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Moderator Claire Charters, Professor of Law at the University of Auckland and former advisor to the President of the General Assembly on Indigenous peoples’ participation, speaks at a panel discussion on selection criteria and key issues of the right to self-determination and self-identification, during the Informal Interactive Hearing with Indigenous Peoples.

From left to right are: Hereditary Chief Akile Ch’oh Grand Chief Edward John, Tl’azt’en Nation/First Nations Summit; Adelfo Regino Montes, Director-General of the National Institute for Indigenous Peoples in Mexico; the moderator; the secretary of the meeting; Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, Expert Member of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in the Africa Region, and Vicky Tauli Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.