Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Development in Territories of Indigenous Peoples

Sustainable development in territories of indigenous peoples (Article 4 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)

Article 4

Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.

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Programme of work

Background documents:

Concept note

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Report on the Seventh Session (Lands, Territories and Resources)

Indigenous peoples' permanent sovereignty over natural resources: Final report of the Special Rapporteur, Erica-Irene A. Daes

Indigenous peoples and their relationship to land: Final report of the Special Rapporteur, Erica-Irene A. Daes

 

Papers submitted by experts:

Eirik Larsen: Sustainable Development in the Territories of Indigenous Peoples – Opening Introduction

Elifuraha Laltaika & Kelly Askew: Modes of Dispossession of Indigenous Lands and Territories in Africa

Ricardo Camilo Niño Izquierdo: El Desarrollo sostenible y los pueblos indígenas

Betty Lyons: Intervention "Regional cases of autonomy in the territories of Indigenous Peoples"

Mariaelena Huambachano: Enacting Food Sovereignty in New Zealand and Peru

https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/meetings-and-workshops/egm2018.html