Stan Stevens spoke at the United Nations on May 26, 2009 in an event organized as part of the VII Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The theme of this year’s UNPFII was implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007). A group of Indigenous peoples’ representatives and members of IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) gave a presentation on Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs) as means of implementing the UNDRIP. Stevens spoke about Sherpa efforts to gain recognition and respect for their ICCAs in their customary territory in the Mt. Everest region and the challenges presented to this by the governance of the region as a national park. The previous day Stevens and Geography MS student Mingma Norbu Sherpa spoke on this topic at a day-long workshop on ICCAs for UNPFII attendees in the offices of the UN Development Programme’s Small Grants Programme in New York.
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