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Addressee: Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum encourages the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to recognize the importance of and emphasize support for indigenous agricultural systems, including forestry, shifting cultivation, fisheries, livestock, pastoralism and hunting-gathering systems, and their associated biodiversity, foods, knowledge systems and cultures. It encourages FAO to promote the responsible use of culturally appropriate agricultural inputs and technology so as to protect the traditional livelihoods of indigenous peoples
Area of Work: Environment, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: PFII Members, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum renews the recommendation made at its first session on the need to create a three-year working group on free, prior informed consent and participatory research guidelines, under the aegis of the Forum, with funding from the regular budget that includes a focus on how the guidelines relate to the protection of indigenous knowledge and natural resources.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 44
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that States where indigenous peoples live formulate and implement public policies with gender and ethnic considerations, taking into account the multicultural and multi-ethnic composition of their populations.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
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: United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Paragraph Number: 82
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum welcomes the contributions of the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to data-collection and disaggregation projects and recommends that these processes develop indicators that are culturally sensitive to indigenous peoples
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 56
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to financially resource, empower and support local Arctic indigenous communities in order to give indigenous youth and women, together with other members of the communities, the opportunity to secure and develop their cultures.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States formally recognize shifting cultivation as a traditional occupation for indigenous peoples that is closely related to their social and cultural identity and integrity and take effective measures to stop all discriminatory acts targeted at indigenous peoples’ practice of shifting cultivation in line with the provisions of ILO Conventions Nos. 169 and 111, ILO Recommendation No. 104 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including through the delineation and the titling of the territories and lands concerned.
Area of Work: Culture, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 21 (2022)
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In accordance with article 16 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, indigenous peoples have the right to full freedom of expression, including the right to establish their own media in their own languages. The Permanent Forum is concerned that indigenous peoples of Latin America have been criminalized for the establishment of community radio stations and urges Member States to protect the rights of indigenous communicators
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: General Assembly, Member States
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum invites the General Assembly to consider the creation of a distinct United Nations voluntary fund for indigenous youth or the earmarking of existing and future funds to increase and enhance the direct participation of indigenous youth at the United Nations. Furthermore, the Forum encourages every State Member of the United Nations to make multi-year voluntary contributions to such existing and/or future funds.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum, taking into account the meetings between the World Bank and indigenous peoples held during its second session on the guidelines and operative policies and procedural norms of the Bank, recommends that the Bank:
(a) Continue to address issues currently outstanding, including Bank implementation of international
customary laws and standards, in particular human rights instruments, full recognition of customary land and resource rights of indigenous peoples, recognition of the right of free, prior informed consent of indigenous peoples regarding development projects that affect them, and prohibition of the involuntary resettlement of indigenous peoples;
(b) Compile examples of best practices in development projects with indigenous peoples and include those best practices in future policies;
(c) Discuss the issues of forced relocation and land rights;
(d) Facilitate and support the exchange of knowledge and information between indigenous organizations;
(e) Facilitate and support the exchange of information on the implementation of policies on indigenous peoples by international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the legal reforms and policies carried out in some States to recognize the right of indigenous peoples to food and food sovereignty. It would also like to encourage the remaining States to take the steps towards its recognition. The Permanent Forum encourages States to take positive actions to facilitate the capacity of indigenous peoples to strengthen traditional food systems, such as formally recognizing and demarcating indigenous territories to enable them to carry out productive food activities, in accordance with article
8 (2) (b) of the Declaration, which prohibits States from any action that has the aim or effect of dispossessing indigenous peoples of their lands, territories or resources.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: DESA
Paragraph Number: 104
Session: 16 (2017)
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Recalling its recommendations made at its first, sixth and ninth sessions that called for publication of the report entitled “State of the world’s indigenous peoples”, the Permanent Forum requests the Department of Economic and Social Affairs to continue its publication of the document on a quadrennial basis.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
