4th Meeting, 19th Session Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)

Good afternoon, everybody.
Nabu.
It's my pleasure to introduce item 12 on the agenda, proposals to be submitted to the Human Rights Council for consideration and approval.
As a subsidiary body of the Human Rights Council, the expert Mechanism on the rights of Indigenous peoples has the mandate to provide and make decision proposals to the council.
Our debate on Item 12 is dedicated to such proposals.
This is an extremely important task because those proposals will be subsequently reflected in the agenda of the Human Rights Council.
I This specific item on the agenda seeks to foster a participatory process offering a platform to allow the indigenous peoples, member states, and other interested parties be able to present contributions today to proposals to be reviewed by the council.
I'd like to assure you that your contributions are essential in this process.
I'd like to particularly call for my colleagues, the experts to actively participate in this issue.
This is a unique opportunity to transform our discussions from the last four days into concrete proposals that we would like the council to consider.
We will now move to the list of speakers for this item.
So we'll open the list now and we're going to call on that.
Mr.
Pasquila Africa Chagostan community.
Chair.
Before turning into my proposals, I wish to make one observation.
Too often, the Chigusian people are treated as our presence in these discussions is irrelevant.
We anticipate hearing once again that Mauritius is a multicultural and multiracial state and therefore has no indigenous peoples and that the ICG advisory opinion settled the future of the Chigoz Archipelago.
Yet neither argument answers the question before this expert mechanism.
What are the rights of the Chegusian people as an indigenous people? The advisory opinion addressed the decolonization of Maures.
It did not determine the indigenous rights of the Chegian people.
Likewise, a multicultural state cannot invoke diversity to deny the existence of an indigenous people, nor can nationality be used to erase indigenous identity.
Our right to self identification belongs to us, not to the states that speak about us.
The Chigosan experience exposes a gap in international law.
Too often, decolonization and sovereignty are pursued without the meaningful participation of the indigenous peoples most affected.
For this reason, I respectfully urge ER to recommend that the Human Rights Council, first, affirm that decolonization must never come at the expense of indigenous rights.
And that the UN rape must be fully implemented alongside any decolorization process.
Second, encourage all United Nations mechanisms to integrate the principles of self identification, free prior and informed consent, restitution, cultural continuity, and the right to return whenever indigenous peoples are affected by territorial disputes or decolonization.
Third, Strengthen en rips country engagement mandate by encouraging direct dialogue with indigenous peoples and ensuring they are not excluded from decisions affecting their ancestral lands.
Justice for the Chegsian people requires more than resolving questions.
Thank you very much for your statement.
We're now going to move on to the indigenous determination of Health Alliance.
Indigenous Determinants of Health Alliance.
Yes.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
This is a joint statement on behalf of the Indigenous Determinants of Health Alliance, the National Indian Health Board, Azul Network, and Akal El Hajiub.
We welcome this discussion on proposals to be submitted to the Human Rights Council for its consideration and approvals.
One of the greatest barriers to indigenous rights implementation is not the absence of international standards, but the fragmentation of institutions and policies.
This fragmentation also undermines indigenous knowledge systems and practices, including indigenous midwifery, which depend upon indigenous governance, culture, lands, knowledge systems, and health systems working together.
Over the past four years, the Forum on Indigenous issues has progressively developed the Indigenous Determinants of Health framework, demonstrating how policy coherence across institutions directly affects the realization of indigenous people's rights, grounded in UNDRIP and informed by other relevant standards, the indigenous determinants of Health framework reflects indigenous worldviews and priorities.
We respectfully encourage MRIP to adopt the Indigenous Determinants of Health framework as a practical indigenous analytical framework to support the future work, including the proposals it submits to the Human Rights Council.
Building upon an indigenous developed framework that has progressed through four successive permanent form on indigenous issues studies that would enable NRIP to build on an established body of indigenous led work while fully respecting the distinct mandates of both mechanisms.
It would also provide the Human Rights Council member states and agencies with more coherent and practical guidance while demonstrating how complementary work by the permanent form and MRIP can strengthen policy coherence across the United Nations system, co.
Thank you for your statement.
The Indigenous Coordination body has the floor.
Thank you, Chair.
I deliver this statement on behalf of the Indigenous coordinating body on enhanced participation of indigenous peoples in the UN system.
Report a slash HRC slash 59 slash 35 from the Human Rights Council's intersessional meetings in 2024 gives the Human Rights Council the principles, modalities, and options for enhanced participation.
What we are missing is commitment from member states to a concrete process leading to a resolution.
We therefore request the introduction of a resolution at the Council's 63rd session this September mandating the negotiation process to establish a distinct participatory status for indigenous people's representative institutions with full and effective participation of indigenous peoples throughout the process.
The process should be led by two co facilitators with equal standing, one indigenous and one state.
Negotiations must deliver a resolution establishing a fair transparent process utilizing an accreditation mechanism, applying criteria that recognizes the diversity of indigenous people's representative institutions as affirmed in the ALTA outcome document.
No state may have a veto over accreditation processes.
Accreditation should enable indigenous peoples representative institutions to participate in meetings and venues where their interests are impacted.
We ask the expert mechanism to formally propose this process to the council.
Further, the council should commit to adequate and predictable funding for Indigenous people's representative institutions participation throughout the process by way of funding for the voluntary fund and the Indigenous coordinating body.
Finally, we reiterate that nothing agreed as a result of negotiations may result in lesser participation for indigenous peoples than exists today.
Thank you.
Thank you for your statement.
Now we're going to give the award to joint statement inmate, Smiprliamentary Council.
B, Madam Chair, I speak on behalf of the Sami Council, Sami Parliament of Finland, and the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
We commend states and Indigenous peoples for having come a long way in our process to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples in the UN, particularly within the UN Human Rights Council.
Good foundational work has been conducted, including the intersessional meetings of the Human Rights Council in 2024.
The joint report of the intersectional meetings lay out principles, modalities, and options for enhanced participation as deliberated by states and indigenous peoples.
Now it is time to take concrete steps.
We therefore fully support the request by the Indigenous coordinating body for the introduction of a resolution at the Council 63rd session this September, mandating a negotiation process to establish a distinct participatory status for Indigenous peoples representative institutions.
