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Addressee: WIPO
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the decision of the Intergovernmental Committee to organize, in cooperation with the Forum, expert preparatory meetings on the Intergovernmental Committee process for indigenous peoples representing the seven geopolitical regions recognized by the Forum.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that all States that have introduced changes to existing indigenous land management regimes invite the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people to undertake a study of those regimes and assess them against the principles contained in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
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
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum calls on the Office of the Attorney General and the district prosecutors’ offices in the Departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz and Tarija to conduct criminal investigations into the events described by the Plurinational State of Bolivia in its report to this session of the Forum and in the subsequent report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States, Canada, New Zealand
Paragraph Number: 43
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the progress made towards developing plans to realize the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and New Zealand. The Permanent Forum invites Canada and New Zealand to present their final plans on constructive cooperation at the twenty-second session of the Permanent Forum, to be held in 2023.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 90
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its concern about information brought to its attention on continuing violations of human rights of indigenous peoples in various parts of the world, and calls upon all States to fully implement their obligations under the international human rights and humanitarian instruments. The Forum reiterates its call on States to recognize the rights of indigenous peoples constitutionally and legally, to strengthen their institutions for the promotion and protection of the human rights of indigenous peoples and to enhance awareness-raising and capacity-building efforts for government officials.
Area of Work: Human rights
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: UNDP
Paragraph Number: 054 (Session 9 Appendix)
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum urges UNDP to further strengthen the right to self-determination of indigenous peoples by choosing indigenous peoples’ organizations as their implementing partners and responsible parties in their projects involving indigenous peoples, especially those with established track records in project implementation. As a corollary to the foregoing, government agencies created to promote and protect the rights and interests of indigenous peoples should be preferred as implementing partners in UNDP programming on indigenous peoples’ issues so that they can effectively perform their mandate
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 34
Session: 11 (2012)
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Mindful of the systemic discrimination and racism experienced by indigenous peoples in the law enforcement, judicial and correctional institutions of States across the globe, the Permanent Forum urges States that have ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination to comprehensively review the civil rights of indigenous peoples, in particular those of indigenous women and children who are victims of sexual violence, in order to ensure that they have fair, non-discriminatory access to justice.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 43
Session: 10 (2011)
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Since the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, some Governments have taken measures to incorporate into their national or domestic legislation, recognition of and respect for the human rights of indigenous peoples. However, in most regions of the world, implementation of the Declaration remains a big challenge. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues welcomes the reports of States and United Nations agencies on respective initiatives to implement the Declaration, but draws attention to the serious implementation gaps.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Nicaragua
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the intent of Nicaragua in drafting legislation on territorial regulation of Indigenous territories. The Permanent Forum urges Nicaragua to establish dialogue with the legitimate Indigenous authorities to initiate and conclude drafting of the legislation as soon as possible, in order to prevent repetition of the recent gross human rights violations against the Mayangna Sauni and Wilu communities, allegedly committed by armed settlers. It further urges Nicaragua to ensure that perpetrators are held to account through the justice system for the murders committed and for the destruction of property. Impunity is not an option.
Area of Work: Human rights, Conflict Prevention and Peace
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 30
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum urges States, with the effective participation of indigenous peoples, to address the concomitant loss of community citizenship and human rights when indigenous peoples are forced to migrate or are displaced by violent conflicts, with a particular emphasis on indigenous women.
Area of Work: Human rights
