Side Events 18th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues NYC UN Head Quarters, 22 April - 3 May, 2019 Monday, 22 April Time Room Title of Event Organizer Interpretation 13:15 - 14:30 CR-1, UN Achieving the promise of the International Year of Indigenous Languages - outcomes, legacies The Assembly of First Nations and the Missions of EN/ES/FR Headquarters and future work Ecuador, Canada, Australia and Norway 13:15 - 14:30 CR-7, UN Promoting effective participation of indigenous peoples in UN processes and its impact at the United Nations Office of the High Commssioner EN/ES/FR/RU Headquarters country and community levels: success stories and lessons learned from the grantees of the for Human Rights (OHCHR), Permanent Mission of United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples Norway, Denmark and Finland 13:15 - 14:30 S-1521, UN Panel "A Different Paradigm: Global Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge and Mental Health Health Subcommittee - NGO Committee on the Secretariat and Wellbeing" Rights of Indigenous Peoples, American Psychological 14:00 - 15:30 Amartya Sen, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, Traditional Knowledge and the new UN BBNJ Treaty International Indian Treaty Council, Delegation of UNDP FF the Federated States of Micronesia, United Building, 304 E Confederacy of Taino People, Alifuru Council, 45th St, 10th Fl Tribal Link Foundation 14:00 - 15:30 Rio Room, UNDP Human Rights Defenders, water summit and Sterilization of Indigenous Women AIM-WEST, American Indian Movement, Leonard FF Building, 304 Peltier Support Comite, Black Hills Clear Water E 45th St, 9th Fl Alliance and National Code-Talker 16:45 - 18:15 CR-6, UN Preserving traditional knowledge on indigenous midwifery: good practices and challenges CHIRAPAQ Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú EN/ES Headquarters 18:30 - 20:00 CR-4, UN Youth Forum on Areas of Concern to Indigenous Communities: Social, Economic and First Peoples Investment Engagement Program; EN/ES/FR Headquarters Environmental Development Impacts Global Indigenous Youth Caucus; Casey Family Programs; Tribal Link Foundation 18:30 - 20:00 CR-6, UN Safeguarding Living Heritage United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural EN/ES/FR Headquarters Organization (UNESCO), Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 18:30 - 20:00 CR-7, UN Pawanka -an indigenous led fund- supporting traditional knowledge and innovations Pawanka Fund EN/ES Headquarters Tuesday, 23 April 09:45 - 11:15 CR-6, UN Quarterly Review Sharpening a global response through the organization of the 2019 UNESCO ES Headquarters International Year of Indigenous Languages 12:15-13:45 Rio Room, UNDP Traditional Knowledge - indigenous territories and food sovereignty Cultural Survival, Maya Leaders Allaince Amazon FF Building, 304 Watch E 45th St, 9th Fl 12:15 - 13:45 Amartya Sen, Fight against biopiracy: available tools and best practices France Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrand ; EN/ES/FR UNDP FF Grand conseil coutumier des peuples amérindiens Building, 304 E et bushinenges ; Institut Kanak des Plantes, de 45th St, 10th Fl l’Artisanat et des Langues Autochtones 13:15 - 14:29 CR-4, UN Traditional Knowledge: Forest Governance and Tenure as Climate Change Solution CADPI, AMAN, IPMG, FILAC and The Tenure Headquarters Facility 13:15 - 14:30 CR-6, UN Mechanisms for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge Permanent Mission of Ecuador EN/ES Headquarters associated with Biodiversity within the framework of the Nagoya Protocol Global Project ABS-PNUD-GEF-UNV / Ecuador 13:15 - 14:30 CR-7, UN The Future work on Traditional Knowledge in the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Agenda of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity EN/ES Headquarters Convention on Biological Diversity (IIFB), Indigenous Women Biodiversity Network (IWBN) SwedBio ,Indigenous Information Network, Sotzil, and Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) 13:15 - 14:45 S-1521, UN Batwa Women Under Assault Réseau Initiative for Equality (RIFE) – DRC and Secretariat partners 13:15 - 14:45 S-1525, UN The Use of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in rehabilitation and healing programs for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Women's Circle Secretariat Women Victims of Domestic Violence Corporation (SAWCC) 14:00 - 15:30 Rio Room, UNDP Indigenous rights to health and wellbeing a New Zealand view Toputanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa, New FF Building, 304 Zealand Nurses Organisation E 45th St, 9th Fl 14:00 - 15:30 Amartya Sen, The Right to Housing for Indigenous Persons UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing UNDP FF Building, 304 E 45th St, 10th Fl 15:00 - 16:30 CR-6, UN Intercultural approaches to health PAHO/OPS EN/ES Headquarters 16:45 - 18:15 CR-6, UN The Role