The Arctic socio cultural region furthermore supports that the process should be led by two co facilitators, one from indigenous peoples and one from states working on equal footing.
As affirmed in the Ulta outcome document of 2013, criteria must recognize the diversity of indigenous people's own representative institutions.
Finally, we join the ICP in asking the expert mechanism to formally propose this process to the Human Rights Council, and we call for a commitment to adequate funding for Indigenous people's participation throughout the process, including through funding of the UN voluntary Fund for Indigenous peoples and the work of the Indigenous coordinating body.
Let us agree on non regression and building on the deliberations that have already taken place, clearly laying out a path ahead and to build on what we have collectively achieved, Reena.
Thank Thank you so much for your statement.
We're now going to give the floor to Native Americans Rights Fund, joint statement with National Congress of American Indians and the Latin American Rights Fund.
May Yum, thank you, Chair.
I speak on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians and the Native American Rights Fund.
For 25 years, Indigenous peoples have dedicated immense effort and resources traveling to Geneva, seeking protections for our genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions at the World Intellectual Property Organization.
In 2024, with the active participation of the Indigenous Caucus, WIpo member states adopted the Treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources, and associated traditional knowledge, WIPs first treaty, including indigenous peoples.
It is a significant step in protecting medicinal knowledge, combating biopiracy, and addressing our exclusion from the intellectual property system.
MRIPs study on indigenous data rights highlights the treaty as a significant milestone in international law and a positive step against misappropriation.
EMRIPS expert Mechanism advice number 18, advises states to become parties to the treaty.
The permanent forum on Indigenous issues has also urged member states to join the treaty.
Article 31 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples affirms our right to maintain, control, protect, and develop our genetic resources and traditional knowledge and articulate states obligations to take effective measures to recognize and protect the exercise of these rights.
The WO Treaty expressly references the Declaration and provides a concrete pathway for states to fulfill this obligation.
To continue amplifying and elevating the call for action on the treaty, we request that MRIP recommend the Human Rights Council urge states to become parties to the treaty and to fully implement it in conjunction with indigenous peoples in accordance with Article 31.
Thank you.
Thank you for your statement.
I will now give the floor to the International commitment of Indigenous people of Russia.
Are they in the room? For many years, coal and gold mining has been destroying ecosystems and the lands of the Shore people in Camero Obst and the Kase Republic.
Open pit mining destroys Tigar rivers, pastures, hunting grounds, sacred ancestral sites over the past decade.
There has been an expulsion of residents from the Kazakhs Irinca and Taleb villages due to mining.
Moreover, in 2025, The villages of T lip and Usas were excluded from the federal list of places of traditional residence and traditional economic activities, which means the systematic reduction of traditional territories of the shore officially recognized by the state.
None of the residents of the above mentioned villages received any compensation for the loss of territories and sources of livelihood.
The principle of free pry informed consent was ignored.
Also, the villages of Vern Kirki and asyn have been under threat of destruction.
The IRF study rightly notes the increase in the criminalization of representatives of Indigenous peoples cooperating with UN mechanisms for more than six months.
Human rights defenders Dari Geir and Natale Leon Gert are in pretrial detention and their cases cited in the study as an example of such protection, we invite MRIP to continue monitoring the loss of traditional territories and cases of persecution of representatives of indigenous peoples for cooperation with the un mechanisms.
In addition, recommendations should also include the implementation of mechanisms for the protection of traditional territories and respect of the right of indigenous peoples to free prior and informed consent.
Thank you.
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We will now hear from Australia.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
The multilateral system matters to Australia.
It anchors our sovereignty, agency, and prosperity, manages risks that go beyond our borders and underpins growth and stability in our region.
But we all know the world is changing and we are facing global challenges that still need global responses.
The world needs a system that delivers what no country can alone, including four indigenous peoples.
Australia supports ambitious, meaningful, and lasting UN reform to preserve and enhance the parts of the system that matter most to us and to our region.
The Secretary-General UN AD initiative is an opportunity to build a UN that is modern, agile, and fit for purpose.
We welcome proposals from ERP to promote efficiencies, reduce overlap, and enhance outcomes on the ground for indigenous peoples.
Australia believes that UN reform must be transparent, inclusive, and evidence based and should enhance, not diminish the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples at the United Nations.
Australia supports ERIP's mandate to provide its expertise and advice to the Human Rights Council.
We encourage innovative ideas to further enhance implementation of indigenous people's right to participation in line with UN reform objectives and to build on the gains that have been made.
Madam Chair, this discussion is timely as we approach the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Human Rights Council should be encouraged to reaffirm and mainstream the principles of UNDRIP across the work of the council and encourage member states to engage in MRIP.
The HRC must continue to champion UNDRIP with determination, turning its principles into concrete action for indigenous peoples as we look ahead to the next 20 years.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much.
We will now hear from I apologize for the pronunciation, the chair.
Hello.
Thank you very much, Chairperson, indigenous brothers and sisters, representatives of states.
My name is Mohamed Nav.
I'm from the Timbuktu region and I'm speaking today on behalf of my people with pride and dignity.
We are a resilient people upon whom a conflict was imposed.
For half a century, we've been confronted with a post colonial conflict, one of the most complex in the Sahel space.
This conflict has highlighted the limitations of exclusively military responses in the face of historic identity claims whose roots go back before the formation of states and the post colonial period.
For decades now, our resilience and patience have been put under a Terrible test, military occupation has uprooted our people and successive occupation undertaken by Bamako and other centers have led to prolonged conflicts and recourse to Russia through militia and non state actors.
Has been a new and even more terrible chapter leading to our regional instability.
Our people was the first to pay the highest price in this war behind the statistics of displaced families, destroyed villages and generations deprived of a future of peace.
This requires a courageous political response founded on justice and resilience.
We are a people and identified by language, culture, land, and our identity.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I now call on the Crimea Tatar Resource Center.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Russia's military aggression against Ukraine violated the UN Charter and the Declaration.
183 of the Crimean tatars are in Russian prisons.
Jim Gafaov and Rusty Very died.
Enforced disappearances and persecution of indigenous peoples and human rights defenders continue.
Recommendations.
The Human Rights Council Council should adopt a special resolution on the situation of indigenous peoples under occupation as a specific category of human rights violations.
