Local to Global-Global to Local Leaders Dialogue

The Local-Global Leaders Dialogue will bring indigenous peoples’ representatives and local civil society leaders together with national policymakers and global thought leaders, on priority issues in the areas of... [ view full abstract ]

The Local-Global Leaders Dialogue will bring indigenous peoples’ representatives and local civil society leaders together with national policymakers and global thought leaders, on priority issues in the areas of communities, conservation and livelihoods. The dialogue will be oriented around  priority themes: (i) securing and expanding rights to communal lands, territories and natural resources; ii) how indigenous peoples and local communities are  engaging in environmental conservation supporting sustainable livelihoods; and (iii) creating political, legal and institutional space for indigenous peoples and local communities to contribute to policymaking and planning  and how they can best be supported in policy.

Moderator: Kristen Walker Painemilla

Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environment, Economics and Social Policy

SVP, Policy Center for Environment and Peace at Conservation International

Panelists

 Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin, National High Court of Brazil

Appointed Justice of the National High Court of Brazil (STJ) in 2006 by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Professor Antonio Herman Benjamin was a career Assistant Attorney General of the State of São Paulo for over twenty years, where he headed the Environmental Protection Division for several years. 

Pasang Dolma Sherpa serves the Center for Indigenous Peoples' Research and Development (CIPRED) as Executive Director and has been working with indigenous peoples of Nepal in relation to climate change education, particularly in the area of indigenous peoples' customary practices and traditional knowledge in conservation and sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity since 2009. 

Stewart Maginnis is the Global Director of the Nature-based Solutions Group, with overall responsibility for IUCN’s work on Ecosystem Management, Forests, Water, Gender, Social Policy, Economics and Business & Biodiversity. 

Yeshing Juliana Upún Yos is a Mayan Kaqchikel woman from Guatemala. She is beginning her career in law and is an advocate of Indigenous Peoples and women rights. 

Kanyinke Sena is Ogiek from Kenya. He is an expert on Indigenous Peoples rights and served as chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and currently serving as member of the African Commission Working Group on Indigenous Populations and as Kenya Advocacy Officer, Minority Rights Group, International.