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War, climate change and AI: What’s at stake at this year’s UN Indigenous forum
Delegates warn that AI-driven extraction and visa denials are deepening pressures on Indigenous land rights as the forum centers health and conflict.
- Hundreds of Indigenous delegates are arriving at the United Nations in New York City this week for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, convening amid war, artificial intelligence expansion, and environmental threats.
- Trump Administration visa restrictions are preventing many participants from attending, with advocacy assistant Mariana Kiimi Ortiz Flores reporting that representatives from Africa and South America were denied entry this year.
- Advocates are challenging the United Nations' practice of lumping Indigenous peoples with local communities under the acronym IPLCs, arguing this obscures the distinct, legally recognized rights that Indigenous peoples hold under international law.
- Experts warn generative artificial intelligence threatens to scrape Indigenous cultural data while land subdivision for carbon offset projects limits mobility, which Indigenous Maasai representative Samante Anne said is essential for adapting to climate change and ensuring food security.
- The forum's official theme, 'Ensuring Indigenous Peoples' health, including in the context of conflict,' emphasizes how colonialism and climate change compound armed conflict risks, further displacing Indigenous populations from ancestral lands.
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