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High-level commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was held on 17 May 2012. Click here to view more information on this commemoration.

On September 13, 2007, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the General Assembly. This decision comes as a result of more than twenty years of work by indigenous peoples and the United Nations system.


	Twelfth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues United Nations Headquarters, New York City, 20-31 May 2013

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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Proposed Organization of Work for the Twelfth Session
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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:

Sunday 19 May	12.00p.m. to 5:00p.m.
Monday 20 May	8.00 a.m. to 3:45p.m.
Tuesday 21 May	9.00a.m. to 3:45p.m.
Remainder of the Session	9:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m.

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.

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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.

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Post-2015 and Indigenous Peoples: E-discussion

Despite many of the successes of the MDGs, they have not managed to fully address the values and principles outlined in the Millennium Declaration, particularly in relation to human rights and equality. Addressing inequalities in the post-2015 development agenda means looking at both equality of opportunities and outcomes (or lack thereof), and entrenched structural factors, that perpetuate various forms of inequalities such as discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, age, location, etc.

In the latest report of the State of the World’s Ingenious Peoples, it is noted that, “Indigenous peoples face systemic discrimination and exclusion from political and economic power; they continue to be over-represented among the poorest, the illiterate, the destitute; they are displaced by wars and environmental disasters; indigenous peoples are dispossessed of their ancestral lands and deprived of their resources for survival, both physical and cultural; they are even robbed of their very right to life.” It is therefore critical that the rights and needs of indigenous peoples are discussed and addressed in the next development agenda.

The e-discussion on Inequalities and Indigenous Peoples in the Post-2015 Development Agenda begins on 27 November and will continue for three weeks. It is the sixth in the series of discussions, and aims to galvanize dialogue and discussion in framing the post-2015 agenda. This discussion on Indigenous Peoples is co-moderated by UNICEF and the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (SPFII).

The online platform for the e-discussion on addressing inequalities was launched at the beginning of October with the first discussion focusing on gender inequality, followed by a discussion on gender-based violence on 17 October. The website http://www.worldwewant2015.org/inequalities is open to the public, following a simple registration process.

The e-discussions are a series of time-bound, moderated dialogues designed to seek the views of a broad range of stakeholders including governments, UN and other development agencies, civil society, philanthropic organizations, the private sector, and most importantly, the general public. The recommendations emerging from the e-discussions will be part of a synthesis report that will be presented to a high-level meeting in Denmark in February 2013 on Inequalities. The report will also be provided to the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda appointed by the UN Secretary-General.

To participate, representatives of civil society, academia, the UN, governments, the private sector and others are invited to visit the discussion forum at: http://www.worldwewant2015.org/inequalities to follow the discussion and post a response. The site is available in English, French and Spanish and contributions are welcomed in any of the sixty languages supported by Google Translate. For those unable to access the site, replies may be emailed to inequalities@worldwewant2015.org.

Discussion website:

http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/284745

Further enquiries: inequalities@worldwewant2015.org.