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Addressee: UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 133
Session: 4 (2005)
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In order to facilitate its work, the Forum decides to appoint Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chairperson of the Forum, and Wilton Littlechild, Member of the Forum, as Special Rapporteurs, to prepare, without financial implications, an analytical paper with a concise thematic compiliation of the recommendations of the first three sessions of the Forum, and their status of implementation at the national, regional and international levels, and to submit it to the Permanent Forum at its fifth session, in 2006
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: UN Resident coordinators, UN country teams
Paragraph Number: 16
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum encourages resident coordinators and United Nations country teams to ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, including indigenous women and youth, in the preparation of the United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and country programme action plans.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: World Intellectual Property Organization
Paragraph Number: 14
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum regrets the lack of progress in enhancing participation by indigenous peoples at the World Intellectual Property Organization and reiterates previous requests that that Organization adopt a legally binding document to protect the traditional knowledge and intellectual property of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Donor Agencies, UN Systems, UN Country Teams
Paragraph Number: 101
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that United Nations country teams in Asian countries with indigenous populations, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, formulate a matrix of indicators, benchmarks and milestones to assess the outcomes and results of their policies and programmes relevant to indigenous peoples. Furthermore, the Permanent Forum recommends that United Nations agencies and donor agencies expand their funding and technical assistance to support capacity-building of Asian indigenous peoples’ organizations.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Data Collection and Indicators
Addressee: Indigenous peoples' organizations, UN Resident Coordinators' Offices, UN system/UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 7 (2008)
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In order to improve the implementation of its recommendations, the Permanent Forum calls upon United Nations agencies to ensure that there are systems in place to share information with and distribute information to indigenous peoples at the local level so that they have the opportunity to engage with the work of the United Nations at the country level and express their views and concerns and implement their policies. The Forum also encourages indigenous peoples’ organizations to engage actively with the United Nations system at the country level and urges United Nations resident coordinators’ offices to engage with indigenous peoples’ organizations and representatives and ensure their active participation and consultation in policy dialogues at the national level.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: DESA
Paragraph Number: 078 (Session 9 Appendix)
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that each of the six divisions of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (the Division for Sustainable Development; the secretariat of the United Nations Forum on Forests; the Division for Public Administration and Development Management; the Statistics Division; the Division for the Advancement of Women; and the Division for Social Policy and Development, which hosts the secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues) be mindful of the fact that indigenous peoples’ issues need greater attention, that indigenous peoples’ rights as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples should be implemented, that indigenous peoples be given a decisive voice in formulating policies affecting their communities, lands and resources and that there be facilitation of indigenous peoples’ participation in multi-stakeholder dialogues within the intergovernmental processes and in technical cooperation programmes supported by the divisions of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: FAO
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum encourages FAO to support the recognition and protection of Indigenous knowledge and systems related to food production and food generation, which include, inter alia, forestry, shifting cultivation, fisheries, whaling, livestock, pastoralism and hunting-gathering systems.
Area of Work: Food Sovereignty
Addressee: Inter Agency Support Group
Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the work of the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues regarding the implementation of the call to action on the theme “Building an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future with Indigenous peoples”, in an effort to revitalize the system-wide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples. In particular, the Permanent Forum also notes the work being carried out with and by resident coordinators to raise awareness among United Nations country teams. It encourages the Inter-Agency Support Group to continue its work on strengthening the implementation of indigenous peoples’ rights frameworks at the national level and on guaranteeing the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples at the country level.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: European Union
Paragraph Number: 62
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the document of the Commission of the European Communities (COM (2008)), Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: The European Union and the Arctic Region delivered in Brussels on 20 November 2008 and urges the European Union to begin implementing the recommendations relevant to indigenous peoples from this document.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Paragraph Number: 95
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that a meeting additional to the pre-sessional meeting be organized in the fourth quarters of 2012 and 2013, without any budgetary implications, to discuss methods of work.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum urges relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, including FAO, IFAD, ILO, UNEP, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, UN-Women and the World Bank, to recognize and support this form of cultivation.
Area of Work: Culture, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: General Assembly, Member States
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum invites the General Assembly to consider the creation of a distinct United Nations voluntary fund for indigenous youth or the earmarking of existing and future funds to increase and enhance the direct participation of indigenous youth at the United Nations. Furthermore, the Forum encourages every State Member of the United Nations to make multi-year voluntary contributions to such existing and/or future funds.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Indigenous Children and Youth