Pre UN special report on the situation of indigenous peoples in armed conflict and militarization, strengthen mechanisms for reporting and interaction with indigenous people's representatives.
Iprove mandatory consultation with their representatives when considering their situation.
Support the establishment of a global rehabilitation and integration program aimed at restoring the rights of indigenous peoples who have been forcibly deported, expelled, and exiled from their historical homeland.
De the emergency response mechanism for the enforced disappearance of indigenous peoples representatives.
Establish an Indigenous rights Defenders awards to annual recognized Indigenous human rights defenders.
And facilitate funding for international lawyers to defend indigenous political prisoners in detention center.
Thank you for your attention.
Thank you very much for that.
We will now hear from Wintu T.
Thank you, Chair.
I'm speaking as legal advocate representative for the traditional authority of the Wynum Wintu tribe, the matriarchal matrilineal spiritual leadership and Indigenous People's Representative institution.
The Wynum Wintu tribe is an indigenous people and a federally unrecognized or non recognized tribe still living in its traditional territory in the United States practicing tribal traditions.
We recommend that Emir proposes to the Human Rights Council that establish under the work of enhanced participation and in its upcoming resolution on human rights and Indigenous peoples in its 63rd session, in an urgent and timely deadline and hearing manner, a commitment to and realization of a new distinct participatory status for indigenous people's representative institutions at the Human Rights Council.
This must be done with respect to the fact that indigenous people's representative institutions, including traditional spiritual authorities and of nonrecognized indigenous peoples are indigenous governments accountable to their people and their survival and well being, upholding own distinct cultures rights and appointing own representatives in accordance with own customs.
Also imperative is that the minimum of the equivalent of permanent observer status be made available to indigenous peoples representative institutions.
We support the ICB in this process and the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples and in particular as distinct rights holders and responsibility bearers, indigenous peoples representative institutions.
We also recommend that Emi proposed to the Human Rights Council that in its upcoming 63rd session resolution on indigenous peoples, it expands the current list of participation at the HRC to include UPR sessions.
The Winum Wintu tribe is deeply affected by the ongoing colonial laws, policies and practices of the United States.
USA is scheduled for a delayed UPR this November 2026.
A resolution expanding participation to include UPR reviews will enable appointed representation and engagement at the review and especially regarding crucial matters.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I give the floor.
Muchas.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Go ahead and give us the floor on behalf of National Commission of the Camber of Indigenous Peoples, the National Commissioners of Indigenous Territories, the National Commission of Indigenous Women, and the Technical Secretary of Nation Secretary of Indigenous Women of Colombia.
We play a central role in defending territory, collective memory, and reconstructing the community fabric.
We've been hit in a differentiated and disproportional manner by the armed conflict.
This and many indigenous women are victims and only 1.3% of them had received reparations.
We continue to suffer from forced recruitment, attacking the cultural identity of our peoples as a priority.
We demand that the expert mechanism proposed to the Human Rights Council, the realization of a discussion panel focusing on the forced recruitment of indigenous children in the context of conflict and post conflict.
This panel would make it possible to visualize make more visible this phenomenon and its differentiated impact on our peoples, exchange best practices related to prevention and strengthen the link between international mechanisms of human rights and indigenous authorities, making this an urgent priority of the international system for the protection of indigenous peoples and consolidation of peace.
In addition to this, we request that proposals to the Council include a trans versatile manner, the gender perspective and territorial focus because in addition to reparation, which recognizes the collective damage and guarantees our participation in the peace processes and transitional justice to protect us and our children is protect the collective future of our people.
Thank you very much.
How I'd like to give the floor State, Asia, Indigenous people, Caucus, and Indigenous people from Nepal.
Thank you.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
As we approach the 20th anniversary of RIP, the Asia Indigenous Caucus emphasizes that global climate action must align with the UN 80 reform and international human rights obligations under Article 46 0.3.
The rapid scaling of the just transition and critical mineral extraction has intensive height, environmental degradation, particularly through mass plantation and agribusiness expansion.
This has triggered several indigenous health crises acutely impacting indigenous women, and persons with disabilities.
Concurrently, the political sensitive issues of indigenous peoples displaced into non indigenous territories demands, urgent human rights oversight.
To ensue domestic legal and policy reviews such as those critical in needed regarding recent developments in Nepal and Bangladesh completely with international standards, we propose the following strategic actions for the Human Rights Council for its consideration and approval.
Number one, a thematic study on just transient critical minerals and agribusiness.
We propose a comprehensive study assessing the cumulative impact of green energy extraction and mass plant based on expansion on indigenous lands, specifically evaluating the distinct health and socioeconomic vulnerabilities of indigenous women and persons with disabilities.
Number two, a thematic report and panel discussion on displaced indigenous peoples.
We propose an expert report followed by a dedicated panel discussion addressing the rights, legal protections, and political sensitivity surrounding indigenous peoples living in non indigenous territories.
Furthermore, we call for a more prop evaluation tracking on the domestic implementation of MIP advice issues since 2009.
Moving forward, the AIA Caucus will initiate immediately.
Thank you so much for your statement.
I give the floor to Cuba.
Madam Chair, this Human Rights Council cannot continue to tolerate the continued violation of human rights of indigenous peoples despite progress achieved during the 20 years since the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights and Indigenous Pele forced dismissals, the negotiation of the right to lands, criminalization of leaders of indigenous leaders, the impunity of transnational corporations, among other things, continue to be a realities that are being faced by many communities throughout the world.
Cuba proposed, therefore, to the Human Rights Council, the following practical steps in line with the commitments taken related to the full implementations of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
First, continue to encourage states to elaborate policies and practices to promote the implementation of the Unclarations on the rights of indigenous peoples.
In consultation and cooperation with these peoples.
Two, include in reports of the states to the UPR progress achieved and challenges to overcome the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and implementation of the Convention.
Three, organize, during the 66th session of the Council, a thematic panel on the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples with the objectives to assess the progress achieved and identify remaining challenges and ensure the exchange of best practices for the full realization of the rights of indigenous peoples.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now we give the floor Winport International Chief William Li Child, sir.
Respected greetings to all delegations.
Your Excellency's experts and esteemed members of the forum.
