Maribeth Bugtong

Maribeth Bugtong

UNPFII23 (2024)

15 April 2024, 6:05 am

15-26 April 2024

UN Headquarters, New York

Theme: "Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination in the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: emphasizing the voices of Indigenous youth”

To know more, please visit https://social.desa.un.org/issues/indigenous-peoples/unpfii/23rd-session

CSW68 (2024)

11 March 2024, 6:01 am

11 to 22 March 2024

UN Headquarters, New York

Themes:
Priority theme: Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective

 

Review theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-third session)
 

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is adopted

19 January 2023, 3:54 am

The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework during its 15th meeting in Montreal, Canada last December 7-19, 2022.

The Framework has significant references to indigenous peoples and acknowledged the important roles and contributions of indigenous peoples and local communities as custodians of biodiversity and partners in the conservation, restoration and sustainable use.

The Framework also emphasized that its successful implementation will depend on ensuring gender equality and empowerment of women and girls and reducing inequalities.

The full text of the Global Biodiversity Framework is available at https://bit.ly/3WuJhoY.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted General recommendation No. 39 on the rights of indigenous women and girls on October 26, 2022.

Texts in major langauges of the General recommendation is accessible at https://bit.ly/3Wfw9DG

UNPFII 22nd Session

17 April 2023, 6:08 am

17-28 April 2023

UN Headquarters, New York

Theme: “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”

For more details, please visit https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/unpfii-22session-2023.html.

CSW67 (2023)

6 March 2023, 6:01 am

6 to 17 March 2023

UN Headquarters, New York

Themes

  • Priority theme: Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls
  • Review theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-second session)

For more details, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw67-2023

CSW66 (2022)

14 March 2022, 3:35 am

The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 14 to 25 March 2022. Due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, CSW66 will take place in a hybrid format. All side events and parallel events will be fully virtual.

For more details, please visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw66-2022

Global Political Declaration of Indigenous Women

22 September 2021, 7:40 am
“The Earth is our mother. From her we get our life, and our ability to live. It is our responsibility to care for our mother and in caring for our mother, we care for ourselves. Women, all females, are a manifestation of Mother Earth in human form.”

– Indigenous Women on the Beijing Declaration (1995)

We, more than 500 Indigenous Women, from the seven sociocultural regions of the world, including elders and youth, urban and rural dwellers, knowledge holders and healers, Indigenous Women with disabilities, leaders, activists and artists, members of the LGBTQ+ community, Indigenous Women in government and UN agencies, with observers from various support groups, met at the Second World Conference of Indigenous Women, with the theme, “Together for wellbeing and Mother Earth,” from August 12 to September, 2021.

The Conference aimed to further strengthen the global Indigenous Women’s movement and agree on a global agenda that would safeguard our well-being by advancing the recognition and realization of our collective and individual rights. The Second World Conference of Indigenous Women was organized with the active participation of regional networks of Indigenous Women who led broader consultations with their members and networks in preparation for their e­ffective engagement in the Conference.

You can read the full political declaration here

Second World Conference of Indigenous Women (2WCIW)

12 August 2021, 6:14 am
For more details, please visit https://worldconferenceiw.org/. You can also submit your idea to build the event's agenda to the same link.
Open call from June 21 to July 7

Call for Application: FIMI Leadership Award

18 June 2021, 6:07 am

Faces of resilience: Leaders for change

Since 2013, the International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI) has awarded its “Leadership Award” in recognition of women or groups of Indigenous Women who, through their work, commitment and responsibility, bring about significant changes for their community or beyond.

In this year 2021, we dedicate FIMI’s Leadership Award in honour of the resilience, collective strength and leadership of Indigenous Women organized in the fight against COVID-19.

Please check the details at https://bit.ly/35ynjJG