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This webinar will feature Indigenous expert presenters from the United Nations and Indigenous Nations addressing human rights violations that are contributing to COVID-19’s impacts and how some governments are using this pandemic to carry out additional violations which further threaten our physical, spiritual and environmental health.

PANELISTS:

• Opening remarks: Francisco Cali Tzay, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Mayan Cakchiquel, Guatemala: Urgent call for information from Indigenous Peoples on the impacts of COVID-19
• Updates on the COVID-19 crisis:  Janene Yazzie, New Mexico Navajo-Hopi COVID Relief Effort; Taira Stanley, Kuna Youth Movement Emergency Relief project, Kuna Yala, Panama
• Saúl Vicente Vásquez, Zapoteca, IITC Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, member, UN Committee on Food Security, Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism, Mexico
• Nicole Yanes, Opata, IITC Food Sovereignty Consultant and Board member, APISA (Asamblea de los Pueblos Indígenas por la Soberanía Alimentaria en México)
• Pu’uhonua “Bumpy” Kanahele, Head of State, Nation of Hawai’i
• Chris Honahnie, Hopi youth farmer, IITC Administrative and Programs Assistant
• Questions from participants

Moderator, Roberto Borrero, United Confederation of Taino People

Please click on https://www.iitc.org/online-trainings-webinars/ to download the Food Sovereignty handouts for this webinar

To pre-register for the webinar via zoom, click on:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kZ3odrK9QRymROaG8_LiMw

English/Spanish interpretation will be provided. Click here for information about how to use zoom’s webinar interpretation feature for those joining online   

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