he United Nations Secretariat for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues invited the Standing Committee of the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation (Dana Standing Committee) in partnership with the Coordinating Committee of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP) to organize a side-event at the Fifth United Nations Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), 15-26 May 2006 in New York. This invitation was made in order to raise awareness of the special circumstances and vulnerabilities of mobile peoples within the larger Indigenous Peoples Movement. 17 representatives of mobile peoples from Africa, the Middle East and Asia took part in the UN Permanent Forum meetings.
