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Addressee: UN System, Member States
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 5 (2006)
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United Nations organizations and States should pay special attention to the specific situation and needs of elderly indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: UN system, UNIFEM, UNICEF and Member States
Paragraph Number: 47
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that appropriate United Nations organizations, including the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), as well as States, take immediate action to review and monitor the situation of indigenous women and provide comprehensive reports on violence against indigenous women and girls, particularly sexual violence and violence in the context of armed conflict. Indigenous women must be full participants in this process.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to intensify efforts at the national level to implement Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 on women, peace and security, including through national action plans that pay special attention to indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States, UN System, and IPOs
Paragraph Number: 137
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum also recommends that States, United Nations organizations and indigenous peoples’ organizations strengthen the necessary communication, education and information infrastructure and support networks of educators on indigenous issues. Information and communication technologies (ICT) for indigenous peoples must be supported in order to close the technological and information gap.
Area of Work: Education, MDGs
Addressee: IOM
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the initiative of IOM to establish a coordination mechanism for combating the trafficking of indigenous women and girls.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: IFAD
Paragraph Number: 166
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum supports the willingness of IFAD to consider continuing to operate the World Bank’s Grants Facility for Indigenous Peoples. It recommends that IFAD make every effort to substantially enhance this Facility through its own grant funding mechanism as well as through seeking the contributions of other international financial institutions as well as bilateral and multilateral donors.
Area of Work: Education
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 5 (2006)
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States are urged to allocate budgets in order to implement quality services to reduce maternal mortality and ensure indigenous women’s access to reproductive health services.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Donors, Member States , IFAD, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 164
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendations on the establishment of the indigenous fellowship programme within its secretariat and requests Governments, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), other donors and foundations to contribute to the fellowship programme so that it can be launched and administered in 2007.
Area of Work: Education
Addressee: States, UN agencies, PFII
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 5 (2006)
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There generally appears to be positive recognition of the approach to Goal 1 suggested by the Permanent Forum, while there has been less attention paid to Goal 2. In both areas, there appears to be an increase in the number of projects being implemented in Latin America, with limited projects in Asia, and one or two projects in Africa. This is particularly the case under Goal 2, where there is a general lack of reporting from Asia or Africa on intercultural/bilingual education projects or programmes in this area.
Area of Work: MDGs, Education
Addressee: UN agencies, Member States
Paragraph Number: 44
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, included indigenous women among those who had encountered particular barriers to full equality and advancement, both as women and as members of their communities. The review and appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action acknowledged that indigenous women continued to face many obstacles and challenges, which included multiple forms of discrimination based on gender, race and ethnicity, as well as the impact of globalization and environmental degradation.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
