fPcN interCultural:

friends of Peoples close to Nature

Dear all supporters and interested people, fPcN Germany (friends of Peoples close to Nature/Freunde der Naturvölker e. V.) will participate at the 22nd session of the "Working Group on Indigenous Populations" at the UN in Geneva, from 19th till 23rd July 2004. The theme will be: "Indigenous Peoples and Conflict Resolution". You can also watch us, live under: http://video.uni-lueneburg.de/stream/un_indigenous, see more, for times... We have already invited and organised a speech, at the UN Working Group for Indigenous Populations 2004, for:

Mr. Benny Wenda (fPcN West Papua), founder of the traditional tribal assembly "DeMMaK" from West Papua will be unable to speak, this years about the human right situation in Indonesia. Because the Swiss authorities would not grant him a visa on his residency permit. At the time of application, a request for special circumstances, but thay failed to trigger any compasssion from the Swiss. An application for a passport for Benny is pending, so that he's freedom to travel to these massively important meetings, can take place. fPcN will continue to support ka ka Benny Wenda in his endevours.

and

Mr. Charles Uwiragiye (fPcN Central Africa), representative of the Batwa pygmies from Rwanda to speak about the pygmy situation 10 years after the massacre among the Hutu and Tutsi.

and

Matthew McDaniel (fPcN Thailand), will speak about the situation in northern Thailand and the hill tribes of the Akha. See - http://www.akha.org/

In addition, our latest film documentary: "Point of Ignition - West Papua" (44min) will also be show in room IX, date: Wednesday 21 July, time: 9:00-10:00

Within the University of Lueneburg, Germany we will broadcast a live stream (using Quicktime) in mixed German and English language from the 22dn session on 21st and 22nd July 2004 at 12 noon middle european time for at least 30 minutes each day at the "Mensa".

You can also watch us, live under:

http://video.uni-lueneburg.de/stream/un_indigenous

!!!Please link it on your homepage!!!

Thanks for your attention!,

Steffen Keulig
Freunde der Naturvölker e.V.
German Branch of fPcN
Chairman
Salzstraße 6
D-21335 Lüneburg
Germany
Email: FdN@fPcN-global.org
Tel: +49 (0) 4131 68 22 32
Mobil: +49 (0)17624022969
http://www.naturvoelker.org/
http://www.fPcN-global.org/

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