With our #Indigenous Sisters from Bolivia 🇧🇴 and Siberia at the 2024 G20 Interfaith Forum and ⁦Int.Partnership Religion & Sustainable Development⁩ Annual Forum recently held in Brasilia, Brazil 🇧🇷 ⁦G20 Brasil⁩ We are grateful for inclusion of #IndigenousPeaceBuilding & #IndigenousReligion in discussions

With amazing #IndigenousPeoples working to protect the #Amazon Rainforests in Brazil 🇧🇷 at recently concluded ⁦G20 Brasil⁩ Interfaith meeting-Amazon Forests 🌳 “absorbs 25% atmospheric carbon dioxide & produces 6% of total oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.” ⁦UNPFII⁩

The Emerald Rice Fields of Manipur : Rice 🌾 planting season in full swing in different parts of the state. The state home to 3.3 million people is a #biodiversity hotspot.Pray wars stop & peace return to state & spirit of coexistence prevail. Photos courtesy Meena Longjam FB.

#IndigenousWomen of #Manipur living in an internally displaced camp due #ManipurViolence2023 works on making “moras” (stools for sitting) supported by Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network & Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace.The pathway to peace🕊️must include our women🌿🙏🏽

Our condolences🕯️🌿at passing away of New Zealand’s indigenous Māori king,Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII.Māori community accounts for a fifth of New Zealand’s population.Tuheitia final resting place will be sacred burial site of Mount Taupiri. search.app/7gyF9eVfgjvfRe…

Additional Protocol I Geneva Convention prohibits use of weapons which are “of a nature to strike military objectives & civilians or civilian objects without distinction”.This prohibition is in International Criminal Court also #ArmedDroneWarfare #Manipur search.app/pBmqVq3gTiUkgs…

#ArmedDrones used for the first time in attacking villagers in #Manipur claimed two lives including a young #Indigenous mother & injuring her minor daughter & many others ⁦ICRC⁩ ⁦Stop Killer Robots⁩ ⁦UN Human Rights⁩ ⁦NHRC India⁩ newsx.com/national/i-saw…

Humanitarian concerns raised by use of armed drones-a dated file report published 2020 had looked at rising drone warfare in conflicts.Even wars have laws governing them-Geneva Convention 1949 & additional Protocols.Violence must end now in #Manipur #World search.app/BbdfU3PCoqBXsC…

Guns,Drugs & Armed Drones-When will 3.3 million #IndigenousPeoples living in India’s NE #Manipur & other conflict affected areas ever get the peace the people deserve. Indigenous territories are NOT war sites 🛑✋🏽#STOP UNPFII ODA Volker Türk INEW

⁦The Lancet⁩ Commission on Global Gun Violence & Health announced today-So glad to be a part of an excellent Global Team Co-Commissioners working to address how #GunViolence impact our #health & what must be done be done to address it #PeaceHealthPathways ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩🌿🙏🏽

My homestate #Manipur facing violent conflict nonstop since 3 May 2023. Several innocent civilians-mothers,children,elderly shot/bombed in past 4-5 days.We call upon Govt India 🇮🇳 to step in & stop #ManipurGenocide IMMEDIATELY PMO India गृहमंत्री कार्यालय, HMO India NHRC India ⁦Volker Türk⁩

Dialogue not Drones.Reconciliation not Rockets.Mediation & not Mayhem.De-escalation of #ManipurConflict & ensuring peace & justice to ALL aggrieved parties need of hour to stop 🛑 #ManipurGenocide Ensure lives are not lost.Attacks by ALL conflict parties must stop now NHRC India

India United Nations & the world who believe in democracy, rule of law and universal declaration of human rights must now take concrete steps to bring peace to #Manipur as well as other conflict zones. People especially #Indigenous Peoples have suffered immensely & violence must stop 🛑 now

We worked to ensure that issues affecting #IndigenousPeoples globally are reflected in #SummitOfTheFuture All concerned global citizens must ensure we work to bring back the balance that world truly deserves.The #Wars that are happening #Engineered by a few cannot be our future!

Internet shut down & CURFEW clamped down in #Manipur in Northeast #India following thousands of #Indigenous students as well as women groups who took to streets urging an END to 16 month #ManipurViolence following 11 deaths this week in armed attacks ⁦NHRC India⁩ #PEACE 🕊️

Our hearts are broken to see what is happening to #Manipur as well as in conflict zones in world.This cannot be present & future we are leaving for our children & generations to come.Bravest souls are those who touch the world with love & not hate,peace not war #Pray4Manipur 🌿🙏🏽

This is happening in #Manipur #Northeast India 🇮🇳 immediate neighbor #Myanmar Northeast share a 1640 kms border & #geopolitics in region affects us all.Return of genuine #democracy, protection of human rights of all & ensuring rule of law be pathway to #sustainable peace here.

Throughout history of #Manipur & NE India #women been at forefront of strong powerful non-violent movement which kept fabric of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious & multi-cultural state/region alive.Women hold key once again for ensuring pathways for genuine peace/reconciliation🌿🙏🏽

80 Percent World’s Conflicts are currently happening in #biodiversity hotspots where #IndigenousPeoples live.Historic briefing today United Nations Member States #UNGA on importance of #IndigenousPeaceBuilding as a Pathway towards mitigating violent conflicts #OurPeacePrayer ⁦Unofficial Sec-Gen⁩

This is what #IndigenousPeaceBuilding looks like. Working together across countries & cultures to bring the much needed peace 🕊️ that we all deserve. Thankful to everyone who joined us for the #UNGA Briefing on Indigenous Peacebuilding @UNPFII ⁦FIMI-IIWF⁩ ⁦Mariam W.Aboubakrine⁩