5-14 October, Barcelona, Spain

IUCN World Conservation Congress

The Standing Committee of the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation (www.danadeclaration.org), based at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development is are pleased to announce that the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples was endorsed by the 5th World Conservation Congress (IUCN) in Barcelona, Spain in Resolution CGR4.MOT126 on Monday October 13th, 2008. This endorsement a significant step in furthering the profile of the Dana Declaration internationally and regionally in supporting the special vulnerabilities and needs of mobile peoples both in the context of the international indigenous peoples movement as well as in national and regional assemblies.