Our delegation respectfully calls for two, I think, non controversial proposals and indeed, I think, focus on our youth and children in a positive way.
First, we call for the endorsement and adoption of the Commonwealth Sports Declaration to advance reconciliation in partnership with Indigenous peoples, a copy to which is attached to our submitted text.
Secondly, to support and endorse the call for the establishment of a legally binding UN Convention on indigenous languages.
Both calls have a common foundation for the advancement, implementation, and enforcement of the ten UN principles for reconciliation that have been previously adopted.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
He Hei.
Thank you.
I give the floor now.
Congress Pop Kutunr Good afternoon in order to ensure the full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Persons.
The Council of the Can proposed for review of the approval of the inclusion of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples as part of a UPR review, just like the Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Charter, because the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is individual and not collective right.
Custom is my natural region, it's my Constitution.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I give the Tan Indian Treaty Council.
We express profound concern regarding the spreading insistence by some states in a range of UN bodies to conflate and combine indigenous peoples with undefined entities called local communities.
We appreciate MRIP's firm position, standing with the other two UN mechanisms addressing indigenous peoples to oppose this conflation, recognizing that it undermines the unique collective rights of indigenous peoples as peoples in international fora as well as in our homelands.
Last week at the UN Committee on Food Security in Rome, this situation reached the level of crisis as a small group of states insisted on adding local communities to a previously agreed thematic focus on indigenous people's food systems.
Most states, the civil society and Indigenous people's mechanism, and FAs Indigenous Peoples Unit opposed this.
However, three states were so insistent that a conclusion could not be reached by the end of the meeting on Friday.
We therefore request that the ERP reaffirm its position calling for non conflation of indigenous peoples with any other entities, and also advise the Human Rights Council to maintain its position in this regard, including by ensuring that its annual resolution continues to focus on the unique, distinct collective and individual rights of indigenous peoples.
Finally, we respectfully restate our request for ERP to advise the Human Rights Council to carry out a fourth UN study on treaties and agreements concluded by indigenous peoples and states.
As a key activity honoring the 20th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples in 2027.
Thank you, Madam Chair Chia.
Thank you.
The Indigenous of Russia Russia joint Asia of Russia Foundation.
Thank you, Chair.
Despite the guarantees contained in the UN RIP, indigenous communities in Russia continue to face shrinking civic space, increasing restrictions on indigenous organizations, and systematic limitations on their ability to participate in decision making affecting our lands, territories, resources, languages and cultures.
Indigenous human rights defenders who peacefully advocate for their people's rights are labeled as foreign agents, extremists and terrorists, forcing many into exile.
We encourage the Human Rights Council to request greater monitoring of the impact of the historic emigration of the indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine and oppression against any indigenous self organization.
We also encourage the Council to pay special attention to the militarization of the indigenous children and its consequences for their rights, education, and future.
Lastly, we encourage the council to acknowledge and examine the continuing colonial practices of the Russian Federation affecting indigenous peoples and national minorities, including systemic crusification policies, restrictions on cultural and linguistic rights, and exploitation of indigenous peoples, traditional territories.
Matal, thank you.
Thank you for your statement.
I give the floor.
Die Social Institute.
Distinguished Chair, experts Shar, my name is doctor Rjishkaa and I belong to the On peoples of India.
India's non recognition of its First Nations is a serious mishap and their claim that all Indians are indigenous is a claim that collapses the distinction between first peoples and later settlers between the colonized and those who colonized them.
India abstained from ratifying the UNDRIP despite voting in favor with no formal recognition mechanism for Adiwasi peoples under international Indigenous rights frameworks.
We respectfully ask the mechanism to bring three concrete proposals to the Human Rights Council at its 63rd session in this September.
First, the council should call on India to formally recognize its 104 million Adiwasi citizens as First Nations under Up and ending two decades of non implementation since it's 2007 vote in favor and to establish a constitutional amendment or mechanism which enables that recognition.
A state that runs a domestic tribal um, affirmative action system, is also denying them their status in an international framework.
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Second, the council should call for grounds of consent under the PSA Act to be treated as a binding and non overridable by the coll bearing acts, uh, in the states of Star and Odessa.
Finally, the council should call for the immediate enactment of the municipal extension to the schedule areas bill pending since 2001.
If none of these are aspirational asks and each responds to a mechanism that India has built and just you.
Thank you for your statement.
I give the floor to the Abages Indigenous.
Thank you very much.
Madam Chair, we propose that the Human Rights Council demands MMREP to elaborate a thematic study on the rights of indigenous persons in the context of energy transitions and exploitation of critical minerals to see the impact of this indigenous Womble.
The growing demand for rare minimals of strategic nature are creating additional pressure on indigenous territories in numerous countries, including Argentine, this transition moves forward without providing any guarantees of free pri informed consent, the protection of territorial rights, nor does it involve effective participation of indigenous peoples.
Such a study will make it possible to identify best practices and The obligations of states and enterprises in line with international human rights law and formulate recommendations to guarantee an energy transition that is just that does not reproduce of new forms of pillage, discrimination, or violence against indigenous peoples.
Also, we propose that study includes a specific focus on the differentiate impact that such activities generate on indigenous women that play a fundamental role in the protection of water, territories, biodiversities, and traditional knowledge.
The energy transition cannot be built at the cost of the rights of indigenous peoples.
A true, just transition should respect determination, our territories and our effective participations in all decisions that affect us.
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I give the floor now.
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Ten Madam Chair, the National Ewe Chairs Forum supports the proposals presented by the Indigenous Determinants of Health Alliance, the Indigenous body on enhanced participation and the International Indian Treaty Council.
We urge the expert mechanism to recommend that the Human Rights Council move from dialogue to action.
Nearly 20 years after adoption, indigenous peoples continue to participate at the United Nations through arrangements that fall far short of the standards contained in the Declaration itself.
Articles 18, 19, 41, and 42 require more than consultation.
They require us to participate in decisions affecting our rights through our own representative institutions, and we call and they call on the United Nations to actively promote the implementation of the Declaration.
Our AIM 26 report demonstrates how quickly indigenous rights can be weakened when indigenous institutions are excluded from decision making.
Our report calls for non regression, meaningful partnership, free prior and informed consent, and stronger constitutional protections of indigenous rights and treaties.
