Indigenous Delegates on the plan

Indigenous delegates on the plane after an exciting, hard working week, all looking a bit tired. But all in good spirits after a very productive week. Most delegates are now on way home, a long haul. We are lucky enough to be only going to Oslo today for 5 days of relaxing and sightseeing.

Australian Delegates lead the way at Conference on Indigenous Peoples Global Preparatory Meeting

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples Co-Chair Les Malezer has been appointed as Pacific Bureau Member, and has been elected as Co-Chair of the Conference along with Asia Region Delegate Vicki Tauli-Corpus. Mr Malezer's years of experience in international advocacy for Indigenous Peoples is well regarded amongst the international Indigenous Peoples movement.

There are twelve Delegates from Australia at the meeting, and a number of them hold leadership positions.

Professor Mick Dodson, another experienced and respected Aboriginal leader has been appointed as rapporteur for the Pacific along with Mililani Trask of Hawaii. They form part of the Drafting Team.

Brian Wyatt, the CEO of the National Native Title Council and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Organisation (IPO) Network was elected Co-Chair of the Pacific Caucus, along with Catherine Davis from Aotearoa (New Zealand).

IPO Co-Chair Dea Delaney was appointed as Bureau Member for the Global Women's Caucus and emerging leader Peter Dawson was elected as Co-Chair of the Youth Caucus.

Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights

Got a chance to have a quick yarn and style up for a photo with Prof. James Anaya who is currently the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This trip has certainly had quite a few first for
me.

Indigenous Observer new learnings

Steep learning curve as a first time observer to the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference. A day of new learnings, Pacific Region Caucus meetings and the processes of reporting and drafting. An exciting opportunity.

A view from the floor

The Sami Parliament of Norway is hosting 800 Indigenous Delegates from all over the world for the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference for the UN high level plenary meeting known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. The Alta Conference is organized in cooperation with the Global Indigenous Coordination Group (GCG) for the World Conference.

Children from all over the world be creative

Children and young people from 7 Indigenous regions were invited to submit a picture of their dream lodge.

See my detailed post about this at The Critical Classroom in the morning.

Eager to start

An Aunty on each side keen for the United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples to start. The conference will be streamed on: http://tv.alta2013.org

Pacific Regional Meeting

A quick pic of the Australian delegation hard at work under the watchful eye of observers sitting up the back. Lots of interesting new learnings.

We are here for the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference for World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014. You can follow their Facebook page, they're updating it a few times each day.

Am hoping to write a few posts for The Critical Classroom. Stay tuned.