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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 9
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States include in all education curricula, in particular the school system, a discussion of the doctrine of discovery/dispossession and its contemporary manifestations, including land laws and policies of removal.
Area of Work: Education
Addressee: UN agencies funds and programmes, IASG
Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that United Nations entities, including the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, take effective measures to support the promotion of indigenous languages and the successful implementation of the goals and objectives of the International Year, including in activities related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the systemwide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples, the celebration of international days and other processes.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, 2030 Agenda, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 93
Session: 17 (2018)
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Recalling paragraph 40 of its report on its sixteenth session (E/2017/43-E/C.19/2017/11), the Permanent Forum calls on Governments in the Arctic, Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia, along with academics, to take appropriate measures to introduce the endangered languages of their regions into educational practices and include the learning of those languages in curricula at all levels of educational system, when requested by indigenous people.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, Education
Addressee: UN agencies, Member States
Paragraph Number: 15
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the relevant United Nations agencies and Member States with reindeer herding peoples support training and education programmes for indigenous reindeer herding youth and communities in order to secure the future sustainability and resilience of the Arctic and sub-Arctic indigenous pastoral reindeer herding societies and cultures in the face of climate change, land-use change and globalization.
Area of Work: Education, Culture, Environment
Addressee: IP
Paragraph Number: 116
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum urges indigenous peoples’ organizations and academic institutions, in particular indigenous peoples’ universities, to prepare thematic studies, within the mandate areas of the Forum, as a contribution to the preparatory processes leading up to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014.
Area of Work: Education, Cooperation
