Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples Network Reference Group meeting - Seminar on Indigenous spirituality, land rights, and climate justice
A part of the reference group will also participate, from 13-15 October, in a seminar on Indigenous spirituality, land rights, and climate justice. Seminar participants will share papers, poetry readings and storytelling, and enter into dialogue with WCC staff from the Commission on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development. They will also hear an overview on climate-responsible banking and how it relates to child rights.
The seminar, entitled “The Intersection of Indigenous Spiritualities, Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice – Meeting of Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples Network,” is supported by a grant from the German Foreign Ministry.
Climate justice is inextricably linked to the human rights of Indigenous peoples, particularly as Indigenous communities occupy 20-25% of the Earth’s land surface. Eighty percent of that land mass holds the world’s remaining biodiversity.
The meeting and seminar will explore the interrelated threads of Indigenous people’s spiritualities, Indigenous rights, and climate justice.
Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples Network
Commission on World Mission and Evangelism
