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National Institutions on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples


Prof. James Anaya, Mr. Hans Schoof & Ms Dipa Dixit

New Delhi Guidelines on the establishment of National Institutions on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, New Delhi, October 18-19, 2008


Key presentations at the Regional Conference on the Role of National Institutions on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  • Mr. Hans Schoof, Head of Operations and First Counsellor, Delegation of the European Commission to India (Video link at YouTube)
  • Prof. James Anaya, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous people
    (Video link at YouTube - Part-I, Part-II & Part-III)
  • Ms. Dipa Dixit, Member, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on the Internally Displaced Children in India
    (Video link at YouTube)
  • Mr. Miloon Kothari, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing (Video link at YouTube)
  • Mr. Eugenio A. Insigne, Chairperson, National Commission for Indigenous Peoples (Philippines) & Member, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  • Mr. Arjun Limbu, National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities
  • The Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affiairs of Bangladesh: An agency for discrimination against indigenous Jumma peoples
    The Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affiairs of Bangladesh: An Agency for Discrimination
    The Government Committee is Not Enough: The Case of the Committee for Ethnic Minorities of Vietnam
    The Government Committee is Not Enough: CEMA of Vietnam
    The Department of Orang Asli Affairs, Malaysia - An Agency for Assimilation -
    The Department of Orang Asli Affairs, Malaysia: An Agency for Assimilation
    The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes: A Forum for Political Rehabilitation?
    The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes: A Forum for Political Rehabilitation?
    National Commission on Indigenous Peoples of Philippines: The Contest for Control
    The Contest for Control: The NCIP of Philippines
    NFDIN of Nepal: Obsolete and Outdated
    NFDIN of Nepal: Obsolete and Outdated

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  • Centre and Tripura not putting pressure on Mizoram on the Brus, 5 September 2008
  • AITPN at the 7th Session of the Human Rights Council

  • Choles Ritchil: An indigenous defender tortured to death in Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh: The Army attacks Buddhism to facilitate illegal settlement in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
  • The unresolved case of Enforced disappearance of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Eleventh Panchen Lama
  • National Institutions on Indigenous Peoples: NHRIs of a lesser God
  • Displaced Children Have Rights Too - National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, October 2008

    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.


    UPR and Indigenous Peoples of Asia


    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).


    Malaysia: Extinguishing Indigenous Peoples Rights, 8 September 2008
    Bangladesh: "We want the lands, not the indigenous peoples",
    1 September 2008

    India (National Report of the government)
  • AITPN/IWGIA's submission
  • OHCHR's summary of stakeholders' information
    Indonesia (National Report of the government)
  • AITPN's submission
  • OHCHR's summary of stakeholders' information
    Philippines(National Report of the government)
  • AITPN's submission
  • OHCHR's summary of stakeholders' information
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