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Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 64
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF, when completing its strategic policy framework on indigenous peoples, include indigenous youth in the design of the policy. In addition, particular attention is needed to reflect the diversity among indigenous children and to focus on vulnerable groups, such as victims of human trafficking and child pornography, as well as groups facing manifold discrimination based on gender, disability or sexual orientation.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Cooperation
Paragraph Number: 134
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the report submitted by the International Indian Treaty Council and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on the three-year field-testing programme for the cultural indicators for food security, food sovereignty and sustainable development, which included the input of more than 450 indigenous representatives from 66 indigenous communities and peoples in five countries. The Forum recognizes the importance of such collaborative programmes undertaken jointly by United Nations agencies and indigenous peoples, and calls upon members of the Inter-Agency Support Group and Member States and agencies to develop and apply the cultural indicators in accordance with their mandates, in collaboration with indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
Addressee: ECOSOC, HLPF, CSW, CSD
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon the Economic and Social Council, including its youth forum, the high-level political forum on sustainable development, the Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission for Social Development, as well as other relevant United Nations forums, to include representatives of indigenous youth-led organizations in their meetings.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 4 (2005)
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Indigenous professionals, technicians, and indigenous leaders should build their capacity in respect of data-collection processes and non-indigenous professionals and technicians should be informed of the culture and practices of indigenous peoples
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 7
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum recalls the relevance of article 13 (1) of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and encourages States to step up efforts, in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples, to advance the realization of the linguistic and cultural rights of Indigenous Peoples, including through the right to education in Indigenous Peoples’ languages in the context of the International Decade.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032)
Addressee: SPFII, UNICEF, UNITAR, UNDP
Paragraph Number: 51
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the secretariat of the Permanent Forum, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, UNDP and the United Nations Programme on Youth cooperate closely with the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus to conduct and support regional and international human rights training programmes to build the capacity and advocacy skills of indigenous youth.
Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO, ILO, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNFPA and other United Nations bodies and Member States
Paragraph Number: 21
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO, the ILO, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNFPA and other United Nations bodies, in collaboration with Governments and in close coordination with indigenous peoples, prepare a Latin American conference of indigenous children and youth in 2004, taking into account the experience of the Subregional Conference of Indigenous Youth and Children, held in Quito in 2001.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UN System, Member States, NGOs
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum is deeply concerned that the problems and discrimination facing indigenous children and youth are not reflected in the Millennium Development Goals, and it urges States and United Nations organizations to develop culturally sensitive policies, programmes and projects that fully incorporate indigenous children and youth into achieving the Goals.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, MDGs
Addressee: IASG
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues convene a technical workshop on indicators, in collaboration with the United Nations organizations dealing with this issue, with the participation of indigenous experts, with a view to promoting a collaborative, complementary and holistic approach to indicators in order to enhance understanding of indigenous concerns and their possible solution, and requests the workshop to submit its report to the Permanent Forum at its sixth session.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
Addressee: UN SG, UN agencies funds and programmes
Paragraph Number: 38
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Secretary-General to appoint a special envoy on indigenous languages, in consultation with indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages
Addressee: IASG on Indigenous Peoples' Issues
Paragraph Number: 72
Session: 15 (2016)
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On the basis of the constructive dialogue between the Permanent Forum and the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, the Forum recommends that the members of the Support Group demonstrate strong commitment from the highest level, including by: (a) Institutionalizing dialogue between the expert members of the Forum and the principals of the funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system; (b) Allocating sufficient resources to implement the system-wide action plan for ensuring a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration; (c) Establishing institutional consultation mechanisms to ensure active collaboration and partnership with indigenous peoples at the national, regional and global levels, in both developing and developed countries; (d) Incorporating specific targets and indicators with disaggregated data to address the key issues and priorities of indigenous peoples at the national level; (e) Ensuring active cooperation between the Support Group and Forum members holding relevant agency portfolios.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Data Collection and Indicators
Paragraph Number: 84
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes progress made by the funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system in continuing to implement the system-wide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples and recommends the continuation and expansion of this work by conducting an analysis, led by the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, of the Forum’s recommendations, with the aim of identifying best practices, gaps and challenges, and by exploring ways to implement outstanding recommendations by 2021.
Area of Work: SWAP
