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Pre-registration for the Seventh Session of the United Nations
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Is Now Open

Special theme: Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods: the stewardship role of indigenous peoples and new challenges

21 April - 2 May, 2008
UN Headquarters, New York

Provisional agenda and documentation for the seventh session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

1. Election of officers.
2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work.
3. Special theme: “Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods: the
   stewardship role of indigenous peoples and new challenges”.
4. Implementation of the recommendations on the six mandated areas of the
   Permanent Forum and on the Millennium Development Goals:
   • (a) Economic and social development;
     (b) Environment;
     (c) Health;
     (d) Education;
     (e) Culture;
     (f) Human rights
5. Human rights: dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
   rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people and other special
   rapporteurs.
6. Half-day discussion on the Pacific.
7. Half-day discussion on indigenous languages.
8. Ongoing priorities and themes and follow-up:
   (a) Indigenous children and youth;
   (b) Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People;
   (c) Urban indigenous peoples and migration.
9. Future work of the Permanent Forum, including emerging issues.
10. Draft agenda for the eighth session of the Permanent Forum.
11. Adoption of the report of the Permanent Forum on its seventh session.

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