The Huffington Post today published an interview with Paula Palmer, the director of Cultural Survival's Global Response program, about the current Global Response campaign, to stop construction of a dam in Bangladesh that would displace thousands of Indigenous people and destroy their homeland. To read the article and interview, click here.
On November 16, 2010 the Third Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on indigenous issues which included a decision to organize a world Indigenous Peoples Conference in 2014.
At its sixty-fourth session, the United Nation's General Assembly discussed the findings of the Secretary General’s midterm report tracking the progress made in the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People so far. UN organizations, NGOs, and states contributed to the findings in the report.
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