A/71/229 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted to the General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples pursuant to her mandate under Council resolutions 15/14 and 24/9. In the report, the Special Rapporteur provides a brief summary of her activities since her previous report to the Assembly (A/70/301) as well as a thematic analysis of conservation measures and their impact on indigenous peoples’ rights. II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur A. Participation in conferences 2. As part of the fulfilment of her mandate, the Special Rapporteur participated in a number of international and national conferences and dialogues, including: (a) The Paris Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2015. Togethe r with the Office of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, the Special Rapporteur advocated for the inclusion of human rights in the Paris decisions. Language whi ch recognizes the need to address human rights, including indigenous peoples ’ rights, in all climate change measure was included in the Paris Agreement ; (b) A symposium organized by the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law and the Native Women’s Association of Canada in January 2016 on missing and murdered indigenous women to discuss the national inquiry launched by the Government in December 2015; (c) The High-level Dialogue on the World Bank draft environmental and social standard on Indigenous Peoples in Addis Ababa in February 2016, which centred on the use of the term indigenous peoples and the requirement to obtain their free, prior and informed consent. The Special Rapporteur, together wi th the Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, subsequently wrote a joint letter to the World Bank to express concerns regarding the weakening of the safeguards, with proposals for remedial language; (d) A seminar on experiences in litigation of cases of violence against women and women’s access to justice in Guatemala in February 2016, invited by Alianza Rompiendo el Silencio and Lawyers without Borders, Canada. The Spe cial Rapporteur hailed the 26 February 2016 judgment in the Sepur Zarco case on sexual slavery of indigenous women by the Guatemalan military during the armed conflict as an important historical victory of justice for indigenous women and victims of sexual slavery worldwide; (e) An international seminar on indigenous jurisdiction and access to justice in Bogotá in February 2016 by invitation of the Attorney General ’s Office. Her intervention underlined the need to increase dialogue and cooperation in the harmonization of indigenous jurisdiction and the ordinary justice system; 4/25 16-13163