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Addressee: UNDP, OHCHR and ILO
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that UNDP, OHCHR and ILO facilitate dialogue and provide support to indigenous peoples in the areas of crisis prevention and democratic governance as they relate to extractive industries operating in indigenous territories in order to achieve more effective implementation and protection of indigenous peoples’ rights.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: United Nations, UNDP and ILO
Paragraph Number: 133
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that adequate and sustained funding and other support be provided to the aforementioned projects of UNDP and ILO and that they be replicated in different regions of the world.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: WGIP
Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Working Group on Indigenous Populations include, at its twenty-fifth session in 2007, under its standard-setting mandate, the development of the principle of free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States, UN system
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum invites indigenous peoples, States and relevant organizations of the United Nations system to share experiences on education that represent best practices at the primary or community levels, based on indigenous cultures and traditions. The outcome of such discussions should be published and disseminated widely
Area of Work: MDGs, Education
Addressee: Donor agencies, private sector, UN System
Paragraph Number: 11
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum reaffirms and reiterates that self-determination, free, prior and informed consent and accountability form the basis of, and prerequisite for, any relationship that can be called a true partnership for development, and urges all States, indigenous peoples, United Nations bodies, international development agencies, corporations and the private sector, as well as civil society, to uphold these vital principles.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 107
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum recognizes and applauds other indigenous fellowship programmes, in particular the fellowship programme established and funded by the regular budget of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the newly established fellowship programme of the ILO. Furthermore, the Forum particularly recognizes the capacity-building efforts of the indigenous fellowship programme of the Office and requests that, in order to complement their Geneva based training, the indigenous fellows at the Office should participate, on an annual basis, in the sessions of the Forum. Further consideration should also be given to provide some time for training at the secretariat of the Forum, during non-sessional periods.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UNDP, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 14
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that UNDP and other United Nations agencies establish a special programme for indigenous professionals that will serve as an entry point inclusion of these professionals as UNDP staff. This will significantly enrich diversity in human development views and knowledge within the organization.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 136
Session: 4 (2005)
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With a view to strengthening collaboration during the intersessional period, and further developing expert recommendations to member organizations of the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues, the Forum decides to increase visits by its members to these entities to carry out an in-depth analysis of the programs, activities and operations at the international, regional and national levels
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
Addressee: USA
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the United States of America grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, who has been imprisoned since 1977 and is now an elderly person.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to promote and protect the rights of indigenous women and men working as journalists, communicators and as human rights defenders in accordance with international human rights law, in particular in accordance with article 16 of the Declaration, which calls for the full freedom of expression of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 83
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon States that have not already done so to engage in constructive partnerships with indigenous peoples to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and to adopt specific action plans, strategies or other measures that will deliver required financial and technical assistance to indigenous peoples in order for them to achieve and exercise self-determination.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Paragraph Number: 18
Session: 4 (2005)
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The common country assessment/United Nations Development Assistance Framework, poverty reduction strategy papers and other development processes, national or international, should ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, including indigenous women
Area of Work: Cooperation, MDGs
