http://www.docip.org/ Latest News from docip.org en http://www.docip.org/fileadmin/templates/docip41/images/tt_news_article.gif http://www.docip.org/ 18 16 Latest News from docip.org TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 14 May 2012 06:02:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5af0bfec5f4.0.html The annual Meeting of the Documentation Network Regrouping specialized documentation centres on... French – Monday, 14 May, 1:15 – 2:30pm English – Monday, 14 May, 6:15 – 7:30pm Spanish – Tuesday, 15 May, 1:15 – 2:30pm Russian – Wednesday, 16 May, 10:00 – 11:15am Location: UN Headquarters, North Lawn Building – area behind meeting Room A (where the UN self-service computers are located) Agenda items

• distribution of the new doCip CD on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
• use of Permanent Forum databases;
• consultation mechanism of indigenous communities/organizations from around the world on information and documentation issues, and on how to establish a list of indigenous experts.

]]> General News Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Documentation Center Mon, 14 May 2012 05:54:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M50b2da66641.0.html DoCip organises the following trainings during the 11th session of the UNPFII, in partnership with... Wednesday, 9 May 2012 Effective And Meaningful Participation In The UNPFII 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. in English - Russian by: Andrea Carmen, International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) 4.45 - 6:00 p.m. in Spanish - French by: Estebancio Castro, International Indian Treaty Council and the Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests Friday, 11 May 2012 Indigenous participation to the Special Procedures dealing with human rights violations 1:15 - 2:45 in English - Russian by: Rodion Sulyandziga, Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples Of the North (RAIPON) 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. in Spanish - French by: Miguel Valbuena Guauriyu, Akuaipa Waimakat, Asociación para la Divulgación, Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos e Indígenas, Columbia Location: Baha’i International Center - 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 120, Ground Floor – Exit the main entrance of the UN, turn right but remain on the same sidewalk and walk north, crossing two streets. It is located there in the large brown office building. Open to all delegates Snacks and beverages will be provided With the support of the Swiss Development Agency ( SDC),  the Canton and the City of Geneva  and the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations New training database You will find here a new documentation database entitled "training database". Organised by themes (UNPFII, EMRIP, UPR, Treaty Bodies, SRIP, human rights), this documentary database gathers 64 documents relating to trainings in four languages (pdf and audio files). It also includes background documents on the above mentioned processes and offers searching facilities to look for trainings by title, author, theme, language or date.]]> General News Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Capacity Building Tue, 01 May 2012 00:37:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5720a3fce05.0.html During the 11th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues which will take place in New... here. DoCip gathers, files and posts on line, as soon as possible once received, all the declarations read during the Permanent Forum. They are available from the documentary database of doCip’s website, by clicking here or by going on www.docip.org, to Documentation –> online documentation -> Conferences -> Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues -> 2012. To offer logistical support to the work of the indigenous delegations, doCip’s team gathers more than 60 volunteers and offers the following free services:

• Translations to and from English, French, Spanish and Russian
• Interpretation to and from English, French, Spanish and Russian for informal meetings
• Information on the 11th session of the Permanent Forum
• IT support
• Guidance for new participants
• Photocopies and other administrative tasks

In order to provide these services, doCip’s technical secretariat puts the following at the disposal of indigenous peoples :

• An office to use as workspace
• Several computers and a printer
• Internet connexions
• Telephone lines with local service
• A fax line with local service
• Photocopiers
• Office supplies

