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Index - Documents - Reports Sámegillii Norsk   Print!         Reports Samisk opplæring - rettigheter og plikter Elevenes rett til opplæring i eller på samisk – hva innebærer dette for skoleeier?02.06.2010  State of the World’s Indigenous PeoplesUN - Department of Economic and Social Affairs14.01.2010  THE SITUATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BOTSWANA04.03.2010  OBSERVATIONS ON THE NORTHERN TERRITORY EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN AUSTRALIA26.02.2010  Arctic Oil and Gas 200718.02.2010  PRELIMINARY NOTE ON THE SITUATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BOTSWANA18.02.2010  REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN NEPAL18.02.2010  REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL18.02.2010  PRELIMINARY NOTE ON THE SITUATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN AUSTRALIA18.02.2010  Report of the International Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Peoples: Development with Culture and Identity Articles 3 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples12.02.2010  Committee on the Rights of the ChildConsideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 44 of the Convention08.02.2010  Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development22.01.2010  COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF NICARAGUAUN Press Release28.02.2008  COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF UNITED STATES UN Press Release26.02.2008  The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders concludes her mission to GuatemalaUN Press Release26.02.2008  Conference on Climate Change and Migration: Addressing Vulnerabilities and Harnessing Opportunities19 February 2008 GenevaClimate Change, Migration and Human Rights: Address by Ms. Kyung-wha Kang Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 26.02.2008  PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENTHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL07.01.2008  PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS,HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL07.01.2008  PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENTHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL07.01.2008  "MAJOR STEP FORWARD" TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL, SAYS PRESIDENTGENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES27.12.2007  REPORT ON INDIGNEOUS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO CLIMATE CHANGE INTER ALIA OF THE ARCTIC, SMALL ISLAND STATES AND HIGH ALTITUDES, WITH A FOCUS ON CAUSES AND SOLUTIONSJohn B. Henriksen05.12.2007  CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ WATER SECURITY, LAND USE, AMONG ISSUESAS DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS SERIES OF ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS07.09.2007  STUDY OF THE PROBLEM OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INDIGENOUS POPULATIONSUN, New York 1987VOLUME V, CONCLUSIONS, PROPOSALS AND RECOMMENDATION05.09.2007  ARCTIC REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ TERRITORIES, LANDS AND NATURAL RESOURCESCopenhagen, 26 – 27 March 200705.04.2007  Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic 220307The SLiCA report and other documents can be downloaded at www.arcticlivingconditions.org23.03.2007  Stavehagen Annual Report to HRC 2006The annual report to the Human Rights Council in Spanish.22.03.2007  Press release: Stavenhagen Annual Report to HRC 2006United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, today presented his annual report to the Human Rights Council. The report focuses on the state of human rights of indigenous peoples around the world and on the challenges to the protection of these rights. 22.03.2007  WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT CRUCIAL TO ERASING PERSISTENT POVERTY, DISEASE, DISCRIMINATION WORLDWIDE, COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN TOLDDepartment of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York05.03.2007  COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF CANADA UN Press Release23.02.2007  SAARC HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2006Asian Centre for Human RightsAsian Centre for Human Rights has released a comprehensive human report on human rights in the South Asian countries. Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has identified nine thematic issues including indigenous peoples human rights. 14.12.2006  THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION ON RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT; VOTES TO DEFER ACTION CONCERNING DECLARATION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLESDepartment of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York29.11.2006  Indigenous Peoples` Caucus: delaying of adoption will be against human rights standards23.11.2006  THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR, BELARUS; REJECTS TEXTS ON CANADA, UNITED STATESDepartment of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York23.11.2006  THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION URGING FULL RESPECT FOR ALL HUMAN RIGHTS BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York20.11.2006  DELEGATES WORRY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL COULD SQUANDER CHANCE TO RESPOND TO ABUSES IT. WAS SET UP TO ADDRESS, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY REVIEWS COUNCIL’S FIRST REPORTUN Department of Public Information - News and Media Division13.11.2006  RISE OF RACISM, INTOLERANCE IS SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD UN - Department of Public Information - News and Media DivisionAt Outset of Discussion on Racial Discrimination, Self-Determination. Speakers address Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Use of Mercenaries13.11.2006  STAVENHAGEN REPORTS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN MEXICAN CRACKDOWN ON OXACAUN Special Rapporteur extremely concerned with use of force to counter protests in Oxaca.02.11.2006  VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN NOT CONFINED TO SPECIFIC CULTURE OR REGION,THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD AS DEBATE BEGINS ON ADVANCEMENT OF WOMENUN. Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York12.10.2006  FOURTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES DECOLONIZATION DEBATE, HEARING PETITIONERS FROM WESTERN SAHARA, NEW CALEDONIAUN, Department of Public Information, News and Media Division, New York06.10.2006  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES DISCUSSION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY OFFICE OF HIGH COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN RIGHTSHuman Rights Council29.09.2006  WORDS REPLACE WEAPONS’ IN NORTHERN IRELAND; UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION TO HELP HEAL LEGACY OF DIVISION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD AS DEBATE CONTINUESUN, Department of Public Information, News and Media Division, New YorkRethink ‘Development Cocktail’, Create New Global Economic Order, Fair Trade Rules, Belize Says, Stressing Role for Small States in Peace, Security 29.09.2006  Address by Ms. Louise Arbour UN High Commissioner for Human Rightson the occasion of the 2nd Session of the Human Rights Council29.09.2006  COUNCIL REVIEWS HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, BURUNDI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO AND MYANMARHuman Rights Council28.09.2006  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES REPORTS ON