North Rupununi Toshao to serve on UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Toshao Bertie Xavier of Wowetta Community in   North Rupununi,  Region Nine, was on Wednesday elected to serve on the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a release yesterday.

The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was established in 2000 by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) through Resolution 2000/22 of July 28, 2000, and it is  one of three UN mechanisms mandated to deal specifically with indigenous peoples’ issues.

The  others are the Expert Mechanism on the