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Paragraph Number: 89
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators provide support for the inclusion and methodological development of core indicators for indigenous peoples in the global indicator framework, in particular the inclusion of the indicator on the legal recognition of the land rights of indigenous peoples for the targets under Goals 1 and 2.

Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Paragraph Number: 89
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that States and United Nations organizations involve indigenous peoples' representatives in designing, implementing and monitoring data collection and disaggregation by ensuring their membership in the mechanism of national commissions on population censuses and related institutional arrangements.

Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
Paragraph Number: 18
Session: 7 (2008)
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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples should serve as a key and binding framework in the formulation of plans for development and should be considered fundamental in all processes related to climate change at the local, national, regional and global levels. The safeguard policies of the multilateral banks and the existing and future policies on indigenous peoples of United Nations bodies and other multilateral bodies should be implemented in all climate change-related projects and programmes.

Area of Work: Environment, Economic and Social Development

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 18
Session: 10 (2011)
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States should recognize indigenous peoples’ rights to forests and should review and amend laws that are not consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other international standards on indigenous peoples’ land and natural resource rights, including over forests. This includes indigenous peoples’ customary law on land and resource rights and the right to be fully involved in decision-making processes.

Area of Work: Environment