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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
For more information contact: [email protected]