UN / BOLIVIA INDIGENOUS FORUM

Indigenous leaders from the Plurinational State of Bolivia presented a series of proposals at the United Nations to address global issues from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples. UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:02:54
• Production Date: 24 April 2025
• Asset Language: Spanish
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES - UNPFII
• Subject Topical: NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; MEDICINE; DRUGS OF ABUSE
• Geographic Subject: BOLIVIA
• MAMS Id: 3363888
• Parent Id: 3363888
• Alternate Title: unifeed250424c

Description

STORY: UN / BOLIVIA INDIGENOUS FORUM
TRT: 02:54
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 24 APRIL 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

24 APRIL 2025, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Lucio Quispe Sangalli, Executive, Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers, Bolivia:
“The name of the Forum has to be changed to the name Permanent Forum of Indigenous Peoples. That is our approach, brothers. The Forum must make decisions for us to be incorporated into all instances of the United Nations. Likewise, indigenous peoples can no longer participate in the United Nations as NGOs. What we are seeing today in this Forum is sometimes not good. And we, as indigenous people, should participate with our own identities as indigenous peoples.”
4. Wide shot, dais
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Lucio Quispe Sangalli, Executive, Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers, Bolivia:
“We, as indigenous people are going to ask the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the cosmobiocentric view of indigenous peoples. That is why we demand, brothers, to the Annual Assembly of Mother Earth to mark the International Day of Mother Earth, which happened yesterday and the day before yesterday. That is why we will ask for a summit to be held in 2030.”
6. Wide shot, dais
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Justo Molina Barranco, President, Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the East, Chaco and Amazonia (CIDOB):
“We must thoroughly review the document and the operating mechanisms of the Permanent Forum, so that indigenous peoples can have direct participation and are directly heard and are able to express our voice within the Forum instead of being represented by NGOs or foundations. We can have leaders from the territories, speaking and explaining the needs and demands that we have and that we bring as ancient experts.”
8. Wide shot, dais
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Guillermina Cuno, Executive, Bartolina Sisa Women's Confederation, Bolivia:
“I want to ask the Permanent Forum to support the process for the inclusion of the Sacred Coca Leaf. Our sacred coca leaf is medicine, isn't it? And also, it serves to ask of our Mother Earth, to produce our products in our communities.”
10. Wide shot, end of briefing

Storyline

Indigenous leaders from the Plurinational State of Bolivia today (24 Apr) presented a series of proposals at the United Nations to address global issues from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples.

Speaking to reporters, Lucio Quispe Sangalli, who is the Chief of the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers said the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues should change its name to Permanent Forum of Indigenous Peoples and stressed that indigenous peoples “can no longer participate in the United Nations as NGOs(Non-Governmental Organizations).”

Quispe Sangalli said, “what we are seeing today in this Forum is sometimes not good. And we, as indigenous people, should participate with our own identities as indigenous peoples.”

The indigenous leader said, “we, as indigenous people are going to ask the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the cosmobiocentric view of indigenous peoples” and “will ask for a summit to be held in 2030” to discuss issues from an indigenous people’s perspective.

The President of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the East, Chaco and Amazonia (CIDOB), Justo Molina Barranco, said, “we must thoroughly review the document and the operating mechanisms of the Permanent Forum, so that indigenous peoples can have direct participation and are directly heard, and are able to express our voice within the Forum instead of being represented by NGOs or foundations. We can have leaders from the territories, speaking and explaining the needs and demands that we have and that we bring as ancient experts.”

For her part, Guillermina Cuno, who is the Executive at the Bartolina Sisa Women's Confederation said, “I want to ask the Permanent Forum to support the process for the inclusion of the Sacred Coca Leaf. Our Sacred Coca Leaf is medicine, isn't it? And also, it serves to ask of our Mother Earth, to produce our products in our communities.”

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is a high- level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council. The Forum was established on 28 July 2000 by resolution 2000/22, with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights.