10 to 14 July 2017

Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Provisional agenda

Items on the provisional agenda of the tenth session include:

• Panel discussion and interactive dialogue on indigenous human rights defenders.
• Study and advice on good practices and challenges, including discrimination, in business and in access to financial services by indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women and indigenous persons with disabilities.
• Interactive dialogue with national human rights institutions and similar mechanisms.
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• Follow-up on thematic studies and advice.

See more details at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Pages/Session10.aspx. 

24 April to 5 May 2017

UN Headquarters, New York

Special Theme: “Tenth Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: measures taken to implement the Declaration”

See more details at https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/unpfii-sessions-2/sixteenth-session.html. 

Ahead of the 61^st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women on March 13 to 24, 20017 when one of the points of discussion is on the empowerment of indigenous women, UN Women has launched the Strategy for Inclusion and Visibility of Indigenous Women last December 2016. The strategy “crystalizes UN Women’s long-standing commitment to indigenous women. It serves as the organization’s first official frame of reference for bring­ing UN Women’s programming to scale in a coherent and consistent manner across the organization.”

You can download the strategy document here.

13 to 24 March

UN Headquarters, New York

Themes

• Priority theme: 
  Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work
• Review theme:
  Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls (agreed conclusions of the fifty-eighth session)
• Emerging issue/Focus area:
  The empowerment of indigenous women

See more at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw61-2017

Theme: “Indigenous Peoples and Education”

This year’s theme draws attention to the issue of indigenous peoples and education. Indigenous peoples continue to face challenges in accessing their right to education, in particular their right to education in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning and with full recognition of the diversity of their cultures. Highlights from the forthcoming publication “State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Volume III” on this topic of indigenous peoples and education will be discussed at a special event at the UN Headquarters event in observance of the International Day.- UN Division for Social Policy and Development Indigenous Peoples

Date: 9 to 20 May 2016

Venue: UN Headquarters, New York, US

Special theme: “Indigenous peoples: conflict, peace and resolution”

For more updates, visit https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/unpfii-sessions-2/unpfii-fifteenth-session.html

Date: 14 to 24 March 2016

Venue: UN Headquarters, New York, US

Themes

Priority theme:

Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development

Review theme:

The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls (agreed conclusions from the fifty-seventh session)

Emerging issue:

To be determined

For more updates, visit http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw60-2016

Fourteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 20 April to 1 May 2015, UN Headquarters, New York, USA.

For more details, please visit http://undesadspd.org/IndigenousPeoples/UNPFIISessions/Fourteenth.aspx