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Join us for a public lecture from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - the Nin Tomas Memorial Lecture for 2024. The Special Rapporteur, Francisco Calí Tzay, will speak about lessons learned from constitutional reform movements and about the implementation of UNDRIP.

Time: 5pm - 7pm: drinks and nibbles from 5 - 6pm; lecture begins 6pm.

Date: Thursday 4 April, 2024

Venue: Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland

About the speaker - taken from https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-indigenous-peoples/francisco-cali-tzay

Mr. Calí Tzay is Maya Kaqchikel from Guatemala, with experience in defending the rights of Indigenous Peoples, both in Guatemala and at the level of the United Nations and the OAS.

He was founder and member of a different indigenous organizations in Guatemala and as well Ambassador of Guatemala to the Federal Republic of Germany and was President of the Committee for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, a treaty body from which he was elected for four consecutive periods of 4 years each.

He was Director of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala; he was member of the Presidential Commission against Discrimination and Racism against Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala (CODISRA) and President of the National Reparation Program for Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict.

See here for more info on the Special Rapporteur: https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-indigenous-peoples/francisco-cali-tzay

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People