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Asociacion Civil Wounmain Waneesia

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Sustainable Development

Major group affiliation:
  • Indigenous people
  • Workers and trade unions
  • Scientific and technological communities
  • Children and youth
  • Local authorities
  • Women
  • Non-governmental organization
  • Farmers
Involvement in UN Partnerships: Yes
If yes, explain in detail: Our members have had the chance to be scholars for the Indigenous Fellowship Programme (IFP), The Greenland-based International Center of Indigenous Peoples (ITCIP), An exhibition entitled “The Right to Water and Indigenous Peoples” in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby, at United Nations Headquarters, marking the tenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. V Taller V sub-regional para América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CBD), incluyendo cuestiones pertinentes al Artículo 8(j), Conocimiento Tradicional y Acceso y participación en los beneficios, Brasilia, Brasil, del 02 al 04 de Junio de 2010. ( V sub-regional workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), including issues relevant to Article 8 (j), traditional knowledge and access and benefit sharing, Brasilia, Brazil, from 02 to June 4, 2010)
Affiliation with other organizations: The advisory boards of PeruVine/PeruDigital, the Ethnographic Digital Laboratory of the University of Central Florida and the International Ethnobotanical Association, CLACPI, Fundacion Wayuunaiki, Red de Comunicación del Pueblo Wayuu, Muestra de Cine Indigena de Venezuela, Cineminga, Daupara Muestra de Cine Indígena de Colombia, Revista Yepan, Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu.
Statements or documents submitted
Commission on Sustainable Development: 		RIGHT TO WATER AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ EXHIBITION AT UNITED NATIONS http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/note6308.doc.htm A dynamic year of indigenous communication http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/201210101017176645.html Wayuu Filmmaker Speaks About Indigenous Media in Venezuela http://venezuela-us.org/2012/05/11/wayuu-filmmaker-speaks-about-indigenous-media-in-venezuela/ Indigenous media, participatory democracy and language revitalisation in Abya Yala and Aotearoa: The centrality of language in indigenous transformation http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/events/template/event_item.jsp?cid=444936 2011 Expanding Documentary Conference - Guest Presenters http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/communications/profile/research/expanding-documentary/keynote-speakers New Zealand: In Aotearoa - New Zealand The Communication And Documentary Experience Of Indigenous Wayuu Shared http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13444:new-zealand-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-the-communication-and-documentary-experience-of-indigenous-wayuu-shared&catid=28&Itemid=61 Weaving Networks for the International Year of Indigenous communication http://www.commarts.uws.edu.au/gmjau/v5_2011_2/tokita_starrett_Essay.html

Social Development

Accreditation to: Indigenous Forum
Affiliation with other organizations: The advisory boards of PeruVine/PeruDigital, the Ethnographic Digital Laboratory of the University of Central Florida and the International Ethnobotanical Association, CLACPI, Fundacion Wayuunaiki, Red de Comunicación del Pueblo Wayuu, Muestra de Cine Indigena de Venezuela, Cineminga, Daupara Muestra de Cine Indígena de Colombia, Revista Yepan, Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu.
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