The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN, Centro de Esudio e Investigacion, Communidad de Historia Mapuche (CEIM-CHM), Laguna Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment (LACSE), and Jittoa Bat Natika Weria invite you to a participatory side event during the 25th session of the UNPFII:
“Transition Minerals” Mining: Violations of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the name of “Climate Change Mitigation” and the “Green Economy”
Conference Room 9, UN Headquarters, New York
THURSDAY APRIL 23, 2026
4:30 – 6:00 PM EST during the UNPFII closed session
Presenters include:
• Rochelle Diver, IITC UN Environmental Treaties Coordinator, moderator and opening statement: what is a “climate friendly” Nickel mine? What will its real impacts be?
• Andrea Carmen, IITC Executive Director: International progress recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ right to Free Prior and Informed Consent as essential for “Just Transition”
• Angel Valencia, Jittoa Bat Natika Weria: Plan Sonora proposed lithium mining in Mexico
• Summer Blaze Aubrey, IITC Indigenous Rights Attorney and consulting attorney for the Water Protectors Legal Collective: Lithium mining and protecting our Sacred Waters
• Jakelin Curaqueo, Chile, impacts in South America’s “Lithium Triangle” (video)
• Petuuche Gilbert, Acoma Pueblo Elder, New Mexico, Laguna Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment: Uranium Mining, Indigenous Peoples and the “Green Economy”
• Talia Boyd, IEN Keep it in the Ground Mining Organizer: Voices from the Front Lines
• Ambassador Francsico Cali Tzay, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Recommendations from his 2023 Study on the “Green Economy”
For more information: [email protected] or [email protected], Interpretation will be provided in Spanish and English by DOCIP.