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