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Addressee: OHCHR in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Paragraph Number: 69
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum urges OHCHR in the Plurinational State of Bolivia to continue and strengthen its monitoring of the human rights of the Guaraní people to address as a matter of urgency the situation of the families and communities that are subjected to forced labour and other forms of servitude and to report regularly and publicly on developments in that situation. In the area of technical assistance, the Permanent Forum urges OHCHR in the Plurinational State of Bolivia to strengthen the human rights capacities of the Guaraní authorities in Alto Parapetí and other districts where there are serious human rights violations.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States, WHO, UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 11
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States and the United Nations system, with particular attention to the activities of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), introduce indigenous youth perspectives into existing youth policies and plans, including the five-year action agenda of the Secretary-General to address health issues. In addition, there should be a distinct focus on indigenous youth by improving participation in decision-making and by introducing and including mental health services for young people, with particular efforts to address suicide among indigenous youth.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Health
Paragraph Number: 90
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and relevant special rapporteurs working in the field of human rights review the implementation of their recommendations and provide reports to the Permanent Forum at its seventh session regarding their interactions with relevant States and indigenous peoples and activate, with OHCHR, when necessary, United Nations inter-agency and inter-department early warning procedures and rapid response mechanisms.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN agencies, Member States
Paragraph Number: 25
Session: 10 (2011)
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In regard to the rights of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum reiterates its long-standing position of encouraging the United Nations, its organs and specialized agencies, as well as all States, to adopt a human rights-based approach. At the international, regional and national level, the human rights of indigenous peoples are always relevant if such rights are at risk of being undermined. Human rights are indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated. They must be respected in any context specifically concerning indigenous peoples, from environment to development, to peace and security, and many other issues.
Area of Work: Human rights, Cooperation, Methods of Work
Addressee: Members States
Paragraph Number: 47
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon States, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to establish national initiatives, programmes and plans of work to implement the Declaration with clear timelines and priorities. States and indigenous peoples should report regularly to their national legislative bodies and to the Forum on the progress and shortcomings in implementing the Declaration.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 69
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that Member States, the intergovernmental system, international financial institutions and the private sector respect and adhere to the principle of free, prior and informed consent in all matters affecting indigenous peoples
Area of Work: Human Rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 82
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to recognize and protect indigenous peoples’ cultural right to water and, through legislation and policy, to support the right of indigenous peoples to hunt and gather food resources from waters used for cultural, economic and commercial purposes. This is consistent with article 25 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights, Environment, Culture
Addressee: Member States, Russian Federation, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Transcaucasia
Paragraph Number: 91
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Governments of Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia regions to work in good faith with indigenous peoples for the unqualified endorsement and full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN Treaty Bodies and Member States
Paragraph Number: 82
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the relevant treaty bodies take into account the Declaration and urges States to include information regarding its implementation in their reports to the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UNDP
Paragraph Number: 125
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the Regional Initiative on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Development of UNDP and, in particular, the pilot projects on gathering disaggregated data in the Philippines and Nepal. The Permanent Forum also recommends that the Regional Indigenous Peoples’ Programme continue this work in other countries.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
Paragraph Number: 69
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the efforts of Member States, United Nations entities and other intergovernmental organizations to implement the Declaration, as reaffirmed in the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, as well as the recommendations of the Forum, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People in various regions, and urges them to take specific measures in this regard.
Area of Work: World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 15 (2016)
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Consistent with the commitments in the outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (General Assembly resolution 69/2) and the standards for indigenous peoples’ survival, dignity and well-being contained in the United Nations Declaration, the Permanent Forum recommends that States fully engage indigenous peoples in good-faith negotiations of treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements on the basis of the unequivocal recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and resources and to fully reject the extinguishment of indigenous rights in form or result. Furthermore, the Forum recommends that States address the call for full and effective redress for the loss of lands, territories and resources and State breaches of treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements. The Forum reiterates the urgent need for States to institute, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, high-level oversight bodies to guide and oversee the conduct of negotiations and implementation of treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements in the light of ongoing negotiation and implementation issues. Building on the recommendations advanced at the eleventh session of the Forum, States are encouraged to support the resolution of disputes between indigenous peoples by providing financial and other methods of support to achieve peaceful resolution.
Area of Work: Human rights, Lands and Resources
