United Nations E/C.19/2012/INF/1

Economic and Social Council Distr.: General 10 July 2012

Original: English

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Eleventh session New York, 7-18 May 2012

Attendance at the eleventh session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Note by the Secretariat

The attendance at the eleventh session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is listed below for purposes of information and ready reference.

Members

Eva Biaudet (Finland); Mirna Kay Cunningham Kain (Nicaragua); Megan Davis (Australia); Dalee Sambo Dorough (United States of America); Paimaneh Hasteh (Islamic Republic of Iran); Edward John (Canada); Simon William M’Viboudoulou (Congo); Anna Naykanchina (Russian Federation); Andrei A. Nikiforov (Russian Federation); Alvaro Pop (Guatemala); Raja Devasish Roy (Bangladesh); Paul Kanyinke Sena (Kenya); Valmaine Toki (New Zealand); Viktoria Tuulas (Estonia); Saúl Vicente Vázquez (Mexico); and Bertie Xavier (Guyana).

States Members of the United Nations represented by observers

Afghanistan; Argentina; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bangladesh; Belarus; Belize; Bolivia (Plurinational State of); Botswana; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Congo; Costa Rica; Cuba; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Denmark; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; India; Indonesia; Iran (Islamic Republic of); Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Kenya; Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Lebanon; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Malaysia; Mauritania; Mexico; Nepal; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Norway; Pakistan; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Suriname; Sweden; Switzerland; Tonga; Turkey; Tuvalu; United States of America; Uruguay; Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of); and Viet Nam.

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Non-member States represented by observers

Holy See.

Intergovernmental organizations, United Nations bodies and specialized agencies

European Union; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; International Fund for Agricultural Development; International Labour Organization; International Union for Conservation of Nature; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity; United Nations Children’s Fund; United Nations Development Programme; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Population Fund; and World Intellectual Property Organization.

Indigenous peoples’ organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

American Indian Law Alliance; Asociacion Kunas Unidos por Nabguana; Assemblée des premières nations du Québec et du Labrador; Assembly of First Nations- National Indian Brotherhood; Asociación Habitat Pro; Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East of the Russian Federation; Batani International Development Fund for Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation; Comisión Jurídica para el Autodesarrollo de los Pueblos Originarios Andinos “Capaj”; Femmes autochtones du Québec; First Nations Summit; Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action Aboriginal Corporation; Grand Council of the Crees; Indian Council of South America; International Indian Treaty Council; Indian Law Resource Centre; Indigenous Peoples Survival Foundation; Tebtebba Foundation; Indigenous World Association; Innu Council of Nitassinan; Inuit Circumpolar Council; Madre; Mbororo Social and Cultural Development Association; Metis National Council of Women; National Association of Friendship Centres; National Indian Youth Council; National Native Title Council; Native Women’s Association of Canada; New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council; Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation; and Saami Council.

Non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

Academic Council on the United Nations System; Academy for Mobilizing Rural- Urban Action through Education; African-American Society for Humanitarian Aid and Development; Agricultural Missions; Amnesty International; Anglican Consultative Council; Baha’i International Community; Centre de documentation, de recherche et d’information des peuples autochtones; Collectif sénégalais des Africaines pour la promotion de l’éducation relative à l’environnement; Company of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; Conference of Non-Governmental