Support we support a Human Rights council resolution establishing a formal negotiation process to create a distinct participatory status for indigenous people's representative institutions.
That process should be co facilitated by one indigenous representative and one state representative operate through transparent accreditation without state vetoes and be adequately resourced to ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples throughout.
Credibility of the United Nations depends on ensuring that indigenous peoples are able to participate, standing in their rights and not just merely as observers.
We respectfully encourage the expert mechanism to recommend these proposals to the Human Rights Council and support their timely implementation Modi Order.
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I now give the floor to organization.
Thank you very much Chair.
My name is Clayton Valentin Chump, Naming Indigenous representative and representative of the organization Minaiain.
We praise the work of E in preparing proposals that will be sent to the Human Rights Council.
They represent an opportunity to strengthen the implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples at the global level.
On the basis of the experience of the Ashanink and Nomatsijga peoples of Peru, we believe that these proposals should contribute to reduce the gap that continues to exist between international standards and the realities faced by communities.
In this respect, we recommend that the council strengthen mechanisms of follow up related to recommendations aimed at states promoting periodic assessments that are transparent and fully participative.
Also, we propose that priority is given to actions aimed at guaranteeing the protection of the defenders of the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment and ensure the effective application of free prior informed consent.
In line with international standards and strengthen the measures of protection for indigenous people situation of isolation and initial contact.
It is also important for the council to promote greater cooperation on the technical level between states, UN mechanisms, and indigenous organizations in order to ensure that this work is translated into specific public policies with sufficient resources and the relevant mechanisms of accountability.
The decisions adopted by the council should respond to the real needs of our peoples and contribute to guaranteeing the full exercise of our collective rights.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now I give the floor to Berry.
It's AIPR.
Thank you, Chair, Distinguished members of the expert Mechanisms Excellency's Indigenous representatives and colleagues.
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I'm Kia Categaru and I'm speaking on behalf of the Association of Indigenous Peoples in the LQs.
We respectfully invite the expert mechanism to recommend to the Human Rights Council the establishment of a special rapporteur on the human rights impacts of the militarization of lands and territories in military prisons.
The expert Mechanisms 2023 study on the impact of militarization on the rights of indigenous peoples, together with the Pence study on the rights of indigenous peoples in conflict and post conflict situations demonstrates that militarization is not salary a matter of security.
It is also a structural driver of interconnected human rights impact affecting, among others, self determination, the rights of women and girls, territories and resources, health, water, food, the environment, culture, and access to effective remedies.
Existing special procedures make essential contribution.
However, these impact remain addressed separately across different mandates, leaving no mechanism able to examine militarization as a cross cutting driver of interconnected human rights concerns.
A dedicated mandate toward complete existing special procedures by strengthening coherence across these areas and enhancing the Human Rights Council's contribution to conflict prevention through a human rights based approach.
Therefore respectfully urge the expert mechanism to recommend the establishment of this mandate to the Human Rights Council.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your statement.
Now, I give long to Nishan Web Ashton Nation.
Thank you, Chair.
The Nish Nab ask Nation encourages the expert mechanism to undertake a future thematic study on regression and the implementation of the UN Declaration.
This emerging implementation challenge has not yet received the dictated thematic attention.
A long continuing efforts to secure recognition of indigenous rights, protecting implementation gains from regression is emerging as a new challenge requiring dictated attention.
Canada is entering a period in which implementation of the UN Declaration is becoming increasingly vulnerable to regression.
The Canada Act Bill C and Ontario Bill five establishes accelerated legislative frameworks for projects designated as being in the national interests by compressing decision making and around strategic projects.
These frameworks risk approving projects before indigenous peoples can meaningfully exercise their rights.
Challenge is no longer simply achieving implementation of the UN Declaration.
It is protecting implementation where governments invoke the national interest to restructure governance before indigenous peoples can meaningfully exercise their rights.
As governments increasingly and coordinate decision making, indigenous governments remain excluded from governing partners, leaving rights formally recognized while diminishing their effective exercise through governance reconstructing.
Regression may occur not only through governance restructing and legislative change, but also through domestic interpretations of the United Declaration that narrows its protection below international standards.
We encourage the expert mechanism to examine the drivers of regression and develop practical guidance to safeguard implementation gains while upholding self determination, treaty implementation, indigenous jurisdiction, meaningful participation in FIC.
Thank you very much for your statement.
Now I give the floor.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
The Van Lake, 3,760 square kilometers, the largest lake in Western Armenia, the main ecosystem in the near East beyond its ecological importance, and it represents historical, cultural and landscape heritage of exceptional value to humanity, especially because of the close connection with Armenian civilization and with several millennia of history.
Our contribution demonstrates a rapid degradation of lakes ecosystems and its watershed.
Observations and research show a continuous decline in water levels, worsening drought due to climate change, the accumulation of solid waste, the growing presence of microplastics, water pollution, as well as the expansion of mining, industrial, and other extraction activities in the immediate vicinity of the lake.
This phenomenon are putting increasing pressure on biodiversity wetlands and migratory bird habitats along the main migration corridors for birds between Africa, Middle East, and Eurasia.
The study also notes that certain environmental assessment studies and authorizations given to industrial projects also give rise to concerns regarding their transparency and effective consideration of the cumulative impact on the lakes ecosystems.
Despite the existence of national strategies for water management and drought management, the measures that are implemented appeared, according to the report insufficient halt the degradation that is being observed under international law.
The situation requires special attention under several international instruments, including the Declaration on the Rights Indigenous People.
The report states that this is not simply environmental issue.
This also relates to the preservation of cultural and historical heritage of exceptional nature closely associated with the identity of the indigenous peoples of the region, particularly as Armenians of Western Armenia and with the memory of one of the oldest civilizations.
Thank you very much for your statement.
Now, I give the floor to Senator.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
My name is Edmilkoty.
I speak on behalf of the indigenous Crimea the people of Ukraine.
We would like to highlight several priorities that require continued attention from the Human Rights Council and the United Nations systems.
This year times 20 years since the YN rep was adopted, but despite the development of international standards, significant gaps remain in ensuring accountability for violations of the rights of indigenous peoples.
