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Grassroots Women Organize around Indigenous Issues and Identity Building  a Global Grassroots Indigenous Women's Network

 

 

Strengthening partnerships to advance the Indigenous Women Platform at the 8th Session of the U.N Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The Huairou Commission would like to congratulate GROOTS Canada, Horizons of Friendship, and the Comite de Emergencia Garifuna de Honduras and La Coordinadora de mujeres por el derecho a la tierra y la propiedad in Guatemala on their successful planning for an international indigenous grassroots women's exchange in Honduras where Aboriginal women from Canada will come together with Garifuna and Mayan women. The Huairou Commission strongly supports the efforts of these women and their work towards increasing ties between grassroots women worldwide.

 

The event will take place on May 3-13th, 2009.

 

Conceived a few months ago when a representative from Honduras traveled to Canada, this exchange resulted in a strong connection between the North and South and has culminated in the coming event. It is an opportunity to bridge the gap between issues affecting indigenous populations in the North and South as well as to discuss the problems and solutions afffecting their respective communities, including:

 

  • Particpation in the political process;
  • Languange and cultural preservation;
  • Human rigths issues, including discrimination;
  • Migration patterns
  • HIV/AIDS;
  • Land tenure

The particpation will consist of seven Canadian women representing a number of different indigenous groups, two Mayan women from Guatemala, and a number of Honduran Garifuna women who will take part in an exchange of these  ideas, activities, and discussions to improve cooperation and knowledge of practices that can be used to increase disaster resilience and further community building. This exchange will also be used as a basis for cooperation and event planning in the upcoming 8th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that will take place from May 18th-29th. These events will help create an indigenous women's caucus within the Huairou members network. We would like to congratulate these women for all of their hard work and wish them the best of luck in the upcoming exchange.

 

 

Contact the Huairou Commission

 

 

Forging strategic partnerships to advance the capacities of grassroots women worldwide to strengthen and create sustainable communities


Huairou Commission

Phone: 718-388-8915

249 Manhattan Avenue                  

Brooklyn, New York 11211                  





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