Event Body Meeting
17th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The 17th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) takes place from 8 to 12 July 2024. EMRIP is a subsidiary body of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC), created through HRC resolution 6/36 adopted in 2007, meeting once a year to provide indigenous-based expertise to the Council.
About the Session
The 17th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) takes place from 8 to 12 July 2024. EMRIP is a subsidiary body of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC), created through HRC resolution 6/36 adopted in 2007, meeting once a year to provide indigenous-based expertise to the Council.
At this session, the Expert Mechanism will present the draft study on “Constitutions, laws, legislation, policies, judicial decisions and other mechanisms through which States have taken measures to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in accordance with article 38 of the Declaration” (A/HRC/EMRIP/2024/2). The study concludes with Expert Mechanism Advice No. 17 (2024) on how States should take such measures to achieve the ends of the Declaration within the context of their human rights obligations and responsibilities.
The Expert Mechanism will also tackle the agenda of enhancing the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them. This takes place ahead of the First intersessional meeting of the Human Rights Council on concrete ways to enhance the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the work of the Council on 18-19 July 2024 at Palais des Nations.
→ Follow the EMRIP meeting and its side events, and find more information on the Docip resource page.
As the environment is tackled in this session, consult here a list of environment-related side events and activities taking place on the sidelines of EMRIP17.
- UNVF and Indigenous Peoples participation in UN Meetings | 8 July 2024 | 16:00-17:00 CEST | Room XXVI | OHCHR/UNVFIP | Interpretation E, F, S, P, R
- Bridging Generation: Social-transformation, Climate-justice | 9 July 2024 | 10:00-11:00 CEST | Room XXVI | INCOMINDIOS | Interpretation E, S
- Acuerdo Agrario de Paz Guatemala | 9 July 2024 | 14:00-15:00 CEST | Room VIII | Peace Brigades International | No interpretation
- Aty Seikuinduwa: Judge Between Worlds | 9 July 2024 | 19:00-21:00 CEST | Route de Ferney 106 | Docip | Interpretation E, S
- Medicamentos indígenas y propiedad intelectual | 10 July 2024 | 9:00-10:00 CEST | Room VIII | Maloca Internationale | No interpretation
- Recognition of Existence of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation | 10 July 2024 | 10:00-11:00 CEST | Room VIII | Amazon Conservation Team | Interpretation E, S
- Indigenous Peoples against gold-mining in Brazilian Amazon | 10 July 2024 | 15:00-16:00 CEST | Room VIII | Aliança em Defesa dos Territórios | Interpretation E, P, S
- Enhanced Participation of Indigenous Peoples at the HRC | 11 July 2024 | 11:00-12:00 CEST | Room XXVI | Indigenous Coordinating Body (ICB) | Interpretation E, S, F
- Regional perspectives: Participation and Representation | 11 July 2024 | 16:30-18:00 CEST | Room XXVI | Genève pour les droits de l’homme formation internationale | Interpretation E, F, S, R, A, P, Sami
- Indigenous Peoples, Culture, Environment and Mining Rights | 12 July 2024 | 12:00-13:00 CEST | Room XXVI | Across Atlantic development LTD | Interpretation E, F
- One Health approach to resilience and advance UNDRIP | 12 July 2024 | 13:00-14:30 CEST | Room XXVI | FAO | Interpretation E, F
Indigenous Peoples and the Role of Geneva
As defined by the United Nations, Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment. They have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which they live. Despite their cultural differences, indigenous peoples from around the world share common problems related to the protection of their rights as distinct peoples.
Over the past years, environmental negotiations in Geneva and beyond have been referring more and more to Indigenous People and their knowledge, which are at the frontline of the protection of our planet. Learn more about the role of Geneva in the promotion and protection and the rights of Indigenous Peoples in our dedicated update.