Call for participants: Land and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Workshop,
5 – 8 December 2008, Nairobi

Do you work with indigenous peoples? Are you concerned about their land rights? Would you like to learn new HRBD strategies and tools to enrich your work? Then this workshop is for you! As a side-event to the ESCR-Net General Assembly, Equalinrights will be organizing a workshop on Land and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. This workshop aims to:
· Create space for practitioners from different cultural, political and social contexts to meet and interact with each other in order to learn from each other
· Encourage practitioners to reflect on their current practices, compare and consider different methodologies and strategies to learn new tools that would enable them to better support the realization of land rights by indigenous peoples from the bottom-up
· Provide opportunity for establishing new partnerships between practitioners that may lead to further processes of interaction, support and learning beyond the workshop
· Serve as a starting point for a collaborative project on land and indigenous peoples’ rights; and
· Introduce a shared online platform for future collaboration

Hopefully at this workshop we can explore possibilities of collaborating and perhaps pursuing a joint project together! If you are interested, please send an email to Mariam Munang as soon as possible because spaces are limited!