UNPFII 2026 | Indigenous Environmental Network

” Ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ Health, Including in the Context of Conflict”

Elevate IEN grassroots positions at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in reference to the main theme and other mandated agenda items.
- Support and uplift the dialogue on health and conflict, make connections to feminisms, environmental and climate justice, Indigenous-just transition, extractive economies with links to violence and assassinations to Mother Earth ddefenders, Murdered Missing Indigenous Women (and children), conflict and warfare, recent trends in colonial nation-state termination
  agendas, and UNDRIP best practices used to fight authoritarian
  patriarchal-colonial power structures that prevent the protection and defense of Mother Earth, Father Sky, Indigenous Peoples and future
  generations.
- Defend the Distinct Inherent Collective Rights, Sovereignty, and Jurisprudence of Indigenous Peoples in operative texts being
  implemented.
- Incorporating the importance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous ethical water policies that embrace Traditional Indigenous Knowledge and best practices.
- Initiate leading dialogues on applying the knowledge of Indigenous
  Feminisms emphasizing holding national and international leaders
  accountable for conflict-related violence and challenging the patriarchal, nation-state-centric, and gendered assumptions that normalize violence and war against Mother Earth, Nature, and the Defenders of Mother Earth.
- The importance of Indigenous Sovereignty, Self-Determination and
  Traditional Knowledge in addressing health and conflict.

Strengthen relationships, solidarity and alignment within our Indigenous Peoples Organizations (North and South), Indigenous women, sister alliances, youth, and elders.
Build movement towards assessing the next steps of the outcome of the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and to assess the need for a more global legally-binding Indigenous Peoples meeting under the protocols of a “Convention”.