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Addressee: UN
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes a third United Nations seminar on indigenous peoples’ understanding and interpretation of treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements.
Area of Work: Cooperation, Human Rights
Paragraph Number: 90
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and relevant special rapporteurs working in the field of human rights review the implementation of their recommendations and provide reports to the Permanent Forum at its seventh session regarding their interactions with relevant States and indigenous peoples and activate, with OHCHR, when necessary, United Nations inter-agency and inter-department early warning procedures and rapid response mechanisms.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum takes note with concern of the situation of indigenous peoples of the Sahel and other parts of Africa, where a number of factors, including climate change, are having a devastating impact on economic development and human security. The lack of recognition of the collective rights of these peoples has created fertile ground for their loss of territories and resources and the emergence of complex forms of conflict, including violent extremism. The Forum calls on the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to prepare recommendations for the consideration of the African Union to address this situation, in partnership with the Economic Commission for Africa and other regional bodies.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources, Human Rights
Addressee: Member States, UN Agencies, IPO
Paragraph Number: 135
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that interested parties organize an international expert group meeting on the theme “Indigenous peoples: sacred plants and sites, articles 11, 24 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”, and requests that the conclusions of such a meeting be submitted to the Forum at its tenth session.
Area of Work: Environment, Culture
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 15 (2016)
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Consistent with articles 7 and 30 of the United Nations Declaration, States should take measures for settlement, protection and security in the post-conflict period, and for the construction of durable and lasting peace, promoting the full and effective inclusion of indigenous peoples, including indigenous women, in any initiative for peace and reconciliation.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Paragraph Number: 159
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the announcement during this session of the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights by eight global conservation organizations — the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund, Fauna and Flora International, Wetlands International, BirdLife International, the Nature Conservancy, the Wildlife Conservation Society and Conservation International — which aims to promote the integration of human rights in conservation policy and practice, based on their common interest in promoting positive links between conservation and rights of people to secure their livelihoods, enjoy healthy and productive environments and live with dignity. The Forum recommends that these conservation organizations ensure the full participation of indigenous peoples in the implementation of the Initiative. The Forum further recommends that conservation organizations that have projects that have led to the eviction of indigenous peoples from their forests provide redress and restitution to such victims.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 139
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum expresses its appreciation to the Member States that have already submitted information to it over the years, and encourages all States to submit substantive information on measures taken to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum regrets the very high incarceration rates of indigenous peoples globally, which contributes to poor health, poverty and untimely death, including in indigenous families and communities. States are reminded of their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and should therefore address this issue urgently by reducing the incarceration and eliminating the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment of indigenous peoples by justice systems.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum expresses thanks to the Government of Canada for hosting its pre-sessional meeting for 2016 and to the Governments of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Canada, China, the Congo, Denmark, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, the Russian Federation, Spain and the United States of America, as well as the Government of Greenland, for having hosted previous
pre-sessional and intersessional meetings of the Forum. The Forum recommends that States that have not yet done so consider hosting such meetings in the future. It also requests that the secretariat of the Forum organize pre-sessional meetings for future sessions of the Forum.
Area of Work: Future Work
Addressee: Member States, Russian Federation, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Transcaucasia
Paragraph Number: 91
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Governments of Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia regions to work in good faith with indigenous peoples for the unqualified endorsement and full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Commission on Sustainable Development, and other UN bodies, such as UNDP, UNESCO, and UNEP.
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 2 (2003)
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With regard to the environmental issue of water, the Forum, recognizing the indigenous peoples’ Kyoto water declaration made at the World Water Forum, held in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2003, requests that the Commission on Sustainable Development and other relevant United Nations bodies (i.e., UNEP, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNDP) consider the declaration in their discussions on this theme in 2004.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 81
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States incorporate adequate information on the implementation of the Declaration in their core reports to the human rights treaty bodies.
Area of Work: Human rights
