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John Halpern speaks to director James Cameron about his film Avatar at a special screening co-sponsored by Tribal Link.

The event was also co-sponsored by the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Conservation International, and UNDP/GEF’s Small Grants Programme. In attendance were hundreds of indigenous representatives who have traveled to New York to attend the Ninth Session of the UNPFII at UN Headquarters (April 19-30, 2010).