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Addressee: WIPO Voluntary Fund for Accredited Indigenous and Local Communities, other relevant UN entities
Paragraph Number: 27
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum is concerned about the reduction in indigenous-specific funding for programmes and projects by United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, for example the depletion of resources of the voluntary fund of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for accredited indigenous peoples and local community observers. The Forum recommends that such United Nations entities ensure substantial funding to support targeted programmes and projects for indigenous peoples consistent with article 41 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: UN system, Member States
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum urges the United Nations system and States to give special priority to implementing previous recommendations made by the Forum, and to take into account the cross-cutting nature of human rights issues.
Area of Work: Human rights, Cooperation
Addressee: Indigenous Parliamentarians, UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 143
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes the role of indigenous parliamentarians in the promotion and protection of indigenous peoples’ rights, and thus recommends increasing their participation in the sessions of the Permanent Forum, adopting regional and national mechanisms to monitor the recommendations and working towards the establishment of particular mechanisms of participation.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
Addressee: IASG
Paragraph Number: 15
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues compile a database on case studies showing the progress made by Member States and organizations regarding indigenous youth rights in the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: Members States, others
Paragraph Number: 9
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the launching of the United Nations Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership (UNIPP) and urges Member States and others to provide support for the implementation of joint country programmes in at least 8 to 10 countries over the next five years and to the Regional Initiative on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Development in Asia and the Pacific through UNIPP.
Area of Work: Cooperation, Methods of Work
Paragraph Number: 14
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum calls on Member States, UNDP and other relevant organizations to effectively involve indigenous peoples in the review processes of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals at the national and local levels and to ensure that disaggregated data on how the Goals are achieved in indigenous peoples territories be included.
Area of Work: MDGs, Cooperation
Addressee: Indigenous Peoples
Paragraph Number: 139
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum encourages organizers of pre-sessional regional meetings of indigenous peoples to develop suggestions and recommendations for the Forum to consider and encourages its members to participate in such meetings
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
Addressee: UN system, UN country teams
Paragraph Number: 93
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the evaluation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that took place in Guatemala, the results of which were presented to the experts of the Permanent Forum, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. The Forum recommends that similar practices be implemented by other United Nations country teams and other countries.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: Member states
Paragraph Number: 127
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon Member States to support cross-border cultural communications and initiatives between indigenous peoples of the region to foster their common languages, heritage and traditional knowledge.
Area of Work: Cooperation, Culture
Addressee: UNDP
Paragraph Number: 048 (Session 9 Appendix)
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that UNDP utilize the expertise of Permanent Forum members by keeping them informed of programmes and projects involving indigenous peoples within their areas of responsibility and obtaining their input and involvement on proposed projects and subsequent implementation.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
Paragraph Number: 121
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum invites the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Special Rapporteur on the right to development to attend the eighth session of the Forum.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Paragraph Number: 130
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that, prior to its seventh session, United Nations organizations should provide technical assistance and convene, in cooperation with indigenous peoples’ organizations, regional workshops on the special theme of the seventh session, “Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods: the stewardship of indigenous peoples and new challenges”, with the participation of the members of the Forum and other experts, indigenous peoples’ representatives, indigenous parliamentarians, State representatives and representatives of the United Nations system, in order to formulate recommendations for consideration, as part of its preparatory work for the seventh session. The Permanent Forum further recommends that States, organizations and donors provide resources for these regional workshops and that the report on the human rights situation of indigenous peoples in States and Territories threatened with extinction for environmental reasons be included in the discussions held at the workshops.
Area of Work: Environment, Cooperation
