UNO: Working Group on Indigenous Peoples

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As always at the UN, this working group meets but once a year. It is plain to see that it is a complex task to summon export from <I>all over</I> the world. Therefore, the WGIP is tradionally meeting in the last week of July and lasts five days. And every year delegates from Action Group Native Americans & Human Rights attend these meetings, with speeches of their own, news making and lobbying. <P> By the way, »populations« is a rather hair-splitting juridical trick to not having to start a debate about land rights issues just because of the name of this UN body, as would be the case if it used the term <I>peoples</I>. But most delegates ignore this subtlety, and so most commonly the working group is being referred to as Working Group on Indigenous Peoples. <P> On this sub-page all repots about the activites of Action Group Native Americans & Human Rights (formerly Big Mountain Action Group) e.V. at the Working Group will be collected. Currently these reports are online: <UL> <LI>The <A HREF="study/index.html">Martínez</A> report about the contractual rights of Indigenous Peoples from the 16th session, July 26th until 31st, 1998. <LI><A HREF="wgip97/index.html">Impressions</A> in photographic images from the 15th session in July 1997. <LI><A HREF="wgip2000/index.html">New!</A> Photos from the 18th session, the last before the new millennium begins, July 2000. </UL> </LI> </DIV> <CENTER> <SMALL><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, Times" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"> According to <A HREF="http://www.b-online.de" TARGET="_new"><B>WebHits</B></A> you are visitor no. <IMG SRC="http://www.b-online.de/cgi/Count.cgi?dd=tinyred&ft=0&md=5&tr=T&df=19867.dat" WIDTH=45 HEIGHT=13 ALT="[Count]"> on this site. 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