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Selected Press Releases
31.07.15
At Geneva meeting, UNESCO affirms its commitment to Indigenous Peoples Rights
UNESCO is fully committed to engage with indigenous peoples as a genuine wellspring of knowledge and strength, to help meet the challenges of sustainable development in all areas of its mandate. This was the key message of UNESCO’s special event that was organized at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 22 July 2015, with the participation of Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as one of speakers, as well as experts from UNESCO Secretariat.

The objective of this meeting, held on the margins of the 8th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), was to present an update on the on-going work in the elaboration of UNESCO’s policy on engaging with indigenous peoples and to collect comments and inputs from indigenous peoples’ representatives in the process…