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Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States discontinue all sedentarization and other programmes that coerce indigenous peoples to forsake shifting cultivation for other modes of cultivation without their free, prior and informed consent. Alternative modes of cultivation ensure food sovereignty, livelihood security, health security, educational security and forest conservation and other safeguards.

Area of Work: Culture, Economic and Social Development

Addressee: UNESCO

Paragraph Number: 19
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum requests that UNESCO present a report to the Forum by 2020 on the implementation of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, on the basis of the action plan for organizing it (see E/C.19/2018/8).

Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, Culture