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International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)

Time for Solutions Submission to the 6th World Water Forum March 2012

Friday, 16 March 2012
Time for Solutions Submission to the 6th World Water Forum Marseille, France March 12-16, 2012 Submitted by the Indigenous World Forum on Water and Peace Download Statement As representatives of the International Advisory Committee for the Indigenous World Forum on Water and Peace and other Indigenous nations and peoples, we proclaim the responsibility to honor and respect water as a sacred being that sustains all of life. Humans and all living things have the right to water, but water also has rights.
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Emergence of a Right to Respect and to the Endogenous Development of Indigenous Peoples

Wednesday, 02 March 2011
Kinhide Mushakoji Vice President, IMADR: The 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took place in Nagoya in October 2010. The meeting was an occasion for the international community to develop a new world view on life and its diversity and strengthen the CBD insistence on the wisdom of indigenous peoples on life and its diversity, establishing a precious precedent for human rights insisting on the right to respect of the indigenous peoples.
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Report on Global Celebrations of the International Year of Biodiversity

Friday, 12 November 2010
September 2010: Dear Madam/Sir, The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is pleased to share highlights of the global celebrations of the International Year of Biodiversity for September 2010. The report is accessible at the CBD website at: www.cbd.int/iyb/doc/prints/iyb-report-2010-09-en.pdf
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