E/2003/43
E/C.19/2003/22
Indígenas; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; Instituto Indígena
Brasileiro; Defensoria de los Pueblos Indígenas del Ecuador en America; Tebtebba
Foundation; African Indigenous and Minority Peoples Organization; South Asia
Indigenous Women Forum and Nepal Tamong Women Ghedurg; Ogiek Rural
Integral Program; the Ibazoi Tribe in Cordeillera of the Philippines; Universidad de
las Regiones Autonomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense; Hmong International
Human Rights Watch; Armando Ualbuena for La Organizacion Nacional Indigena
de Colombia; Centro de Promocion Para el Desarrollo Comunal Init; Coordinadora
Indígena Campesina Agroforestales del Peru; Peace Campaign Group; Indigenous
Peoples African Coordinating Committee; Grandmothers of Mother Earth; and
World Summit on Information Society.
9.
At the same meeting, a statement was made by the Director of the Division for
Sustainable Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
10. Also at the same meeting, the following members of the Forum made
interventions: Antonio Jacanamijoy, Otilia Lux de Coti, Marcos Matias Alonso,
Ayitegan Kouevi, Ida Nicolaisen, Zinaida Strogalschikova, Mililani Trask, Njuma
Ekundanayo and Wilton Littlechild.
B.
Environment
11. At the 8th meeting, on 15 May, Parshuram Tamang, member of the Forum,
made a statement on sub-item 4 (b).
12. At the same meeting, statements were made on the sub-item by the observers
for the following countries and organizations: Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO); Na Koa Ikaika o Ka La Hui Hawai’i; Indigenous Peoples
Council on Biocolonialism; Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la
Cuenca Amazónica; Comunidad Tayja Saruta Sarayacu; Asia Caucus; Buffalo River
Dene Nation; the Seventh Generation Fund; Indian Confederation of Indigenous and
Tribal Peoples; United Native Nations Truth Network and Voice Confederation;
Onyota ‘A:Ka Haudenosaunee Oneida Indian Territory and Youth; Asia-Pacific
Indigenous Youth Network; American Indian Community Health; Comisión
Jurídica; Asociación de la Juventud Indígena; Indigenous Women of the Americas;
Agogo Traditional Area of the Ashanti in Ghana; Partnership for Indigenous
People’s Environment; International Oil Working Group; Confederaciones
Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador; Defensoria de los Pueblos Indígenas del
Ecuador en America; National Aboriginal Forestry Association; Centre for
Organization, Research and Education; International Indigenous People’s Think
Tank; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Mexico; Movement for the
Survival of the Ogoni People; Bangladesh Indigenous People’s Forum; Parbatya
Chaftagram Jana Samhati Samiti; Tongya; Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios;
and Saami Council.
13. At the 9th meeting, on 16 May, the Forum continued its discussions on the subitem and statements were made by the observers for the following countries and
organizations: Indonesia; Fundación para la Promocion de Canoc Indígena; Saami
Council; Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance; Peace Campaign Group; International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Sage Council; Tonantzin Land Institute;
Tonantierra; Seventh Generation Fund; Frente Indigena Oaxaqueño; Binacional;
Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus for Sustainable Development; Tebtebba Foundation;
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