E/2003/43
E/C.19/2003/22
Conferación Indigena Tayrona; Secretariat for the Convention on Biological
Diversity; World Bank; Associacao Awete Kaiwa; Halau Ku Mana (YOUTH);
Pacific Caucus; Yachay Wasi; Kmakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies,
University of Hawaii; Asociación de Criadores de Camelidos Andinos del Perú;
Asociación de Mujeres Indiginas Alpaqueras de la Region; Instituto Indígena de
Propriedad Intelectual; Brazil; Indigenous Environmental Network; and Alianza
Internacional de Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales de los Bosques Tropicales.
14.
At the same meeting, the Chairman also made a statement.
15. At the 10th meeting, on 16 May, the Forum continued its discussions of the
sub-item and heard statements by the observers of the following countries and
organizations: Indigenous Information Network; African Indigenous Women’s
Organization; Inuit Circumpolar Conference; Greenland/Denmark; OPIAC;
AMAAI; Habitatpro; Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Rights Organisation of Africa;
Faira Aboriginal Corporation; Warã Instituto Indigena; Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Commission; Indigenous Peoples African Coordinating Committee;
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; Universidad de las
Regiones Autonomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense; Organización Nacional
Indigena de Colombia; Asamblea Nacional Indigena Plural por la Autonomia;
UNDP; Ashaninka-AIDESEP; Ka Lāhui Hawaii; Russian Association of Indigenous
Peoples of the North; the Haudenosaunee Six Nations of Iroquois Confederacy of
Turtle Island (North America); Ibaloi Tribe, Philippines; Assembly of First Nations;
and Ogiek Rural Integral Program.
16. At the same meeting, statements were also made by the following members of
the Forum: Parshuram Tamang, Wilton Littlechild, Ayitegan Kouevi, Qin Xiaomei,
Ida Nicolaisen, Otilia Lux de Coti, Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca, Njuma
Ekundanayo, and Antonio Jacanamijoy.
C.
Health
17. At the 11th meeting, on 19 May, the Forum began its consideration of sub-item
4 (c) and Mililani Trask, member of the Forum, made a presentation.
18. At the same meeting, statements were made by the observers of the following
countries and organizations: Consultoría de los Pueblos Indígenos en el Norte de
Mexico; World Blind Union; Alaska Federation of Natives; Society for Threatened
Peoples; American Indian Law Alliance; Centre for Organization, Research and
Education, Canada; Boarding School Caucus; Confederacion de Nacionalidades
Indigenas del Ecuador, Mexico; Centro de Estudios Ayuranos, Guyana; FAIRA
Aboriginal Corporation; Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust; Indigenous Peoples
Coordinating Committee of Africa; National Council of Indigenous Women of
Ecuador; Indigenous Peoples Caucus on Sustainable Development; Arctic
Indigenous Region; Organizacion Nacional Indigeno de Colombia; Altai Regional
Public Organization of the Kumandin Peoples; Kamakaūokalani Center for
Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii; Hālau kū Māna and Siksika Nation.
19. At its 12th meeting, on 19 May, the Forum continued its discussion of the subitem and statements were made by the observers for the following countries and
organizations: Chickaloon Village (Nay’dini’aa’Na); Kenya Female Advisory
Organization; Pacific Caucus; Statistics Division of the Department of Economic
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