{"id":197598,"date":"2022-08-09T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=197598"},"modified":"2022-08-09T02:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:35:27","slug":"unpfii-delegation-on-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/unpfii-delegation-on-state-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"UNPFII delegation on state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 8 Aug:<\/strong> A two-member delegation of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is on a three-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh to celebrate the International Day of World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing reporters at the Arunachal Press Club here on Monday, UNPFII Vice Chairperson Phoolman Choudhary, a native of Nepal, informed that the forum was formed in July 2000 &#8220;with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education and health sectors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Choudhary said that the forum provides &#8220;expert advice and recommendations on indigenous issues to the council and agencies of the United Nations through the ECOSOC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran-based Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment Director Dr Hanieh Moghani and Arunachal Citizens Right director Bamang Tago were also present at the press conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tago informed that &#8220;the celebration will take place at Don Bosco College in Jollang.&#8221; During the event, former chief information commissioner Dr Joram Begi will speak on &#8216;Identity issues and the indigenous Northeast India&#8217;, with special reference to Arunachal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Moghani will deliver a lecture on &#8216;The role of indigenous women in the preservation and transmission of traditional knowledge&#8217;, while Choudhary will speak on the &#8216;UN concept of indigenous people and their rights&#8217;, Tago informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 8 Aug: A two-member delegation of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is on a three-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh to celebrate the International Day of World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples. Addressing reporters at the Arunachal Press Club here on Monday, UNPFII Vice Chairperson Phoolman Choudhary, a native of Nepal, informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}