A different regions of the world indigenous peoples continue to face violations in situation of armed conflict, occupation, for displacement, environmental degradation, and restriction on their fundamental freedoms.
We therefore encourage five work towards developing strong international mechanisms and approaches for assessing state responsibility and ensuring accountability for violation of indigenous people's rights, including access to effective remedies and justice for affected peoples.
We reiterate the importance of advancing to enhanced direct participation of indigenous peoples within the UN nations systems and international decision making processes.
Meaningful participation is not only a procedural issue, but a necessary expression of the rights of indigenous people to self determination.
In this regard, the principle of free priority and informed consent remains fundamental.
It is essential to maintain a clear distinction between consultation and consent.
Consultation cannot substitute for free priority and informed consent, nor can it replace indigenous people's rights to participate in decision making on matter affecting all rights, lands, territories, resources, cultures, and futures.
The effective implementation of FPC should therefore be understood as a practical mechanism for realizing self determination and ensuring that indigenous peoples exercise genuine influence over decisions that affect us.
Finally, in the context of the UN AT initiative and ongoing discussions on UN reform, it is essential to ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples remain a priority.
Efforts to improve efficiency and coherence within the United Nations must not result in the weakening of existing mechanisms dedicated to indigenous peoples.
The permanent forum on indigenous issues, the expert mechanism on the rights of Indigenous peoples and the special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples each perform distinct and complementary functions.
Thank you very much for your statements.
The Regional Council Ten has the floor.
Thank you, honorable experts.
I'm speaking on behalf of the Regional Tisimen Council from the Pilon Lajz region in Bolivia.
I am a student training to be a teacher and I would like to say that the recommendations of this mechanism should lead to binding commitments before the Human Rights Council for years now.
Our communities have been reporting the violation of ancestral lands and violence meted out against our leaders without the Bolivian state being able to complying with The rulings handed down to restore rights.
We need effective supervision mechanisms obliging states to implement monitoring mechanisms and legal rulings protecting our territorial rights.
Representing my people, I'd like to propose that the propose the following to the HRC, Establishment of a implementation monitoring mechanism.
The council establish annual direct follow up concerning the implementation of legal rulings to restore territory in favor of indigenous peoples to ensure that the ongoing violence perpetrated by the state has ceased.
Secondly, defense of human rights defenders and the early warning protocol as well as protection for indigenous leaders that have been criminalized because of the defense of their territories against mining and forestry.
There is delayed justice, and this is unfair.
We urge the mechanism to highlight this to the HRC.
We're profoundly grateful the chair interrupts.
Thank you very much for your statement.
We'll now pass the floor to Association.
Ismir Circansan Cultural Association.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Baz humans.
As the expert mechanism prepares recommendation for the Human Rights Council, I would like to draw attention to two issues that continue to affect my people, people of the Republic of Apaia.
The first concerns the Genoa international discussions.
More than 15 years after their establishment, meaningful progress remains limited because the Republic of Apazia still not accepted as an equal party in the negotiations.
Sustainable peace cannot be achieved if one of the parties directly affected by the conflict is included from genuine political dialogue.
The second concern, the practical consequences of the non recognition of documents issued in Abkhazia.
Every day, many people face restrictions on freedom of movement, access to education, employment, and international academic and cultural opportunities simply because their documents are not recognized.
These are practical human rights challenges that deserve greater international attention.
I therefore encourage the expert mechanism to recommend that the Human Rights Council support more inclusive dialogue process and promote practical arrangements that facilitate freedom of movement and broader acceptance of identity and travel documents for humanitarian, educational, academic, and cultural purposes.
Such recommendations would make a meaningful contribution to improving the daily lives of people living in situations of prolonged unresolved conflict and negotiations.
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Thank you.
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The Indigenous Global Confederation joint statement with the Adama Pasa Foundation, please.
Thank you, Madam.
Har, thank you for this opportunity.
Post independence, the government of India consider every person as the indigenous people.
On behalf of Adiivasi Mahasab Congress, India, I would like to state that Adivasis and tribes of India are the Indigenous peoples of India.
We are humbled that government of India has recognized Adivasis as scheduled tribe in the Constitution of India.
We have fifth and sixth scheduled areas in India to respect their rights.
Adiwsan tribals have been celebrating and recognizing ninth August as the International Day of the world's indigenous people.
Since government of India considered every person as indigenous peoples, however, it does not legally recognize ninth August as the Indigenous Day or Adiwasivas.
Many state governments like Chatzajharkn, Maha Pradesh, and Rajasthan earlier have recognized this day and have granted public holidays in the commemoration of this day.
We would like to also raise the concern about the exclusion of migrated Adivasis in New Delhi as scheduled tribes in the census of India.
Conflict happening in Manipur, acquisition of land for corporate projects in Kaag Anglo Assam, which violates the violate FBIC to add displacement of Adivasis and cutting of hundreds of trees from Hasd forest Chatsar, proposed Arawi Forest Hills, proposed project in Nab Niobara Island Jahan Orsi, Maha Pradesh and development projects are threatening lives and culture, languages and identity of Adivasis or indigenous peoples.
We suggest and urge that government of India should recognize ninth August as the Indigenous day or Adiivasdivas, and include migrated Adivasis in Delhi as the scheduled tribes.
Since government of India recognize all people as indigenous people, then they should also ratify ILO 163.
We need peace and prosperity and it will come together with the mutual collaboration of this mechanism.
Government and Adiivasis of India, Johar thank you.
Thank you very much.
Benani has the floor.
Thank you very much, Chair.
Currently, we have noticed worrying trend and the worsening situation, human rights compliance related to indigenous people cooperating with the UN.
These trends require additional measures by the Human Rights Council.
The repressions are becoming more and more serious, including the application of terrorist and extremism legislation against the defenders of indigenous peoples rights.
In Russia, this practice is used to persecute the representative of indigenous persons for their cooperation with UN mechanisms.
In Russia on the 17th of December 2025, arbitral detain Daria Yegro, the President of the Caucuses of the United Nations on climate change and Natalia Lanark, defender of the rights of Indigenous peoples.
They all face 20 years sentences.
We'd like to make the following recommendations to the Human Rights Council to call upon the Russian Federation to stop the repression of indigenous peoples and immediately liberate the president of the Caucuses of the United Nations on climate change, Daria gv, and the Defender of the rights of indigenous peoples.
