ rights in World Bank operations and programmes; (h) Regional seminars co-organized by the Special Rapporteur and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and the Asia Indigenous Peoples ’ Pact and Tebtebba on the impacts on investment treaties on the rights of indigenous peoples, in Lima for Latin America and in Bangkok for Asia, and a global seminar held in New York in May 2016, to obtain information for her second thematic report on this issue for the Human Rights Council in September 2016 ; (i) The regular sessions of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Special Rapporteur held meetings with members of these mechanisms on ways to maintain and increase the coordination among them. In parallel to the sessions, she also held meetings with several State delegations and indigenous organizations. B. Country visits and communications 3. Since her last report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur carried out three official country visits to Sápmi (Finland, Norway and Sweden) in August 2015, Honduras in November 2015 and Brazil in March 2016. The reports of these visits will be presented to the Human Rights Council in September 2016. 4. During the Special Rapporteur ’s visit to Sápmi, the Special Rapporteur highlighted her concerns on the land rights situation of the Sami people. She observed that the increased drive to mineral extraction and the development of renewable energy projects in Sápmi was one of the main threats against the realization of the rights of the Sami people. 5. In Honduras, the Special Rapporteur noted that a fundamental problem faced by indigenous peoples was the lack of full recognition, protection and enjoyment of their rights to ancestral lands and natural resources and impunity for the increasing violence against indigenous peoples. During the visit, the Special Rapporteur met with Berta Cáceres, an indigenous Lenca activist who was killed four months later (on 3 March 2016) because of her protests against the Agua Zarca dam project, even though she had been awarded precautionary protection measures from t he InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights. The Special Rapporteur will continue to monitor the investigations into Ms. Caceres’ murder and urges the State to hold the perpetrators accountable and break the vicious cycle of impunity. 6. Regarding Brazil, the Special Rapporteur expressed concern about the fact that that, in the eight years following the visit of her predecessor, there had been a disturbing absence of progress in the resolution of long -standing issues of key concern to indigenous peoples. She noted the convergence of various disconcerting developments endangering the rights of indigenous peoples. The risk of ethnocidal effects in such contexts could not be overlooked nor underestimated. The Special Rapporteur deeply regrets that, since her visit, killings and violent evictions of the Kaiowa Guarani peoples in Mato Grosso, some of which she visited, continue to take place. 16-13163 5/25