Human Rights Defenders and Access to Justice for Indigenous Peoples

We cordially invite all delegations attending the 24th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to a Panel Presentation:

Human Rights Defenders and Access to Justice for Indigenous Peoples

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 2013, 1:15 - 2:45 PM
CONFERENCE ROOM XXL PALAIS DES NATIONS

- Chief Wilton Littlechild, Chair, UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), on the EMRIP Study on Access to Justice
- Dolores Infante-Cahibano, Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, on the Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
- Devasish Roy, member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, on Human Rights Defenders in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
- Leonard Foster, National Native America Prisoners' Rights Coalition, USA, on Leonard Pettier, Indigenous Human Rights Defenders in the US
- Ghazali Ohorella, Alzru, Co-Chair, Global Coordinating Committee for the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and representative of Human Rights Defenders in Maluku
- Andrea Carmen, International Indian Treaty Council, moderator

Co-Sponsored by the International Indian Treaty Council and Incomindios

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