Human Rights Training for Indigenous Peoples, First Nations and Community Members
“Using the United Nations system to defend Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and hold Countries Accountable”
August 25 – 27, 2008
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Nation, Ontario Canada
KI Community Hall
Presented by the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
Monday, August 25th, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Meet & Greet Reception & Radio Presentation
Tuesday, August 26, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Opening Prayer: Local Elder (TBA)
Opening Address: KI Chief & Council
Introduction to Training Session: Director KI Lands & Environment Unit
Wednesday, August 27, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Lunch will be served both days
TRAINING TOPICS PRESENTERS
• Overview of UN and OAS Human Rights • Ron Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree, Canada),Systems and opportunities for involvement Executive Director, Confederacy of Treaty 6 • Human rights mechanisms including the UN First Nations, IITC Board of Directors Committee on the Elimination of Racial • Francisco Cali (Mayan Nation, Guatemala), Discrimination, Human Rights Council, Member, UN Committee for the Elimination of Special Rapporteurs and Committees Racial Discrimination, IITC Board President • How to do a human rights complaints/urgent • Andrea Carmen (Yaqui Indian Nation, Arizona actions to the UN and OAS USA), IITC Executive Director• Strategies for Implementing the UN • Alberto Saldamando, Human Rights Attorney, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous IITC General Counsel Peoples; Self Determination, Treaties, • Ben Powless (Mohawk Nation, Canada),Environment, Subsistence/Food Sovereignty International Youth Representative and • Free, Prior and Informed Consent Activist Translation: Eno Chapman & Bruce Sakakeep
For more information contact:
Laura Calmwind, (416) 986-9856, laura@coo.org
http://www.kitchenuhmaykoosib.com/
PHOTO: At the Indigenous Environmental Network Conference on Western Shoshone land in July, Sam McKay (seated second from right) was among six Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug chiefs who served time in jail for protecting the land from mining in Ontario, is second from right. KI is an Aboriginal community in the Boreal Forest of Ontario. Six chiefs were jailed for refusing to comply with an October, 2007 court ruling that allows Platinex Inc., a Toronto-based mineral exploration company, to begin drilling on KI traditional lands without protest or obstruction. KI established a peaceful protest camp at the Platinex exploration site.
PHOTO: At the Indigenous Environmental Network Conference on Western Shoshone land in July, Sam McKay (seated second from right) was among six Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug chiefs who served time in jail for protecting the land from mining in Ontario, is second from right. KI is an Aboriginal community in the Boreal Forest of Ontario. Six chiefs were jailed for refusing to comply with an October, 2007 court ruling that allows Platinex Inc., a Toronto-based mineral exploration company, to begin drilling on KI traditional lands without protest or obstruction. KI established a peaceful protest camp at the Platinex exploration site. 
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