of Traditional Games and Sports to Protect and Promote Indigenous Languages WIN Sport International EN/ES/FR/RU Headquarters 18:30 - 20:00 CR-4, UN Forest Defenders: New Threats & New Responses UN Environment, AmazonWatch, Pachamama EN/ES/PO Headquarters Alliance, RRI, Tebtebba, Ford Foundation, etc. 18:30 - 20:00 CR-7, UN Production and Transmission of Traditional Knowledge in Indigenous Understandings Indigenous Studies of University of Helsinki Headquarters Wednesday, 24 April 09:45 - 11:15 CR-6, UN SDGs, Climate Change and Traditional Knowledge: Updates from the High-level Political Forum Indigenous Peoples Major Group on Sustainable ES Headquarters (HLPF), Global Landscape Forum (GLF), and the Facilitative Working Group (FWG) on the LCIPP Development (IPMG), International Indian Treaty Council 11:30 - 12:45 CR-6, UN Violence Against Indigenous Women in the United States—How indigenous nations and Indian Law Resource Center, National Congress of Headquarters women are leading the movement to end the epidemic of violence against them Amerian Indians, National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, Alaska Native Women's Resource Center 12:15 - 13:45 Amartya Sen, Traditional Knowledge as a tool to advance Indigenous Peoples' Rights - examples from the Sámi Parliament in Sweden UNDP FF Sámi People in Sweden Building, 304 E 45th St, 10th Fl 12:15 - 13:45 Rio Room, UNDP “The Forgotten Peoples” – Struggles for the Recognition of Indigenous peoples in Canada Congress of Aboriginal Peoples FF Building, 304 E 45th St, 9th Fl 13:15 - 14:30 CR-4, UN Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: Emerging Research on Traditional Knowledge and International Labour Organization (ILO), The Headquarters Livelihoods Indigenous Peoples' Major Group for Sustainable Development (IPMG), Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and UNFCCC 13:15 - 14:30 CR-6, UN Saving indigenous languages: Russian Experience Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation Headquarters 13:15 - 14:30 CR-7, UN The creation of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples and Mexico’s new Relationship Misión Permanente de México ES/EN Headquarters with Indigenous and Afromexican Peoples / La creación del Instituto Nacional de Pueblos Indígenas y la Nueva Relación del Estado Mexicano con los Pueblos Indígenas y Afromexicano 13:15 - 14:45 S-1520, UN Indigenous Language Youth Advocates: Fruits of Advocacy Mokuola Honua: Global Center for Indigenous Secretariat Language Excellence 13:15 - 14:45 S-1521, UN Indigenous Children’s Rights – how to take action in Indigenous communities Inuit Circumpolar Council EN/ES Secretariat 13:15 - 14:45 S-1519, UN Panel Discussion: Aloha 'Aina: Ancestral Hawaiian Knowledge for Food Sustainability KAMAKAKŪOKALANI CENTER FOR HAWAIIAN ES/FR Secretariat STUDIES 14:00 - 15:30 Amartya Sen, Community-Driven Strategies: Indigenous Women and Climate Action Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office & ES UNDP, UNDP FF MADRE Building, 304 E 45th St, 10th Fl 14:00 - 15:30 Rio Room, UNDP The State of Indigenous Community Media Globally Indigenous Media Caucus, Cultural Survival, The FF Building, 304 Network of Central American Indigenous E 45th St, 9th Fl Community Radio Stations 16:45 - 18:15 CR-6, UN Assessing the roles of indigenous peoples and local governments in the generation, IPACC EN/FR Headquarters transmission and protection of traditional knowledge in Africa. 18:30 - 20:00 CR-4, UN Climate change effects on Indigenous peoples food systems: The importance of indigenous FAO, UNESCO, UNFCCC EN/ES Headquarters languages to ensure traditional knowledge 18:30 - 20:00 CR-6, UN Is it possible to create technical tools for indigenous languages? Norway, the Sámediggi (Sami Parliament in ES Headquarters Norway), Divvun at the Arctic University of Norway 18:30 - 20:00 CR-7, UN First Nations' Women Issues and Security Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador, EN/ES Headquarters Asssembly of First Nations, Innu Council of Nitassinan (Armand McKenzie) Thursday, 25 April 09:45 - 11:15 CR-6, UN Indigenous peoples as stewards of the global environment GEF Secretariat and GEF/UNDP Small Grants EN/ES Headquarters Programme 11:30 - 13:00 CR-6, UN Addressing and Preventing Criminalization and Impunity Against Indigenous Peoples: The Asian Indigenous Women's Network, Tebtebba ES/FR Headquarters Urgency for a Global Campaign 12:15 - 13:45 Amartya Sen, Indigenous women land defenders of the Americas protecting forests, climate and WECAN international, Pathways to Peace UNDP FF communities Building, 304 E 45th St, 10th Fl 12:15 - 13:45 Rio Room, UNDP Sámi youth, the use and consolidation of the sámi language Sáminuorra FF Building, 304 E 45th St, 9th Fl 13:15 - 14:30 CR-4, UN Successful policy engagements: what works and what not? IFAD / IWGIA EN/ES Headquarters 13:15 - 14:30 CR-6, UN Launch of Tuberculosis study