HERE’S PART TWO OF FREEHAWAII.INFO’S REPORT –
NATIVE HAWAIIANS GIVE INPUT AT UNITED NATIONS
Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues Brings Recommendations From Hawaiian Organizations
New York, NY – Native Hawaiians continue to make a strong showing at the Third Annual Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations in New York City.
As part of the Pacific Region Caucus, Hawaiians and their supporters from several organizations issued a series of ten recommendations to the world body regarding education.
FreeHawaii.Info presents the final five recommendations along with the signers below –
6. We recommend that the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII) urge the observer member states such as the United States of America and UN support organizations, to provide culturally based education and rehabilitation programs and classes for indigenous inmates and adjudicated minors.
7. We urge the adoption by reference of the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education’s 1999 Coolangatta Statement on Education, which ensures the rights of indigenous peoples for education.
8. We urge the adoption by reference of the Paoakalani Declaration, a unifying statement that collectively shares the responsibility to determine a pono (righteous) future for Hawai’i Nei, her culture, and indigenous peoples.
9. We urge the PFII to adopt the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and
10. Finally, we urge the PFII to declare a second decade on indigenous peoples as there is so much more work to accomplish and in order to continue to give indigenous peoples throughout the world a strong foundation and voice.
Agreeing Organizations –
‘Ilioulaokalani Foundation
Ka Lahui Hawai’i
Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
Koani Foundation
Na Koa Ikaika O Ka Lahui Hawai’i
Price Kuhio Hawaiian Civic Club
Waikiki Hawaiian Civic Club
