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Addressee: UN system
Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 11 (2012)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum welcomes with appreciation the decision of the General Assembly, in its resolution 66/141, to request that the Secretary-General submit to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a comprehensive report on the rights of the child, including a focus on indigenous children. The Forum wishes to take part in any initiative undertaken by the Secretary-General in preparing the comprehensive report on the rights of the child.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UN system
Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 4 (2005)
Full Text:
United Nations agencies should provide incentives and funding opportunities for indigenous youth organizations to initiate non-formal education activities targeting girls and women. Where initiatives already exist, they should develop replication strategies and scale up existing initiatives
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Paragraph Number: 99
Session: 4 (2005)
Full Text:
The United Nations Children's Fund should initiate country-specific situation analyses of indigenous youth and children through field offices in countries with indigenous communities and transmit such situation analyses to the Forum
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: ECLAC
Paragraph Number: 99
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum welcomes the work carried out by ECLAC through the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE)-Population Division on the production and analysis of available census data, incorporating the perspective and participation of indigenous peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, and recommends that ECLAC:
(a) Invite the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights to contribute to its work on indicators;
(b) Increase the number of technical studies that contribute to the development of culturally sensitive indicators in order to monitor Millennium Development Goals as part of a coordinated effort by other parts of the United Nations system;
(c) Build capacity and provide technical assistance to governmental officers and indigenous organizations in the production, analysis and use of sociodemographic information for public policies, in particular taking into account the 2010 census round;
(d) Mainstream indigenous peoples’ views in all relevant activities of the institution in the context of economic, social and cultural rights.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
