Background

Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/25, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples decided, at its fifteen session, held in July 2022, to prepare a study on the impact of militarisation on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Expert seminar

The Expert Mechanism held a closed expert seminar on this theme which took place in Geneva from 5-6 December 2022.

Concept note: English

Agenda: English

Seminar statements

• Aboi Paul Ngole
• Ai Abe
• Alexey Tsykarev
• Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
• Jill Carino
• Kerry R. Wendanak
• Maria Luisa Acosta
• Rune Fjellheim

Inputs received

States

• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Mexico
• Norway
• Russian Federation

NHRIs

• The Federal Public Defenders' Office of Brazil

UN entities

• Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples to the Expert Mechanism on the rights of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Peoples and NGOs

• ABIPA
• ACSILs
• Addameer AlHaq AlMezan 1-2
• Adivasi Koordination in Deutschland (Germany)
• AIDESEP and NIA TERO and OPIAC
• AKD
• Al Mezan
• All Okinawa Council for Human Rights
• Apoinme
• Asia Justice And Rights
• Association for the Ishigaki City Referendum
• Association of Reintegration of Crimea
• Association Walde Fulbe
• Assyrians IPs Nahla Valley
• CELS and ADDI and AMAI
• Centre for Research and Advocacy Manipur
• Centro de Documentacion Mapuche Chile
• Centro de Reflexiones Nim Poqom
• Centro Prodh
• CITI
• CMDPDH
• Conscience and Peace Tax International
• Conselho Indigenista Mission┬ário
• Crimean Tatar Resource Center
• Defend Panay Network (Philippines)
• Elizka Relief Foundation
• Franciscans International (PDF) (Word)
• FundaRedes
• Gidimt`en Land Defenders
• Gidimten Land Defenders WetSuweten Nation
• Ginowan Churamizu Kai
• Global Naga Forum
• Housing and Land Rights Network-Habitat International Coalition
• HRM KontraS WCC
• ILSA Y CEPAM
• International Communities Organisation (ICO)
• International Indian Treaty Council
• IPACC
• IPRI Ecuador
• IPRI Mexico
• IRAC and IPRI
• IWGIA 1-2
• JFG FAFIA JP
• Joint Submissions by CHTC and others
• Justice House
• Justicia Transicional en México
• KICES
• La Federación Indígena Empresarial y Comunidades Locales de México
• LRC
• Maat for Peace
• Masayuki Sokei
• Medical Association for Prevention of War Australia
• Minority Rights Group International
• México Unido Contra la Delincuencia AC
• Nansei Islands Peace Project
• Panaghiusa Philippine Network
• Papuan Peoples Petition
• PCJSS
• Peace Brigades International (PBI) - (PDF) (Word)
• Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples Rights
• Programa Venezolano de Educación Acción en Derechos Humanos
• Prutehi Litekyan Save Ritidian
• RENADDHH and NGChile
• Ridvan Bari Urcosta
• Société SOMMAC
• Solidarity for Indigenous Papuans
• Structural Analysis of Cultural Systems
• Tabital Pulaaku International
• The Crimean Tatar Resource Center
• The Merdeka Secretariat
• The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs
• Vanuatu Free West Papua Association
• Voices of Indigenous Peoples of Russia
• West Papua Action Aotearoa
• WILPF Canada

Academic and others

• Facts and Norms Institute
• Hassimi Diallo
• Regina Gregory
• Tiara Na'puti
• University of Copenhagen and IWGIA