Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 23, 2011

Flagstaff Public Hearing San Francisco Peaks Sept. 23, 2011

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE USE AND PRESERVATION OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO PEAKS
ST. MICHAELS, Ariz.—The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission will hold a public hearing to give Navajo, non-Navajo and other indigenous peoples’ an opportunity to give oral testimony or written testimony to NNHRC about San Francisco Peaks as they relate to use, preservation and protection on Friday, September 23, 2011, at 5 p.m. at City Hall in Flagstaff, Ariz. It is open to the public.
WHO: General Public
WHAT:The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission will hold a public hearing
to give Navajos and non-Navajos and other indigenous peoples’ an opportunity to give oral testimony, or written testimony to NNHRC about San Francisco Peaks as they relate to use, preservation and protection.
WHEN: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
5 P.M. – 10 P.M.
WHERE: Flagstaff City Hall - Council Chambers
211 West Aspen Ave.
Flagstaff, AZ
OPEN PRESS
Rachelle Todea,Public Information Officer
Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission
P.O. Box 1689
Window Rock, Navajo Nation (AZ)  86515
Phone: (928) 871-7436
Fax: (928) 871-7437
rtodea@navajo-nsn.gov
www.nnhrc.navajo-nsn.gov
"Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development," according to the Article 3 of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, G.A. Res. 61/295, U.N. Doc A/RES/295 (Sept. 13, 2007), 46 I.L.M 1013 (2007).

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