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Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations; Carmelite NGO; Cultural Survival; Dominican Leadership Conference; East-West Management Institute; Environmental Defense Fund; Franciscans International; Friends of the Earth International; Friends World Committee for Consultation; Gray Panthers; Grupo Intercultural Almaciga; Inclusion International; Indian Social Institute; International Association of Democratic Lawyers; International Committee for the Indians of the Americas (Switzerland); International Council for Caring Communities; International Federation of Social Workers; International Human Rights Association of American Minorities; International Human Rights Observer; International Movement for Fraternal Union among Races and Peoples; International Native Tradition Interchange; International Peace and Development Organization; International Presentation Association of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; International Shinto Foundation; International Sociological Association; International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; Loretto Community; L´auravetl´an Information and Education Network of Indigenous People; Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers; Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic; Mennonite Central Committee; Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples; Nature Conservancy; New Future Foundation; Oxfam America; Pan African Movement; Partnership for Global Justice; Passionists International; Pax Christi International; Presbyterian Church USA; Rainforest Foundation International; Salesian Missions; Salvation Army; Shimin Gaikou Centre; Sisters of Charity Federation; Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur; Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries; Sudan Council of Voluntary Agencies; Summer Institute of Linguistics; Temple of Understanding; Southern Diaspora Research and Development Center; Tribal Link Foundation; UNANIMA International; United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society; United Religions Initiative; VIVAT International; Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources; Women’s Intercultural Network; World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations; World Information Transfer; and Yachay Wasi.

Indigenous peoples’ organizations

Aboriginal Leadership Institute; Aboriginal Housing Management Association; Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia; Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney; Abya Yala Nexus; AIM-WEST; Ainu Association of Hokkaido; Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara; American Indian Movement of Colorado; Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust; Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact; Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network; Asociación de Descendientes de la Nación Charrúa; Association of the Indigenous Peoples in the Ryukyus; Association of World Reindeer Herders; Association pour l’intégration et le développement durable au Burundi; Association Tamaynut; Association Tawssna; Association Tin Hinan; Association TUNFA; Assyrian Aid Society; Aupuni Hawaii; Bangladesh CHT-American Buddhist Association; Bangsa Adat Alifuru; Casa Nativa Tampa Allqo; Centro de Educación en Derechos Humanos Ngobe-Bugle; Centro para la Autonomía y Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas; Centro para la Defensa de los Derechos Indígenas; Chickaloon Village, Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples Secretariat and Arctic Athabascan Council; Chihene, Ndeh Nation; Chittagong Hill Tracts Citizens Committee; Chotanagpur Rising Association; Clan Hitorangi-Rapanui; Coastal Band of Chumash Nation; Comision de Juristas Indígenas en La República Argentina; Comité Intertribal Memoria e Ciencia Indígena; Comunidad Integradora del Saber

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Andino; Confederación de Pueblos de la Nacionalidad Kichwa del Ecuador; Confederación de Pueblos Indígenas de Bolivia; Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia; Confederación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas Indígenas Originarias de Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa”; Confederación Sindical de Comunidades Interculturales de Bolivia; Consejo de Comunicación Intercultural de Puebla, México; Consejo de Pueblos y Organizaciones Indígenas Evangélicas del Ecuador; Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Qullasuyu (Conamaq); Consejo Nacional de Mujeres Comunidad Indígena Pueblo Capelo “Conamuc”; Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas; Coordinación de Organizaciones Mapuce de Neuquen; Coordinadora de Organizaciones Indígenas Campesinas y Comunidades Interculturales de Bolivia; Cordillera Peoples Alliance; Council of Yukaghirs Elders; Dagsaw (Panay and Guimaras Indigenous Peoples Network; Defenders of the Land; Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indígenas-Región Sudamérica; Federación de Comunidades Nativas Fronterizas del Putumayo; Federación de los Pueblos Kichwas de la Sierra Norte del Ecuador; Federación de Comunidades Nativas Yanesha; Festival of Ethnic Music Elleyada, Autonomy Noncommercial Organization; First Peoples Disability Network (Australia); First Peoples Worldwide; Forum for Indigenous Studies; Foundation for Research and Support of Indigenous Peoples of Crimea; Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu-Sutsuin Jiyeyu Wayuu; Fundación de Desarollo Integral Guaman Poma; Fundación Wayuunaiki; Ghana Nkwanta Project; Il’Laramatak Community Concerns; Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples North East Zone; Indigenous Bar Association; Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade; Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty; Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism; Indigenous Peoples Development Facilitators Forum; Indigenous Peoples Diagnostic Services; Indigenous Peoples Foundation for Education and Environment; Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program; Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee; International Indigenous Women’s Forum-Foro Internacional de Mujeres Indígenas; Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia; Jumchab Metta Foundation; Juventud Organizada para Vivir en Equilibrio con NanaGuadule; Ka Lahui Hawaii; Kalinago Council; Kapaeeng Foundation; Kobe Oser; Kuki Organization for Human Rights Trust; La Red Xicana Indígena; Land is Life; Long Neck Productions; Longhouse Treaty Nations; Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation; Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre Aboriginal Corporation; Maboria Peoples Organization Kenya; Mainyoito Pastoralist Integrated Development Organisation; Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights; Maya Vision; Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People; Mesa de Organizaciones de Comunidades de Pueblos Originarios de Almirante Brown; MoCreebec Council of the Cree Nation; Mon American Association; Mountain Life Focus; Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People; Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights; National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization; National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples; National Indigenous Higher Education Network, Australia; Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality; Nishnawbe Aski Nation; Nuyagi Keetoowah Society; Ome Gompote Kiwigimoni Huaorani; Onghe-Huh-Weh Haudenosaunee Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy of Turtle Island; Organisasi Pribumi Papua Barat; Organismo Indígena para la Planificación del Desarrollo Naleb; Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia; Organización Regional Indígena del Quindio Oriquin; Organización del Pueblo Kichwa Otavalo; Owe Aku; Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors’ Congress; Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti; Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi/Hawaiian Kingdom; Presencia Taina;