We recommend that the Human Rights Council to annual review the situation related to the criminalization of indigenous peoples, cooperating with the UN mechanisms as a separate aspect of discussing questions of repression to ask the EMRIP to carry out a special study related to the criminalization of those who cooperate with the United Nations to look at the causes and what can be done to prevent such violations.
These recommendations are fully in line with UNDRIP, resolutions of the UN General Assembly 70 9159 and also obligations of states to prevent acts of intimidation or repression against those who cooperate with the United Nations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Laura.
Thank you very much.
The Ontario Women's Association has the floor, Native Women's Association.
Thank you, Chair.
Today, we respectfully ask ERIP to recommend two actions to the Human Rights Council.
First, urge member states and the United Nations to ensure the full, effective and meaningful participation of indigenous women's organizations, including urban indigenous organizations in decision making at every level.
Article 18 of the Declaration affirms our right to participate through representatives chosen by us and to strengthen our own indigenous institutions.
Indigenous women must not simply be consulted.
We must be partners in shaping decisions that affect our lives.
Inclusive decision making means working directly with indigenous women's organizations and rejecting colonial approaches that continue to exclude our voices.
As we remind member states, nothing about us without us.
Second, recommend that member states establish transparent monitoring and public reporting mechanisms on the UNDRIP and CEDAW General recommendation 39 in partnership with indigenous women's organizations.
Article 22 affirms indigenous women's right to protection from violence and discrimination.
Yet, indigenous women continue to experience disproportionate levels of violence.
In Canada, indigenous women are approximately 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than other women.
The homicide rate for us has doubled in the last ten years.
The commitments already exist.
What is missing is implementation and accountability.
We must not regress, especially now.
We must move forward and act with urgency.
We call on member states to establish transparent mechanisms to measure progress, report publicly, and work directly with indigenous women's organizations to ensure these commitments become a reality.
Indigenous women are asserting our inherent right to lead.
We collectively have an opportunity and responsibility to act now for our future generations.
Accountability cannot wait.
Thank you.
I now recognize the Amazic World Council.
Thank you very much, Chair.
I'm speaking on behalf of the Union of Kale Women concerning the Amazec situation.
We would like to submit two proposals.
The first is to put a permanent item on the agenda entitled The Voice of Indigenous Victims within MRIP sessions and Human Rights Council sessions to ensure direct testimony from indigenous peoples who have had their rights violated to clarify this for the work of UN mechanisms.
This proposal is justified due to the repeated serious violations of indigenous people's rights repeatedly imprisoned, exiled, sentenced to death, killed, as was the case of Kem Laba in Algeria or where the government of this country has given itself a legal arsenal, enshrined in anti terrorist law under famous Article 87B of the Criminal Code.
Last week, the pacifist lobbyist Sai Bizar, 74 years of age was sentenced to ten years in prison because they published on social networks while journalist Mourad Anti Mamu was placed under arrest for having denounced this.
There are mercenaries from Africa, at the same time who live in complete impunity.
Our second proposal concerns the time allocated to the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous peoples in the Human Rights Council.
Currently, this time is extremely insufficient to allow the rapporteur to present his report and to respond to answers from the public.
As a result, we would propose that this allocated time is double for the Special Rapporteur.
Indigenous peoples don't only need to be represented, they must be heard.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
I now recognize the Traditional Council for New Caledonia.
Thank you very much, Chair, ladies and gentlemen, experts, pursuant to Article 1B of resolution six and paragraph two of Resolution 3325, The movement of indigenous peoples in New Caledonia and the Kanak people submits three urgent proposals to the Human Rights Council.
The first is the recommendation of an international independent investigation in New Caledonia and four investigations and report 1653 agree on the same 14 deaths, much damage, and many arrests.
The issues of Namibia, the Chagosian Islands, Timor Este demonstrate that the international community cannot ignore this illegal context.
The second is the formal connection between MRIP and the decolonization Committee in line with the proposal B of the last ERI report 60-65 from 2025 concerning indigenous people's rights in non independent territories such as Kanak in New Caledonia, are not incorporated as Puerto Rico.
The proposal which was adopted on the 18th of June 2026 on New Caledonia, the TKI Declaration, and the SA Summit, as well as the 104th Pacific Forum represents a regional carpus which must enter into explicit dialogue with the work of this mechanism.
The third proposal would be the incorporation of Resolution 13 25 into the monitoring mandate, Senatorial report number eight, ten confirms that the Kanak bear a disproportionate brunt of the ramifications of systemic inequalities.
They must be formally involved in any reconstruction and dialogue process.
We call on MRIP to put these three proposals in its final report and ensure follow up of that before the Human Rights Council in its forthcoming session.
Thank you very much.
I now recognize Berg State of New Mexico.
Nin American Church, State of New Mexico.
They don't seem to be present, so we'll proceed to give the floor to the Lenigrad Regional Public Organization.
That would be the last speaker and they don't seem to be in the room either.
So we will pass the floor to the Association and the far east of the Russian Federation.
Madam Chair, I represent an umbrella organization that brings together 40 indigenous peoples of Russia.
We're convinced that the further development of the mandate of the expert mechanism should be aimed at improving the quality of its studies and the practical applicability of the recommendations.
Studies and recommendations should be based on an objective and verifiable information taking the national specificities and reflect the priorities of indigenous peoples only with compliance with these principles, recommendations can be universal, practically applicable, and enjoy the trust of states and indigenous peoples We recommend development of single methodological approaches in the preparation of studies that provide for transparent criterias for selection verification of information, taking into account the collective positions of indigenous peoples recommend to the Human Rights Council to propose to the expert mechanism to take into account collective studies of indigenous peoples confirmed and approved by the representative institutions as one of the instruments of expert accompaniment of thematic studies.
Country engagement and preparation of practical recommendations.
We recommend the elaboration of practical recommendations and take into account the views of representative institutions in the activities of young mechanisms and also recommend develop practical recommendations on organization of culturally acceptable consultations during all stages of preparing these studies and taking into account the views of indigenous peoples as well as of other parties.
Thank you.
Gracias.
Thank you very much.
We will now Move on to recognize my distinguished colleagues.
