National Institutions on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

In its latest issue of the newsletter, infocus, India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights makes appropriate recommendations to improve the conditions of the internally displaced children including the indigenous Brus sheltered in Tripura State of India. The NCPCR visited the camps of indigenous Bru Internally Displaced Persons in Tripura State of India on 8-9 September 2008 following a complaint of AITPN on 17 June 2008 against the non-inclusion of 7,204 Bru children since 2003.

AITPN has been in the forefront of making Asian indigenous peoples' submissions for inclusion into the 10 page stakeholders' summary prepared by the OHCHR. AITPN in association with a number of indigenous organisations made the stakeholders' submission on Malaysia and Bangladesh which are scheduled to be examined at the forthcoming fourth session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council (2 - 13 February 2009).