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JUSTIN TRUDEAU, Prime Minister of Canada, recalled that, throughout his country’s history, it had worked hard to achieve its ambitions at home and elsewhere in the world. Canada was built on the ancestral land of indigenous peoples, he recalled, and was regrettably a country that came into being without the meaningful participation of those who were first there. The indigenous peoples were the victims of a Government that did not respect them, their traditions, their attributes, their way of governance, or their laws. They were victims of a Government that sought to rewrite their unique history and refused to protect the lands and water. It was a great shame that that lack of respect persisted today.

Columbia Law School Indigenous Peoples Working Conference

September 12, 2017September 12, 2017Matthew L.M. Fletcher

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL PRESENTS A WORKING CONFERENCE
Identity and Implementation: The Next Ten Years of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

Walter Echohawk, lunchtime keynote speaker

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th Street, New York City

Webcast: The Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Sept. 13-14, 2017)

September 7, 2017Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

13–14 September 2017 ● Boulder, Colorado

Webcast will be live from 9 am to 4pm on 13 September

Mountain Daylight Time (UTC -6)

http://www.colorado.edu/law/live

Other event information here, including registration for the in-person event https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/uncategorized/2017/08/10th-anniversary-of-the-undrip-at-u-colorado-law-school/

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Webcast UN

Protection of Traditional Cultural Resources – Working Draft of NARF

May 18, 2017Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Protection of Traditional Cultural Resources – Working Draft of NARF

From NCAI:

Dear Leaders:

This is an important time for protection of tribal cultural resources. The World Intellectual Property Organization, an agency of the United Nations, is considering the adoption of an agreement among countries to protect the traditional cultural expressions of indigenous peoples. The WIPO Committee charged with this task will hold an important session in Geneva, Switzerland on June 12-16, 2017.

On May 4-5, 2017, the Native American Rights Fund and the University of Colorado Law School hosted a drafting session to propose text for the upcoming negotiations. The attached draft focuses on the problem of theft and illegal possession of tribal cultural expressions. It also addresses false marketing suggesting affiliation, approval or endorsement by indigenous peoples.

At the NCAI Midyear at Mohegan, Connecticut, NCAI will host a consultation session with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the federal agency that engages with WIPO, on June 12, 2017. This coincides with the first day of the negotiation in Geneva, and so the federal officials leading negotiations for the U.S. government will join by conference call.

We encourage you to review the draft, and please join us at the June 12, 2017 consultation with the Patent & Trademark Office at the NCAI Midyear. (Even better, please contact us if you have questions on how to attend the negotiation in Geneva.) You can view the most recent draft document under discussion at WIPO here. <http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=368102>

Thank you very much for your attention to this keenly important issue.

Jacqueline Pata