If they would like to take the floor, could you please indicate it? I call on my colleague, miss Lift.
You have the floor.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair for giving us some time to offer some closing thoughts on the agenda item in front of us, proposals to be submitted to the Human Rights Council for its consideration and approval.
This is probably one of the most important agenda items on our agenda for this week.
And so we really as experts, appreciate hearing all of your input on proposals because this is the next task ahead of us is not only to finalize the study that we talked about yesterday, but also to prepare proposals that will go forward, hopefully to the Human Rights Council.
So your proposals that are thoughtful and clear and substantive help us do our job and bring those issues forward to our sponsors to take to the council.
And so this agenda item is a critical part of that process and absolutely essential for advancing the mandate of the EMRIP.
The same time, we noticed interspersed with proposal recommendations were also some future work suggestions for them.
We've taken note of those in a separate page and are happy to add those to our working list and also look forward to that agenda item later in the week.
Again, just deepest thanks for everyone who has thought so carefully and thoughtfully about what proposals they are bringing to us.
We are very, very appreciative for the time that everyone takes on this item.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Would anyone else like to speak from among the colleagues? We have a couple more minutes so we can hear some more statements.
So I'll pass the floor then.
Action on Indigenous Health governance.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
My name is doctor Christa Silkya and I'm Silk and Klnktt an Indigenous scholar from British Columbia, Canada and the Director for the Center for Collaborative Action on Indigenous Health governance at Simon Frazier University.
I respectfully encourage the expert mechanism to consider undertaking a future thematic study on the implementation of Indigenous people's right to health through self determination and Indigenous led health governance under UNDRIP.
Globally, more than 476 million indigenous people continue to experience profound and persistent health inequities.
The World Health Organization reports that in many contexts, indigenous people have a life expectancy up to 20 years shorter than non indigenous populations and continue to experience disproportionately higher rates of infant mortality, chronic disease, and preventable illness.
These inequities are not inevitable.
They are direct consequences of colonization, structural racism, and the failure to fully realize the human rights affirmed in the Declaration.
Despite commitments made under UNDRIP, implementation remains inconsistent across many member states.
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Declaration, there is important opportunity to move beyond recognizing rights towards strengthening implementation.
Therefore, we propose a thematic study by the expert mechanism that could identify promising practices and provide practical recommendations and guidelines to states on implementing these rights through indigenous led health governance and equitable partnerships, culturally safe health systems, accountability, and the elimination of systemic and structural racism.
Therefore, we recommend the expert mechanism undertake a thematic study, focus on implementation of these rights through upholding self determination and indigenous led health governance and provide practical guidelines on implementing articles set out in Article 3 18, 19, 21, 2023 and 24.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Disability group has the floor.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
I speak on behalf of the National Indigenous Disabled Women Association of Nepal and Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network.
I would like to reiterate that Indigenous peoples are not heterogeneous groups.
They comprise of women, children, youth, and persons with disabilities as enshrined in the Declaration.
Most often these groups remain largely absent from these discussions and our issues are not documented.
We want to speak for us by us.
In all those discussion, we comprise of 58 million indigenous persons with disabilities and 28 million indigenous women with disabilities.
We recommend the Human Rights Council to ensure the effective full recognization and inclusion of indigenous persons and women with disabilities across all its mandate, resolutions and mechanisms, including in the reports produced by the Human Rights Council.
The Council should call upon the states to look at the intersections of indigenity and disability under United Nations Declarations and the UN Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities, including the CEO General Recommendation 39 through inclusive laws, policies and programs.
As we approach to the 20th anniversary of the Declaration, reviewing the UN 80, we recommend the Human Rights Council to undertake the thematic study on the rights of indigenous persons and women women and girls with disabilities align with the CETA General recommendation 39.
We urge the Human Rights Council to promote the meaningful and accessible participation of indigenous persons and women with disabilities in all the decisions affecting their lives, including those related to climate action, biodiversity, digital technology, and sustainable development.
The Human Rights Council should encourage states to ensure the artificial intelligence and emerging technologies that are developed and governed in the way that are accessible, culturally appropriate, and free from discrimination of disability.
Finally, we encourage the Human Rights Council to strengthen cooperation among the United States, including the Human Rights mechanism and support the dedicated resource for capacity building and desegregated data collection for the effective participation of indigenous persons with disabilities.
Indigenous persons with disabilities.
Thank you very much for your statement.
I now recognize.
Education Initiative.
Grassroots World Education Initiative.
Are they in the room? Okay.
So we recognize then Bunia here.
Good afternoon, Distinguished Chair, experts.
I am from Peru.
I'm a member of Ray and we work on investigations in the social education and environmental spheres concerning indigenous peoples.
Greetings.
The community and youth, tra and Amara particularly are concerned about the representivity of youth.
New generations are beginning to trust more in the responses of a monitoring mechanism than in the wisdom of generations and ancestors, grandfathers and grandmothers.
The lack of opportunity in education and labor is partly responsible.
Growing of illegal and legal mining.
Associated to pollution in all of its forms exacerbates the insertion of young people into the system of consumerism and extraction because of a lack of support in community and professional training.
The detegration of our identity is growing over the years.
It's growing because we believe that being a professional and a suit and tie is better than being an indigenous professional.
Indigenous education isn't just information, it's better understanding our shared home and community life.
Observation at levels and practice require youth engagement.
Our fathers and mothers are persecuted for defending our territories.
These realities are incorporated within the Declaration, particularly in Articles 11 13 and 31.
It's important for young people and I'd like to ask the board to consider the effective participation of young people.
The design and governance of future sessions and call on states to improve the educational system, not to allow us to lose our historic roots and leave us with a legacy of the modern politics and problems I'm talking about.
We need to count on those who represent the future because we are here to be counted and represent the present as well because we can't protect what we don't know.
Thank you.
Good.
Well, thank you very much.
That brings us to the conclusion of our list of speakers for today.
It's allowed us to properly inform our decisions.
In terms of the list of speakers for tomorrow, I'd like to remind you that the High Commissioner for Human Rights will be here and we'll begin with the open list of speakers from 11:00 A.M.
Tomorrow morning.
With that, I'd like to conclude this current item.
I'd like to really warmly thank everybody present for their very valuable contributions to this debate.
The session is adjourned.