CUBA, OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, CAMBODIA AND HAITIHuman Rights Council28.09.2006  COUNCIL DISCUSSES REPORTS ON FOREIGN DEBT, MERCENARIES, HOUSING, EDUCATION, TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND COUNTER-TERRORISMHuman Rights Council28.09.2006  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES REPORTS ON TORTURE, ARBITRARY DETENTION AND INDEPENDENCE OF JUDGES AND LAWYERSHuman Rights Council, UNITED NATIONS Press Release22.09.2006  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES, MINORITY ISSUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLEUNITED NATIONS Press Release 20.09.2006  UN WORKING GROUP ON THE USE OF MERCENARIES CONCLUDES VISIT TO ECUADOR04.09.2006  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS TEXTS FOR PROTECTION FROM ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE, RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES31.08.2006  First session of theHuman Rights CouncilJune 19-30,2006Indigenous Peoples` Center for Documentation, Research and Information 31.08.2006  SUB-COMMISSION SUSPENDS CONSIDERATION OF SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, AND TAKES UP PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATIONUNITED NATIONS Press Release31.08.2006  Opening address by Mr. Alessio Bruni to the 87th session of the Human Rights Committee, 10-28 July 2United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights12.07.2006  Extends Mandate of Working Group on Drafting Optional ProtocolHuman Rights CouncilExtends Mandate of Working Group on Drafting Optional Protocol to International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights01.07.2006  UN EXPERT URGES HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL TO ADOPT DRAFT DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES01.07.2006  COUNCIL CONCLUDES DISCUSSIONHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCILCOUNCIL CONCLUDES DISCUSSION ON REPORT OF WORKING GROUP ON DRAFT CONVENTION AGAINST ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE01.07.2006  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES REPORT OF WORKING GROUP ON DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLEHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL01.07.2006  SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE HUMAN RIGHTSUNITED NATIONSSPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE URGES HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL TO ADOPT THE UN DRAFT DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 01.07.2006  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONSIDERS REPORTS OF WORKING GROUPS ON DURBAN DECLARATION AND RIGHT TO DEVELOPMHuman Rights Council27.06.2006  DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS ON TOKELAU, NEW CALEDONIADepartment of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York26.06.2006  ‘THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE UPON YOU’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN ADDRESS TO FIRST MEETINGUN Human Rights Council24.06.2006  Hears Statements from Ministers and Other Dignitaries from 16 CountriesHuman Rights Council22.06.2006  COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD EXAMINES REPORT OF MEXICOUN Press Release24.05.2006  COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES THIRTY-SIXTH SESSIONUN Press ReleaseIssues Concluding Observations on Reports of Monaco, Liechtenstein, Canada, Mexico, and Morocco22.05.2006  COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS REVIEWS FOURTH PERIODIC REPORT OF MEXICO11.05.2006  UNITED NATIONS EXPERT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE CONCLUDES VISIT TO ECUADOR05.05.2006  THE UNITED NATIONS ON THE FORESHORE: A SUMMARY OF THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR.- Moana Jackson05.05.2006  COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES ITS SIXTY-SECOND AND LAST SESSIONCommission on Human Rights 27 March 200630.03.2006  doCip UPDATE 67NOVEMBER 2005 / FEBRUARY 2006INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ CENTRE FOR DOCUMENTATION, RESEARCH AND INFORMATION28.03.2006  COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONCLUDES SIXTY-EIGHTH SESSIONIssues Concluding Observations on Reports of Mexico, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Guyana and Botswana14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issues - Mission to South AfricaReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen. Analysis of country situations and other activities of the Special Rapporteur14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE EXPERT SEMINAR ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND EDUCATION14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE EXPERT SEMINAR ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND EDUCATION14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen. Analysis of country situations and other activities of the Special Rapporteur14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen.14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issues - Mission to ChileReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights andfundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 2003/5614.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issues - Mission to MexicoReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights andfundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen 14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen. Analysis of country situations and other activities of the Special Rapporteur14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issues - Communications received by the Special RapporteurReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 2002/65. Communications received by the Special Rapporteur14.03.2006  Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people - Report of the Special RappReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 2001/65*14.03.2006  Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peopleReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 2001/57. Selected summaries of communications examined by the Special Rapporteur in 2001/200214.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issuesCOMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, Fifty-eighth session, Item 15 of the provisional agenda. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 2001/57 14.03.2006  The situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people14.03.2006  The situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peopleFifty-ninth session, Item 104 of the provisional agenda Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995-2004) 14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issues - Mission to The PhilippinesReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/6514.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issues - Mission to GuatemalaReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen. Submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 2001/5714.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issues - Mission to ColombiaReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen14.03.2006  Human rights and indigenous issues - Mission to CanadaReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen14.03.2006  Conclusions and recommendations of The Expert Seminar on Indigenous Peoples and EducationCommission on Human Rights01.11.2005  Indigenous Women: A Gender Perspectiveby Chandra K. Roy05.01.2005  Sami landrights, Norwegian laws and administrationBy Eva Josefsen05.01.2005  Report on channels for Sami politicial influenceby Eva Josefsen05.01.2005