The Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network, IBON International, Land is Life and People’s Movement on Climate Change will organize and  host the International Conference on Indigenous Peoples Rights, Alternatives and Solutions to the Climate Crisis from November 6-9, 2010 in Baguio City, Philippines. 

The conference will gather representatives of indigenous peoples organizations, NGOs and advocates worldwide to discuss experiences, alternatives and solutions to the climate crisis; agree on a common framework and basis of unity, and plan strategies for effective policy advocacy and participation in official processes and parallel activities of civil society and social movements  on the conference theme. The conference aims to strengthen solidarity and advocacy among indigenous peoples for self-determination and liberation in keeping with the 1976 Algiers Universal Declaration on the Rights of Peoples, the UNDRIP and other international instruments.  The programme consists of community visits and solidarity events, presentations, workshop-discussions on Indigenous Peoples Rights, Alternatives and Solutions to the Climate Crisis; Imperialism and the Climate Crisis; Critique on UNFCCC negotiations, REDD+, CDM; Repression and War on Terror; and Self-determination and Liberation. The conference shall also serve for the launching of the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement for Self-determination and Liberation. #