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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 118
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States, in order to combat the adverse effects of migration, cooperate with indigenous peoples to provide employment and economic development opportunities within their territories.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Asia Indigenous Peoples' Caucus
Paragraph Number: 130
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum supports the initiative of the Asia Indigenous Peoples' Caucus to undertake research and hold a regional conference on the question of indigenousness in Asia in order to bring about better dialogue and understanding on the issue
Area of Work: Culture
Addressee: Artic Council
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon the Arctic Council to provide the indigenous permanent participants in the Council with adequate financial resources, enabling them to effectively participate in all relevant activities of the Council.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: UNESCO
Paragraph Number: 24
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum urges UNESCO to develop an indigenous peoples’ platform within the agency to ensure that UNESCO language programmes provide tangible benefits to indigenous communities and ensure that indigenous peoples are active in all aspects of the work of UNESCO.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, Culture
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 98
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum also recommends to Member States that the development agenda beyond 2015 recognize, protect and strengthen indigenous peoples’ collective rights, in particular the right to land, territories and natural resources.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, MDGs
Addressee: UN entities; World Bank; Green Climate Fund; African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Paragraph Number: 27
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum encourages United Nations entities, the World Bank, the Green Climate Fund, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other relevant international and regional bodies to align their policies with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Peoples should be employed within those entities as part of diversity and inclusion policies and to ensure Indigenous perspectives.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: UNDP
Paragraph Number: 053 (Session 9 Appendix)
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that a capacity-development component be included in UNDP projects that affect indigenous peoples. The Forum also recommends that the experience and knowledge of the Small Grants Programme of the Global Environmental Facility be utilized by other small-grant schemes and that a stronger link be developed between efforts to enhance the capacity of indigenous peoples’ organizations and UNDP efforts to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples in national policy processes
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: UN system/UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 148
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations system continue to build the capacities of indigenous peoples’ organizations and to develop their knowledge and skills to have their rights respected, protected and fulfilled.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: UNDP
Paragraph Number: 27
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum welcomes UNDP’s contribution to the Forum and its support of the establishment of a working group on free, prior and informed consent and of the initiative to develop a land rights policy. The Forum also recognizes the key role UNDP can play in data collection and disaggregation through its national human development reports and the Millennium Development Goals reports. The Forum also recognizes that the Goals can provide an overall framework for furthering indigenous peoples’ development.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 61
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends Member States and United Nations agencies to include indigenous peoples in the activities programmed to commemorate the International Year of Quinoa.
Area of Work: Culture
Paragraph Number: 74
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum requests that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples identify the actions of transnational corporations that may breach the inherent rights detailed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and further invites them to present a report to the Forum at its eighth session, in 2009.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 117
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the report on the International Workshop on Perspectives of Relationships between Indigenous Peoples and Industrial Corporations, organized jointly by the Administration of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, and the secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, with support from the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, held in Salekhard, Russian Federation, on 2 and 3 July 2007, and calls upon States to fully support and accept the recommendations contained in the report.
Area of Work: Culture, Indigenous Children and Youth
