Project Outcomes
The main outcome of the Sol-UN Project to date is the International Law Bulletin on Indigenous Rights, known as the Indigenous Rights Bulletin. These are published on the Sol-UN website and when on-site, are freely distributed in print during each meeting to all participants in the conference room. The Sol-UN website functions both to keep home offices and indigenous communities informed of international meetings at the grassroots level, and as a permanent archive and database for future work. Special attention is given in reporting to include:
- the full thrust of legal arguments;
- specific references, including to laws, legal texts, case law and jurisprudence;
- details of case studies and field situations presented; and
- concrete proposals made.
The reporting aim is to provide an objective record of what was said, with no censure or interjection of commentary.
The Bulletins constitute a synthesis of each intervention made in the order presented throughout the length of a given meeting. Each Bulletin covers a half-day session, morning and afternoon respectively, as well as evening sessions whenever held. To ensure accuracy, the Bulletin has a mechanism whereby speakers may submit corrections to us if their intervention was not adequately represented. Official UN records are checked, a corrigendum printed when on-site, and corrections are fed into the final website record.
The meetings covered to date are:
- United Nations Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 9th Session (Geneva, 15-26 September 2003), published only in English at present.
- United Nations Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 8th Session (Geneva, 2-13 December 2002), published in Spanish and English.
- United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations, 20th Anniversary (Geneva, 22-26 July 2002), published in Spanish, French and English.
Additional meetings may be
covered upon request. Please see section: “Contact
us.”
