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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 166
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that States include ethnic identification in vital statistics and health records, allocate more funding for intercultural services that ensure indigenous women’s access to quality health care, including emergency obstetric care, voluntary family planning and skilled attendants at delivery, and that the role of traditional midwives be strengthened and extended.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators, Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: UNFPA, ECLAC
Paragraph Number: 108
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum urges the United Nations Population Fund, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and other regional mechanisms, in collaboration with indigenous peoples, to conduct studies on indigenous peoples, urbanization and migration, with an emphasis on indigenous women and youth.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
