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and Social Affairs; Na Koa Ikaika o Ka La Hui Hawai’i; Indigenous Peoples
Council on Biocolonialism; Indigenous Youth Caucus; International Indian Treaty
Council; Indigenous Environmental Network; Asemblea Nacional Indigena Plural
por la Autonomia; American Indian Law Alliance; Na Koa Ikaiko o Ka La Hui
Hawai’i; Native Children’s Survival, Teton Lakota Nation Treaty Council; Hawai’i
Institute for Human Rights; FENOCIN-Ecuador; Indigenous Peoples’ and Nations
Coalition — Alaska; Pit River Indian Nation; Alaska Community Action on Toxics;
Indigenous World Association; Assembly of First Nations; Instituto Tonanzin;
Frente Indígena Oaxaqueno; Mujeres Mayas de Jovel Maya’ik de Chiapas Mexico;
First Peoples Worldwide; Fundación para la Promoción de Conocimiento Indigena;
American Indian Treaty Council Information Center; Asociacion Nabguana;
Coordinadora Nacional de Pequenos y Medianos Productores de Guatemala;
Association of Limba Shaman; Kulung Rai Language and Cultural Development
Community; TRIPURA; Bangladesh Adivashi Forum; Parbatya Chattagram Jana
Samhati Samiti; Hill Tracts NGO Forum; Taungya; Trinamul; Committee on
Indigenous Health; Asia Caucus (Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance); Center for
Organization, Research and Education; American Indian Community House; Pine
Ridge Reservation; Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network; Lumad Peoples
Movement for Peace; Hill Watch Human Rights Forum; Assembly of First Nations;
Organization of Loacan Indigenous Peoples; Consejo de Anciano del Continiente de
Latino America; World Council of Churches; Defensoria de los Pueblos Indígenos
del Ecuador en America; Fundacíon para la Promocion de Conoc Indígenos; Brazil;
Aboriginal and Islander Commission; Tin Hinan; Indigenous Peoples Survival
Foundation; American Psychological Association; Yachak de Comunidad Ilumarí;
Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North; International Native
Tradition Interchange; and Pan American Health Organization.
20. At the 13th meeting, on 20 May, the Forum continued its discussions on the
sub-item of health and statements were made by the observers for the following
organizations: T’suu Tina Nation; Retrieve Foundation; Fundacion de Gente
Indigena Yanomami; Health Unlimited; Associacao Awaete Kaiwa; Jharkhandis
Organisation for Human Rights; Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indigenas; Casa
Nativa Tampa Allgo Peru; the Navajo Nation; and World Bank.
21. At the same meeting, statements were made by the following members of the
Forum: Mililani Trask, Wilton Littlechild, Otilia Lux de Coti, Njuma Ekundanayo,
Qin Xiaomei, Ida Nicolaisen, Parshuram Tamang and Antonio Jacanamijoy.
D.
Human rights
22. At its 14th meeting, on 20 May, the Forum considered sub-item 4 (d) and an
interactive dialogue was conducted between the Working Group on Indigenous
Populations and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, as well as Mrs. Daes, the permanent member of the Working Group on
Indigenous Populations, and the following members of the Forum: Marcos Matias
Alonso, Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca, Ayitegau Kouevi, Wilton Littlechild, Otilia
Lux de Coti, Ida Nicolaisen, Qin Xiaomei, Zinaida Strogalschikova, and Mililani
Trask.
23. Statements were made by the observers of the following countries and
organizations: Finland; Mexico; Nigeria; Norway; Indigenous People’s Participants
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