International Day of the World S Indigenous People

International Day of the World’s Indigenous People 9 August 2006* 2:30pm – 6:00pm, Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, United Nations Headquarters Programme of Activities (2:30pm) FILM SCREENING: Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations (Film by Rebecca Sommer for Secretariat UNPFII, 2005)

******** (3:05pm) Welcome and Spiritual Ceremony by Barbara James Snyder (Washoe & Paiute Nations, North America) Introduction by the Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, DESA, Johan Schölvinck Message of the Secretary General, Kofi Annan Message of the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Coordinator of the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, José Antonio Ocampo Message of the Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Igorot, Philippines) ********* (3:30pm) PANEL DISCUSSION “Indigenous Peoples: human rights, dignity and development with identity”

Opening remarks by: Johan Schölvinck, Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, DESA Panelists: Phrang Roy, Assistant-President on Special Assignment for Indigenous and Tribal Issues, IFAD; Wilton Littlechild (Cree Nation-Canada), Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Romy Tincopa, Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Peru; Q'orianka Kilcher, Actress, lead role of Pocahontas in the 2005 Hollywood film, The New World

Moderated by: Sonia Smallacombe (Maramanindji-Australia) Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

*********** ( 4:30pm) INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PERFORMANCES with Crimean Tatar Association (Ukraine) & Tama Waipara (Maori, New Zealand)

Indigenous Art Exhibition by Inty Muenala (Kichwa) Organized by the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues DSPD/DESA and the NGO Committee on the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

(Programme subject to change)

Master of Ceremonies: Roberto Múcaro Borrero (Taíno, Puerto Rico), Chairperson, NGO Committee on the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

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*The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is officially commemorated on 9 August annually in recognition of the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva in 1982.

Additional Programs in Commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples will take place at the American Museum of Natural History on Saturday 12 August, 2006. For more information contact the American Museum of Natural History at (212) 769-5758 or see their website at http://www.amnh.org/programs/special/global/index.html?src=p_sp