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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum strongly urges Member States to uphold the linguistic rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: ILO
Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum encourages ILO to promote the ratification of the Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, 1989 (No. 169) (Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention).
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Kenya
Paragraph Number: 60
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Government of Kenya to implement the recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the rights of Endorois to the ownership of their ancestral lands, to the restitution thereof and to compensation in that connection.
Area of Work: Human rights, lands and resources
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon all States to ensure that their political institutions and structures are not used as a reason to relieve the State of its responsibility to implement international human rights obligations in relation to the rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Plurinational State of Bolivia
Paragraph Number: 60
Session: 9 (2010)
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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
Addressee: UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum recommends: (a) using the model of engaging directly with indigenous peoples that is used by the small grants programme delivery mechanism, developed by UNDP since 1992 for implementation of projects at the local level; and (b) strengthen engagement with indigenous peoples in developing innovative tools and methodologies that are suited to and respectful of their cultures and knowledge.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Paragraph Number: 60
Session: 15 (2016)
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With reference to article 42 of the United Nations Declaration, the Permanent Forum invites African States, in particular Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Mali, Nigeria and Rwanda, to present, at its sixteenth session, information on the situation of indigenous peoples affected by conflict in those countries.
Area of Work: Human rights