]]> General News Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:23:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M571d587b740.0.html The annual reunion of the Documentation Network Regrouping Specialized Documentation Centres on... Wednesday May 9, 2012 or Friday May 11, 2012 from 1:15pm to 2:30 pm (exact date and location according to the program of parallel events), in the framework of the 11th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), which will take place in New York from May 7 to 18, 2012. The Network was created in 2003 by indigenous organisations from various regions of the world. Its goal is to facilitate the exchanges between the member organisations of the Network, to inform on their achievements in documentation, to discuss common issues, notably concerning the use of new communication technologies, and to decide on new projects, notably in the field of specialised trainings. It gathers today 150 member organisations (see attached list). The documentation Network has contributed so far to several trainings in documentation, in English, Spanish, French and Russian, the creation of CDs and DVDs, an on-line catalogue of websites, etc. The reunion is open to everyone who is interested in documentation/information relating to indigenous issues. Proposed detailed agenda This proposed agenda is opened to discussion with the network’s members. Thank you for contacting Pierrette Birraux of doCip if you have any suggestions: pierrette@docip.org 1.    Nomination of the presidency 2.    Adoption of the agenda 3.    Presentation of the participants and of their activities in documentation 4.    Proposal of the Secretariat (doCip) a) How to use the documentary database of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues –on screen demonstration. b) Presentation of doCip’s CD on the drafting process of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – on screen demonstration and distribution of the CDs. c) How to establish a consultation process of the indigenous communities/organisations of the various regions of the world, on various subjects, in order to adjust doCip’s activities of documentation and information to their needs? d) What are the thematic priorities for inclusion in the consultation process? For example: human rights, biodiversity, climate change, women, children, young people & education, health, traditional knowledge, heritage and intellectual property, territory & resources, free, prior and informed consent, etc. e) Elaboration of a list of indigenous experts on the different subjects. 5.    Others  ]]> General News Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Documentation Center Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:14:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5f328a1aec5.0.html During its second session from 7 to 11 May 2012, the Working Group on the issue of human rights and... here a concept note to inform of the consultation. The consultation will take place from 15:00 to 17:00 on Thursday 10 May 2012 at Room XVIII, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Please check the website closer to the date to verify any changes in the location or time of the meeting. A listen-in number will be enabled to allow stakeholders who cannot attend in person to dial in and listen to the exchange. Further details are available on the website below. Stakeholders who are unable to attend may also submit their input to the discussion questions presented in the concept note in writing before 27 April to wg-business@ohchr.org. All stakeholders that will attend are invited to register for the consultation. Information on how to register, an information sheet and a registration form are available here. If after having reviewed the information on the website and in the information sheet that you can download from the website, you have any other queries related to the consultation, please contact wg-business@ohchr.org. Further information The third session of the Working Group will take place from 26-30 November 2012 in Geneva. You will find here a summary of the first session. The Forum on Business and Human Rights is schedulded on 4-5 December 2012 and is open to the participation of all stakeholders, including representatives of indigenous peoples. You will find more detailed information on the Forum here.]]> General News Special Procedures Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:39:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5ccdf2709b7.0.html From 14 May to 18 May 2012, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James... here and here. Requests for a meeting during the Permanent Forum session should be submitted in writing and contain information on the issues to be presented to the Special Rapporteur, or refer to written information previously submitted to him. All requests should also state the names of the persons who will be attending the meeting. Requests should be sent to: indigenous@ohchr.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. For more information on submitting written information to the Special Rapporteur, please click here and here. Because of time limitations, the Special Rapporteur will not be able to meet with all those who request a meeting. Priority will be given to those who submit a request and corresponding written information by 2 May 2012. Whether a meeting is granted, along with information about location and time of the meeting, will be indicated by 9 May 2012. Please note that to meet with the Special Rapporteur during the Permanent Forum, you must also pre-register for its eleventh session. For more information, see the Permanent Forum’s accreditation page here.]]> General News Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Special Procedures Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:46:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5ce62aa2fb7.0.html The 21st session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources,... here. To be accredited to the IGC, an organization should complete the form found here and send it by email to grtkf@wipo.int 2 months before the conference. IGC 22 being scheduled July 9 to 13, 2012, the deadline to apply for accreditation is May 9, 2012.]]> General News WIPO Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:10:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M588d26d1a25.0.html We are happy to inform you that Update 99-100 is now available. Go to the "Update online" section... Update online" section to view the Table of Contents and find the link to the whole issue in PDF format. All previous issues are available in the "All issues" section.]]> General News Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:00:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5200e1f80bb.0.html The International Indigenous Forum has presented two statements at the UN World Intellectual... statement made on February 21, 2012, annouces the withdrawal of indigenous delegations from the work of the Committee. Decided unanimously, this withdrawal is motivated by the lack of consideration for their positions and a procedure which does not allow their full and equitable participation, as recognised by the international standards. The statement made on February 22, 2012, follows the dialogue with the Chair and the Secretariat of the Committee. It announces the reinstatement of indigenous delegations to the process based on the proposals contained in this declaration, which aim at changing the mode of participation of indigenous peoples.]]> General News WIPO Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:43:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5ec78fe678f.0.html On 9 March 2012, the draft resolution entitled: “Indigenous Women: key actors in poverty and hunger... here.]]> General News Other Conferences Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:06:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5b63326a4e5.0.html The Indigenous Fellowship Programme was launched in 1997 by the Office of the High Commissioner for... Tuesday 1 May 2012. OHCHR strongly encourages candidates to send their applications (by post or fax) well before the deadline. Please also note that given the high number of applications that i usually receives, OHCHR is not anymore in a position to print scanned applications. Therefore, scanned applications sent via email will not be taken into consideration. For further information on OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Programme or to find the application form, please visit OHCHR's webpage by clicking on these two links: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/Pages/Fellowship.aspx http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/Pages/IFP.aspx]]> General News Fellowship Programme Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:14:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5a9de6554a5.0.html The new Universal Human Rights Index (UHRI) database allows for the retrieval of individual... http://uhri.ohchr.org]]> General News Documentation Center Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:11:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5729d29cd56.0.html The pre-registration to the 11th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII),... 23 April 2012 – for organisations that attended previous sessions 9 April 2012 – for new organisations. The online pre-registration can be undertaken by clicking here. Click here for the agenda of the session. The special theme of the eleventh session will be “The Doctrine of Discovery: its enduring impact on indigenous peoples and the right to redress for past conquests (articles 28 and 37 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)”. The agenda also includes a half-day discussion on Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia and also a half-day discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples to food and food sovereignty. doCip is not involved in the pre-registration to the UNPFII. All pre-registration-related questions should be sent to the official NGO e-mail address (ngo@un.org). For any other information , please contact the UNPFII Secretariat, tel : +1 917-367-5100. Email: indigenous_un@un.org Finally, please note that the UNPFII website has recently changed and can now by reached at the following address: http://social.un.org/index/IndigenousPeoples.aspx]]> General News Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:42:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M55264d7e833.0.html The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights welcomes submissions on the paper being... by 9 April 2012. See Human Rights Council resolution 18/8 (2011): 13. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, the Office of Legal Affairs and other relevant parts of the Secretariat, to prepare a detailed document on the ways and means of promoting participation at the United Nations of recognized indigenous peoples’ representatives on issues affecting them, given that they are not always organized as non-governmental organizations, and on how such participation might be structured, drawing from, inter alia, the rules governing the participation in various United Nations bodies by non-governmental organizations (including Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31) and by national human rights institutions (including Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/74 of 20 April 2005), and to present it to the Council at its twenty-first session; Responses can be submitted electronically to the OHCHR (Claire Charters at ccharters@ohchr.org) or by mail to the OHCHR, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland (addressed to Claire Charters). Please indicate whether the information provided can be made available on the OHCHR website. For further information, please contact Claire Charters at the above mentioned email address. For more information, please consult the following link (only in English): http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/Pages/ConsultationonIPparticipationintheUN.aspx.]]> General News Expert Mechanism Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:51:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5ff90a44195.0.html The participants in the open-ended Indigenous Peoples' Brainstorming Meeting on the World... The participants in the open-ended Indigenous Peoples' Brainstorming Meeting on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) 2014, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 13-14 January 2012, adopted a resolution, to which you will access by clicking here. Photo courtesy of International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA).  ]]> General News Other Conferences Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:39:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M52a4bb825e3.0.html At its last session in 2011, WIPO General Assembly had agreed on the mandate for the... here. Please note that to be accredited to the IGC, an organization should complete the form found here and send it by email to grtkf@wipo.int 2 months before the conference. IGC 21 being scheduled April 16-20, 2012, the deadline to apply for accreditation is February 16, 2012.]]> General News WIPO Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:08:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M58ff1e8cb31.0.html Official documents and statements of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)... here or follow this path from our website : Documentation center -> Online documentation -> Conferences -> Convention on Biological Diversity -> Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions -> 2011.]]> General News CBD Documentation Center Other Conferences Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:40:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M52031029967.0.html The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) is calling for submissions on the...

