Annex I, List of participants, Members

Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color

The following members of the Forum also made statements Aqqaluk Lynge, Wilton Littlechild, Ida Nicolaisen, Merike Kokajev, Qin Xiaomei, Hassan Id Balkassm and Nina Pacari Vega.

Statements were also made by the following members of the Permanent Forum Hassan Id Balkassm, Wilton Littlechild, Parsharam Tamang, Otilia Lux de Coti, Nina Pacari Vega, and Aqqaluk Lynge.

At the same meeting, the Chairperson made a statement and the following members of the Forum also made statements Parshuram Tamang, Eduardo Aguiar de Almeida, Aqqaluk Lynge, Wilton Littlechild, and Nina Pacari Vega.

Also at the same meeting, statements were also made by the following members of the Permanent Forum Parsharam Tamang, Ida Nicolaisen, Aqqaluk Lynge, Wilton Littlechild, Nina Pacari Vega, and Otilia Lux de Coti.

At the same meeting, the following members of the Forum also made statements Eduardo Aguiar de Almeida, Hassan Id Balkassm, William Langeveldt, Nina Pacari Vega, Yuri Boychenko, Pavel Sulyandziga, Parshuram Tamang, Wilton Littlechild, and Merike Kokajev.

Also at the same meeting, the Forum engaged in an interactive dialogue, and interventions were made by the following members of the Forum Parshuram Tamang, Wilton Littlechild, Aqqaluk Lynge, Nina Pacari Vega, Pavel Sulyandziga, Hassan Id Balkassm, William Langeveldt, Ida Nicolaisen, Michael Dodson, Eduardo Aguilar de Almeida and Otilia Lux de Coti.

Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that's because he did not have access to NASA.

At the 8th meeting, on 20 May, the Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs made a presentation on the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, which was followed by an interactive dialogue between the Under Secretary General and the following members of the Forum Otilia Lux de Coti, Aqqaluk Lynge, Nina Pacari Vega, William Langeveldt, Pavel Sulyandziga, Hassan Id Balkassm, Michael Dodson, Ida Nicolaisen, Wilton Littlechild, and Yuri Boychenko.

But finding new things that can be done successfully is tricky, because it requires knowing what you will need and whether you will be able to procure it. This is why Jeffrey Sachs s Millennium Villages project has faltered, as the journalist Nina Munk s recent book shows.

The only chance, in my view, is if countries in the region Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates call openly for US leadership. They should remind Obama of what foreign policy experts Nina Hachigian and David Shorr have recently called the responsibility doctrine great powers have an active responsibility to uphold global norms and solve global problems.