Docip Foundation

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Docip

Established	1978
Legal status	Global NGO
Purpose	Non-profit organization whose primary objective is to support and defend the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Headquarters	Geneva, Switzerland
Location	Geneva, Switzerland Brussels, Belgium
Official languages	English, French, Spanish, and Russian
President	René Longet
Director	Rémi Orsier
Website	http://www.docip.org, https://www.facebook.com/docip.org/, https://twitter.com/docip_en

The Docip Foundation (Center for Documentation, Research and Information on Indigenous Peoples) is a Swiss non-profit institution, based in Geneva and with a satellite office in Brussels. Its objective is to support indigenous peoples in the defense of their rights, mainly within the United Nations and European institutions.

History

Docip Office in Geneva

Docip was created in 1978 on the initiative of the indigenous delegations participating in the first International Conference on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which took place at the United Nations (Geneva, 1977).

Created as an association, Docip became a foundation in 1998, subject to the cantonal and federal supervisory bodies for foundations. It is registered in the European Union's Transparency Register and accredited with ECOSOC consultative status at the United Nations.

The Docip Foundation aims to support indigenous peoples in defending their rights, and collects the necessary documentation for this purpose. Services offered to indigenous people is nonprofit and does not intend to replace their will.

Docip works in French, English, Spanish and Russian.

In 2017, Docip's collection entitled "Declarations made by indigenous peoples at the United Nations from 1982 to 2015" was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage item and was included in the international Memory of the World register.

Technical Secretariat

The Docip Secretariat provides technical assistance to indigenous representatives at various sessions of ECOSOC subsidiary bodies, Human Rights Council subsidiary bodies, and human rights bodies within the United Nations system that deal with indigenous issues.

EMRIP Plenary Session 2015 in Room XX of the Human Rights Council in Geneva

Since 1978, Docip's technical secretariat has collaborated on: at

• at The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
• at The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)
• at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
• at the World Intellectual Property Organization's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC)
• and at sessions of the Human Rights Council

Docip's technical secretariat provides multilingual translation and interpretation, workspace and discussion for indigenous delegates, and publishes information on the various UN bodies that deal with indigenous issues.

Documentation

Docip's archives are kept by the City of Geneva's archive service

Docip's Documentation Center preserves thousands of documents produced at United Nations conferences in Geneva and New York such as UNPFII and EMRIP

Its archives contain a large number of interventions by indigenous representatives, in order to make these texts accessible to all. An important part of the collections includes documents dating back to the first session of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in August 1982 and many sessions that have taken place up to the present day.

To date, Docip has digitized in text format more than 10,000 documents: histories and major reports, statements by indigenous representatives and other international or governmental actors, various General Assembly resolutions, etc,.

These documents are available on a dedicated website. A large part of the physical archives is kept in the archives of the City of Geneva.

Publications

Each year, Docip publishes the Update, its newsletter on indigenous peoples' rights, which is also distributed to indigenous communities.

In addition, after each session of the UNPFII and the EMPRIP, a "Summary Note" is published. It includes the content of the discussions held during these conferences so that indigenous peoples who do not have representatives at these conferences have up-to-date information on the progress of the proceedings.

Docip publishes a weekly newsletter in its four working languages. This communication includes most of the major ongoing and upcoming international processes, as well as any deadlines for applying for accreditation or financial support.

Social Media

Docip is active on Facebook and Twitter

Human Rights Advocacy Training

Docip organizes trainings on human rights issues, in order to give tools to indigenous delegates from all over the world, so that they can claim their rights, build effective cases on human rights violations, and take part in UN mechanisms for more recognition. These capacity building programs also focus on specific issues related to the challenges faced by the trainees: toxic chemicals management, climate change issues, human rights and business, and migration.

Memory and Oral History

Docip's Memory and Oral History Project aims to improve the capacity of indigenous peoples to have their voices heard by building a record of their international recognition at the United Nations. It also aims to safeguard and promote their oral cultures, traditional knowledge and cultural transmission.

The Memory and Oral History project takes the form of workshops for indigenous youth using different interviewing and archiving techniques to safeguard their community memory and generational transmission. Since the inception of this project, three workshops have been held in various regions of the world: in North America in 2015 (South Dakota), in South America in 2016 (Argentina) and in Africa in 2017 (Kenya). A new workshop is planned in the Asia region in 2020.

Support Before European Institutions

Docip's European office established in 2016 in Brussels facilitates relations between the European Union (EU) and indigenous delegates. The EU protects and promotes human rights, notably through the adoption of numerous reference documents concerning the rights of Indigenous peoples, such as the 2018 European Parliament Resolution on the violation of the rights of Indigenous peoples in the world. The EU's influence is exerted on its member states but also on the whole world through its partnerships (economic, development, etc.). Furthermore, the EU, as a regional organization, implements and promotes the rules developed by the United Nations.

Awards

In 2017, the collection of declarations made by Indigenous Peoples entered the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

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