The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is an advisory body to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), with a mandate to discuss indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights.  

Twelfth Session of the Permanent Forum
20 - 31 May 2013
Trusteeship Council Chamber
Conference Building
UN Headquarters, New York
Review Year
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>>>Information for Participation

Provisional Agenda
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Proposed Organization of Work for the Twelfth Session
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>>>How to Participate
>>>How to access the Trusteeship Council Chamber
>>>Map of Meeting/Event Venues
>>>Documents
>>>Side Events
>>>Other Events / Caucuses
>>>Media Accreditation
>>>Logistical Information
>>>Meetings with the Special Rapporteur
>>>Speaker's List
>>>Statements
>>>Media and News
>>>Frequently Asked Questions

   On-site registration  

Upon arrival at the United Nations, each pre-registered NGO and IPO representative must register on site in order to obtain a grounds pass. Please remember that in order to register on site you must have already pre-registered online and be approved.  Please make sure to bring the confirmation letter that you receive after pre-registering as well as a photo identification document to get a UN ground-pass. It should be noted that for security reasons, only official documents (passports, state-issued driver’s license and similar documents), issued by recognized authorities are accepted. No other documents will be accepted.  

All participants will have to access the UN premises through the Visitor’s Entrance (1st Avenue and 45th Street).

Registration for grounds passes will take place in the Main Lobby as follows:

The Registration Desk will be closed every day from 12.30 to 2:00 p.m. accordingly; no ground-pass will be issued during this time. Exceptionally, registration may be conducted during lunch-break if a large number of people are still in line.

>>>Frequently Asked Questions regarding the 12th Session of the UNPFII

    The Permanent Forum is going PaperSmart:

In the interest of reducing the carbon footprint of the organization, the United Nations has introduced Paper Smart.  The information about the meetings will be available in various digital formats - through an e-Portal - with print-on-demand services in meetings rooms. 

What does this mean?

1) We will not have any documents available in the conference room during the Permanent Forum sessions.
2) All documents will be available electronically in all six official UN languages;
3) If you would like to have a hard copy, you can request a printed version from conference services, in any of the six official UN languages.

This will greatly reduce the amount of paper, without causing inconvenience to those who need printed copies of the documents. Click here for more information about PaperSmart.

  >>>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The twelfth session PaperSmart page will become active six weeks prior to the start of the Twelfth Session. 

Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops, tablets or other mobile devices to the meetings in order to access information and documents electronically.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please keep in mind that while the Permanent Forum sessions will take place in the Conference Room Building, rennovations of the UN complex are still ongoing and we may experience some space constraints. We do ask you for your understanding and cooperation.