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Ramapough Lenape Nation; Sand Hill Band of Indians; Santa Fe Indian School Summer Policy Academy; Schoodic/St. Croix Band of the Passamaquoddy Tribe; Secretaría de Pueblos Indígenas de Michoacan; Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care; Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development; Six Nations of the Grand River Elected Council; Sunray Meditation Society; Te Runanga o Te Rarawa; Te Runanga-a-Iwi-o Ngati Kahub; Tepiu-aui-Ra; Eagle Clan Arawaks; The Grail; Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Flying Eagle Woman Fund for Peace, Justice and Sovereignty; International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests; Koani Foundation; Native Youth Sexual Health Network; Tonatierra; Unión Nacional de Traductores Indígenas; Union Nationale du Peuple Kanak; Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; United Confederation of Taino People; United Natives; United Tribal Nations; Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Co-operative Limited; Welfare Association; Winnemem Wintu Tribe; Women’s Environmental Conservation Project; Yamasi People; Yayasan Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Masyarakat Adat Sulawesi Tengah; Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples; Yurta Mira; and Zo Reunification Organization.

Other non-governmental organizations

International Center for Transitional Justice.

Academic institutions

Auckland University of Technology; Center for Sámi Studies, University of Tromso; Centre for the Study of Society, Technology and Development; Centro de Estudios Aplicados a los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales; Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; Conservation International; Department of Applied Indigenous Studies, Northern Arizona University; Department of Sociology, University of Essex; Fairleigh Dickinson University; Fourth World Center for Indigenous Law and Politics, University of Colorado at Denver; George Mason University; Global Edge Research; Grupo de Estudios Africanos, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Historical Memory Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Instituto de Derechos Humanos-Universidad de Deusto; International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture; James Cook University; Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii; Rutgers University; Saint Thomas University, School of Law; Salamanca High School Model UNPFII; Salem State University; Sámi University College; State University of New York — College at Brockport; Suffolk University Law School; Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario; University of Arizona, Support Project for the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; University of British Columbia; University of California Berkeley, School of Law; Washington State University; and Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Newcastle.

Bodies represented by indigenous parliamentarians

Central America Parliament; Congreso de la República de Guatemala; Honorable Congreso de la Unión, Mexico; Grupo Parlamentario Venezuelano, Venezuela

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(Bolivarian Republic of); Parlamento Brasileiro; and the Sami Parliament in Norway.

National human rights institutions

Australian Human Rights Commission.

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