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Addressee: UN System
Paragraph Number: 72
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the first indigenous media zone, established at the sixteenth session of the Forum, and encourages the continuation of this initiative at future sessions, in cooperation with indigenous community media, and, where possible, encourages United Nations entities to continue collaboration with indigenous community media at the regional and national levels.
Area of Work: Capacity Building, Communications
Paragraph Number: 11
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum also recommends that WIPO organize a second indigenous expert workshop on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions before 2021
Area of Work: Capacity Building, Intellectual property
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 12
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum urges all States to substantially increase the human, financial and technical resources made available to implement the Declaration, in accordance with article 39 thereof, and to overcome the remaining gaps between the formal recognition of indigenous peoples and the implementation of their rights.
Area of Work: Capacity Building
Addressee: WIPO
Paragraph Number: 11
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The Permanent Forum also recommends that WIPO organize a second indigenous expert workshop on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions before 2021
Area of Work: Capacity Building, Intellectual property
Paragraph Number: 6
Session: 14 (2015)
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1) The Permanent Forum recommends that States, indigenous peoples and United Nations agencies, funds and programmes immediately engage in a consultative process focused on the full and effective implementation of the outcome document at the local, national, regional and international levels. 2) It also recommends that the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs outline and provide his vision of a procedure to guarantee the direct participation of representatives of indigenous peoples, including the expert members of the Forum, in the preparation and coordination of the system-wide action plan, with the objective of promoting and protecting the human rights of indigenous peoples and to enhance and increase the coherence of the activities of the United Nations system in that regard. 3) The Forum invites the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs to inform the Forum on the progress at its fifteenth session.
Area of Work: Outcome Document and System-Wide Action Plan
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum urges Member States to contribute support to make possible the annual UNITAR training programme to enhance the conflict prevention and peacemaking capacities of indigenous peoples’ representatives so as to strengthen indigenous capacity to engage in negotiation, dialogue and peace processes to contribute to sustainable peace.
Area of Work: Capacity Building, Human Rights
Addressee: UN System
Paragraph Number: 69
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum recalls that in paragraph 7 of its report on its tenth session (E/2011/43-E/C.19/2011/14), it congratulated the International Fund for Agricultural Development on the establishment of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum as an example of good practice that should be followed by other United Nations entities. The Forum urges other United Nations entities to report on their progress achieved in this regard to the Forum at its seventeenth session.
Area of Work: Participation, Capacity building
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 106
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum invites States to support the strengthening of local and regional indigenous peoples’ institutions on the management of lands, water and resources, as recommended in the Pikialasorsuaq project of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and the Deatnu (Tana) salmon management project on cross-border cooperation.
Area of Work: Capacity Building
Addressee: Green Climate Fund
Paragraph Number: 113
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the adoption by the Green Climate Fund of the Indigenous Peoples Policy and the Environmental and Social Policy, as well as the establishment of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group by the Fund, and encourages the Fund to support specific capacity-building programmes for indigenous peoples as part of the readiness and preparatory programme to ensure their full and effective engagement with the Fund at all levels and in all activities.
Area of Work: Capacity Building, Enhanced Participation at the UN
