
A woman dressed in traditional Norwegian Sami attire in Alta, northern Norway, on Sami people national day on February 6 2016. Credit: Alastair Grant/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.
Poverty, displacement, malnutrition.
Over the next two weeks, these three concerns will be discussed as agenda items at the United Nations’ annual gathering. And yet, indigenous peoples, who suffer at disproportionately high rates from these issue, will not be invited to participate in the meetings, nor any other general assembly sessions.