indigenous individuals and peoples and/or their representatives

non-state actors including non-governmental organisations

national human rights institutions

any other relevant stakeholders

Submissions will need to be submitted by 17 February 2012 to be taken into account in the Expert Mechanism's study, a draft of which will be finalised in early April 2012 in preparation for the EMRIP's fifth session in July 2012. Please email submissions to Claire Charters at the following email address: ccharters@ohchr.org. For more information, please see the website of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Pages/EMRIPIndex.aspx]]> General News Expert Mechanism Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:50:00 +0100 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M5a4c0efe2bb.0.html The resolution "Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples " which was adopted on September 29, 2011 at... here. The HRC has notably requested the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, the Office of Legal Affairs and other relevant parts of the Secretariat, to prepare a detailed document on ways and means of promoting participation at the United Nations of recognized indigenous peoples’ representatives on issues affecting them, as they are not always organized as non-governmental organizations, and on how such participation might be structured. The HRC has also decided to hold on an annual basis, within existing resources, a half-day panel on the rights of indigenous peoples and, in this regard, to hold, at its twenty-first session, a half-day panel on access to justice by indigenous peoples. The HRC has otherwise requested the Expert Mechanism to prepare a study on the role of languages and culture in the promotion and protection of the rights and identity of indigenous peoples, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-first session.]]> General News Human Rights Council Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:10:00 +0200 http://www.docip.org/News.78+M50b738a460f.0.html On June 17, 2011, the Human Rights Council has adopted the Optional Protocol to the Convention on... here to read the adopted Optional Protocol.]]> Human Rights Council General News Treaty Bodies Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:43:00 +0200