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Addressee: Bolivia
Paragraph Number: 38
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the fact that the principles and rules contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples have been integrated into the new constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, which was ratified in a referendum held on 25 January 2009.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon United Nations agencies, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, other multilateral financial institutions and bilateral donors to establish clear policy commitments to protect the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights, Methods of Work
Addressee: International Community
Paragraph Number: 61
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum urges the international community to support the peace process in Mali and establish an independent monitoring committee that, in accordance with articles 7 and 37 of the United Nations Declaration, would oversee the implementation of the peace agreement of 20 June 2015, with the effective and representative participation of the Tuareg peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 72
Session: 4 (2005)
Full Text:
The Forum invites the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to present an evaluation of the implementation of the Durban Plan of Action at the sixth session of the Forum (2007) pertaining to indigenous peoples, especially indigenous women
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 47
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that all States with indigenous peoples review their legislation, policies and programmes in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN System
Paragraph Number: 15
Session: 16 (2017)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum urges the funds, programmes and agencies of the United Nations system to cooperate with States and indigenous peoples in the development and implementation of national action plans, strategies and other measures that aim to achieve the ends of the Declaration, including by providing support for the advancement and adjudication of the collective rights of indigenous peoples to their lands, territories and resources.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Human Rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 21 (2022)
Full Text:
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: Human Rights Council
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum expresses its concern for the human rights of indigenous peoples in the Non-Self-Governing Territories in the Pacific region and calls on the United Nations Human Rights Council to designate a Special Rapporteur on the situation of indigenous peoples of those territories.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Human Rights Council
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends to the Human Rights Council that, in the course of a universal periodic review, the situation of indigenous peoples of a country under consideration also be examined.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Government of Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that the Government of Paraguay should make resolute progress towards the development of a land registry that will facilitate land titling, and thus the recovery of land by indigenous communities and the territorial reconstitution of their respective peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: IASG
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that a task force be created within the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues to specifically address migration issues of indigenous peoples, as suggested in the 2006 Geneva workshop on this matter (E/C.19/2007/CRP.5).
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Plurinational State of Bolivia
Paragraph Number: 60
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that the Plurinational State of Bolivia should speed up implementation of the constitutional provisions regarding the freeing of individuals, families and communities in the light of the fact that forced labour and servitude are serious human rights violations that must be addressed with great urgency.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
