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Addressee: DOCIP
Paragraph Number: 73
Session: 8 (2009)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum welcomes the organization of a workshop by the Indigenous People’s Center for Documentation, Research and Information in recognition of the historical role played by indigenous peoples within the United Nations system.
Area of Work: Cooperation, Methods of Work
Addressee: Committee on the Rights of the Child
Paragraph Number: 73
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:
The Forum recommends that the Committee on the Rights of the Child, as the treaty monitoring body for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, review the compliance of States Parties with article 24, which recognized the basic right of all children to "the provision of adequate and nutritional foods and clean drinking water, taking into consideration the dangers and risks of environmental pollution", with particular attention to its impact on traditional subsistence foods, and that the Committee address those issues during the day of general discussion on the indigenous child in September 2003.
Area of Work: Health
