From: First Peoples Human Rights Coalition [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: October-08-13 7:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Special Rapporteur meets with Haudenosaunee
>From the announcement below: "Among the list of concerns that the >Haudenosaunee discussed were border crossing, identity, missing and murdered >Indigenous women, the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of >Indigenous Peoples, and related issues." [Forwarded by Kenneth Deer - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Special Rapporteur meets with Haudenosaunee In the evening before James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, starts his mission to Canada, he met with a delegation from the Haudenosaunee in Ottawa to discuss their particular issues and to prepare Anaya for the nine days of his visit to Canada. He was first greeted in the protocol of the Haudenosaunee with the symbolic cleaning of his eyes, ears and throat after his long journey to Canada. Among the list of concerns that the Haudenosaunee discussed were border crossing, identity, missing and murdered Indigenous women, the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and related issues. The delegation also briefly listed numerous other issues that the Special Rapporteur will face while he travels across Canada such as environment, tarsands, fracking, new legislation from Canada, land claim policies and other topics. Mr. Anaya was very receptive to the issues presented to him and was grateful for the opportunity to receive the protocol. In the photo from left to right [FPHRC NOTE: Photo was not included in this mailing.] Kenneth Deer, Mohawk, Chief Roger Hill, Seneca, Chief Stuart Jamieson, Seneca, Karl Hill, Cayuga, Chief Howard Thompson, Mohawk, Maia, Campbell, assistant to the Special Rapporteur, James Anaya, Special Rapporteur, Chief Sid Hill, Tadodaheh, Onondaga, Kanentokon Hemlock, Mohawk, Glenda Deer, Mohawk, Aronhiaies Herne, Mohawk. ###
