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Addressee: Terri Henry

Paragraph Number: 108
Session: 16 (2017)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum appoints Terri Henry, a member of the Forum to undertake a study on spotlight in North America: good practices in addressing violence against indigenous women and the impact of grassroots movements in achieving national action, to be submitted to the Forum at its eighteenth session.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women

Addressee: CSW

Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 15 (2016)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum welcomes the intention of the Commission on the Status of Women to make the issue of the empowerment of indigenous women a focus area of its sixty-first session, to be held in 2017. The Forum invites the Bureau of the Commission to consider organizing a half-day session on the issue. The Forum calls upon the Commission to consider the empowerment of indigenous women as a theme in future sessions, pursuant to paragraph 19 of General Assembly resolution 69/2.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women