Programme of the Permanent Forum (UNPFII 15): Wednesday, May 18, 2016
2016-05-16
Organisation of work
10:00 - 13:00 Closed meeting for Permanent Forum members
15:00 - 18:00 Item 10 [Speaker’s list]
Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues considered by the Economic and Social Council and emerging issues
Discussion includes:
• High-level political forum on sustainable development
• Role of the Permanent Forum in the follow-up to and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties)
• Empowerment of indigenous women:
(a) sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women; and
(b) High-level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment
• Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in 2017
Side-events
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Mental health and suicide prevention among indigenous peoples CR 4 English/Spanish
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Amazon space of life and peace: sustainable development with identity CR 8 English/Spanish
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. “Choose Me” ( Documentary of Children in the Suriname Amazon) FF 600 English
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. The Imazighen: conflict, peace, and resolution FF 911 English/Spanish/French/Russian
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Experience and lessons from the Indigenous consultation process in Chile FF 1080 Spanish
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Hotinnisonii, Ojibwe, Arawak-Asian Indian and Russian "Mestisaje": Four Grandmother Perspectives on Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Peace via Mother language, Play/Arts and Games FF 1528 English
6.15 – 7.30 p.m. Towards the III Continental Summit of Indigenous Communication of Abya Yala CR 7 English/Spanish