Delegates lack skills to defend rights of indigenous peoples
Indonesian delegates to international conferences lack the skills to defend indigenous people’s rights and promote their role in climate change mitigation, say advocates.
“We frequently get asked why indigenous rights issues are not raised in international forums,” Mina Susana Setra, an activist from the Alliance of Archipelagic Indigenous People, said at a seminar Thursday.
“The fact is only a few of our negotiators understand the real problems faced by indigenous people.”
The two-day seminar titled “After the Copenhagen Conference” was organized by the Ford Foundation and the Samdhana Institute. Read the story.
