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STORY: UN / INDIGENOUS PEOPLES PROGRESS
TRT: 01:44
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 APRIL 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, aerial view of United Nations Headquarters
27 APRIL 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rune Fjellheim, Saami Parliament:
“We find it encouraging that states manage to actually agree with us as long as we meet on a global level. But the real challenge of course is how does this then turn into policies when we go back home.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Royal Johan Kxao /Ui/o/oo, Deputy Minister of Marginalized Communities, Namibia:
“We need to do more as a country for the marginalized communities but due to limited resources, we can only just implement actions within our means. We therefore urge the United Nations and the United Nations agencies to continue and strengthen its support to member states in the implementations of its programs. We also urge the United Nations system to continue with the implementation of equal representation of all indigenous people from different continents in its decision making process.”
7. Various shots, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jesus Guadalupe Fuentes Blanco, Vice Chair, Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues:
“I believe that land, territories, all the environmental components, it’s been demonstrated that indigenous peoples and communities is where they are better preserved and where they are best kept. So I think we have something to teach the states, the Western cultures.”
9. Med shot, dais
11. Wide shot, end of presser
Three years since the first World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, indigenous leaders called for greater participation and government policies that implement the conference’s objectives.
Talking to journalists in New York today, (27 Apr) Rune Fjellheim, a member of the indigenous Saami Parliament in Norway, said it was “encouraging that states manage to actually agree with us” but added that “the real challenge of course is how does this then turn into policies when we go back home”
Royal Johan Kxao /Ui/o/oo, the Deputy Minister of Marginalized Communities of Namibia said “we need to do more as a country for the marginalized communities but due to limited resources, we can only just implement actions within our means.”
He urged the United Nations “to continue and strengthen its support to member states in the implementations of its programs” and “to continue with the implementation of equal representation of all indigenous people from different continents in its decision making process.”
The Vice Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Jesus Guadalupe Fuentes Blanco, said that “land, territories, all the environmental components, it’s been demonstrated that indigenous peoples and communities is where they are better preserved and where they are best kept. So I think we have something to teach the states, the Western cultures.”
The first World Conference on Indigenous Peoples was held on 22-23 September 2014. The meeting was an opportunity to share perspectives and best practices on the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples, including pursuing the objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
