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Universal Periodic Review and What We Can Do

Earth Rights Day features films and forums covering rights & resilience in the Pacific and around our planet

POC:  Joshua Cooper 808 542 7204 joshuacooperhawaii@gmail.com

A coalition of civil society associations across Hawai’i offer a program of films and forums, on April 16,  to commemorate the 9th Annual Earth Rights Day at the State of Hawai’i Capitol Auditorium from 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The event will feature guest speakers on Earth / Human Rights in Hawai’i for the Universal Periodic Review scheduled at the UN later in November. There will also be discussion on the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties COP 31 Town Hall around Fiji in October and Climate Reality Project Climate Changemakers initiatives in our islands of Hawai’i. The upcoming UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will also be discussed with participants from Hawai’i.  There will also be film screening of nature films in the Pacific featuring Australia’s Kangaroo Island.  Wisdom Circles Oceania will be space for creativity and imagination in our islands to dream an abundant future through art.

After the welcome, at 12:30 p.m,  the Universal Periodic Review will be at the core of the conversation centering around the state of human rights in Hawai’i and the United States of America.  Youth and NGOs will share the priorities to promote and protect rights providing testimonies and sharing stories. It is first chance for consultation at subnational level since the UPR stakeholder submissions last week to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

At 1:00 p.m., there will be discussion on the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties COP 31 Town Hall covering the recent COP 30 in Belem, Brazil featuring youth that attended the global summit dubbed the Indigenous COP. There will also be updates for the UNFCCC PreCOP 31 known as the Pacific COP in Tuvalu and Fiji in October.

At 1:30 p.m., the core conversation will be on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues with the 25th session to be held next week at UN HQ in New York City with students and participants sharing their priorities in attending the UN PFII.

At 2:00 p.m, there will be Climate Reality Project Climate Changemakers conversation and an overview by State of House Staff on State of Climate Justice Legislation sharing bills and resolutions still alive and what we can do.

At 2:15 p.m, Wisdom Circles Oceania will provide space for community to creatively express in response to the many pressing issues facing the planet and our collective communities ability to use our imagination in our islands to dream an abundant future. Bring Your Own Clothes (BYOC) to print on with the many sustainability stencils created by youth and artist mentors.

At 2:30 p.m, the film screening covering environmental and social justice in our islands will begin with Australia film, Kangaroo Island, exploring themes of life and death — the big questions of existence and meaning. Kangaroo Island, known in the Kaurna language as Karta Pintingga (meaning “Island of the Dead”), has a deep spiritual and historical connection to mainland Aboriginal nations, particularly the Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna, and Narungga. Mainland Aboriginal oral histories and Dreaming stories describe the island as a sacred place where the spirits of the deceased travel after death, a belief reinforced by the difficult and dangerous currents of the Backstairs Passage that separate the island from the coast. Kangaroo Island also covers island devastation and healing. Kangaroo Island was filmed only three years since fires devastated 70% of the entire islands (Australia’s third biggest island). One theme is unity after destruction. Like all island communities, when disaster hits it is felt by everyone on the land. It builds a tight community.

The event will conclude with discussion of Green Futures Just Transformative Transitions with Innovation for Equality, Ecology, Economy & Equity in our Islands and Island Earth: Well-Being and Rights in Our World as the final event of the Climate Futures Forum series in May. All are welcome to come and participate in positive conversations for the future of Hawai’i.

The 9th Annual Earth Rights Day will take place at the Hawai’i Capitol Audtorium. Earth Rights Day is sponsored by South Maui State Representative Terez Amato, Climate Futures Forum, Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights, United Nations University – Regional Centers of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development Hawai’i Moananuiakea, Climate Reality Project — Hawai’i, Wisdom Circles Oceania, UNA-USA Honolulu, O’ahu, Amnesty International USA Hawai’i   For more information please email joshuacooperhawaii@gmail.com or contact 808 542 7204

12:30 p.m. Human & Earth Rights in Hawaii: UPR in Subnational Local State Affairs

1:00 p.m. Indigenous COP Belem to Pacific PreCOP Fiji: Voices from the Amazon to Oceania

1:30 p.m. UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Health

2:00 p.m. Climate Reality Project Climate Changemakers & State of Climate Justice Legislation Summary of Sustainability

2:15 p.m. Wisdom Circles Oceania – BYOClothes to print sustainability aloha aina messages

2:30 p.m. Kangaroo Island Film Screening, feature film centered around existence, meaning and resilience filmed on third largest island in Australia covering devastation and healing.

Sunday Morning will begin with Poetic Yoga from 8 to 10.

Poet’s Brunch from 10:30 to 12:30 pm