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Addressee: IACHR
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 15 (2016)
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Consistent with article 7 of the United Nations Declaration, the Permanent Forum recommends that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urgently establish an independent international commission to investigate the assassination of Berta Cáceres and Nelson Garcia of the Lenca people of Honduras.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 116
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that relevant States recognize indigenous peoples’ right to prior, free and informed consent and provide support mechanisms for involuntarily displaced indigenous peoples to be able to return to their original communities, including appropriate forms of repatriation, compensation and restitution and provision for the sustainable livelihoods of those peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum supports an initiative to declare an International Year of Quinoa, recognizing the importance of quinoa to indigenous people and that it is a natural food with a high nutritional content.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: World Bank
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Forum also notes with concern that the World Bank’s operational policies, including its policy on indigenous peoples, have limited application, covering only investment lending and not other Bank operations. The Forum recommends that the outcome target of the Bank’s process to review and update its safeguards be a set of safeguards and follow-up mechanisms covering all finance instruments and all other Bank operations.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Paragraph Number: 116
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Ad Hoc Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing consider at its next meeting the report of the international indigenous and local community consultation on access and benefit-sharing and the development of an international regime (UNEP/CBD/WG-ABS/5/INF/9).
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum notes that in international law, the right to adequate food and the fundamental right to be free from hunger apply to everyone without discrimination. The Permanent Forum is concerned about the implementation gap between what is legally recognized and the reality. The right to food is frequently denied or violated, often as a result of systematic discrimination or the widespread lack of applicability of indigenous peoples’ rights. The Permanent Forum recommends that States engage in an inclusive and participatory process to ensure food sovereignty and security, in accordance with the principles of free, prior and informed consent, and develop standards and methodologies and cultural indicators to assess and address food sovereignty.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum urges Governments, in addressing economic and social development issues, to make efforts to adopt general strategies that include considerations for the needs and rights of indigenous peoples in the policies, laws and administrative issues that affect them, and they should include participation and consultations with indigenous peoples. Governments should also consider implementing special policies directed to employment creation for indigenous peoples, facilitating access to credit and the creation of small and medium-sized businesses.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States, UN systems, ILO, SPFII, IPOs
Paragraph Number: 116
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum notes that there is a need for capacity-building in national and local government as well indigenous communities in the areas within the Forum’s mandate, and recommends that various parts of the United Nations system, including the International Labour Organization and the secretariat of the Forum, cooperate to provide technical assistance in that regard at the request of Governments and indigenous communities.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: UN system, Member States
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum urges the United Nations system and States to give special priority to implementing previous recommendations made by the Forum, and to take into account the cross-cutting nature of human rights issues.
Area of Work: Human rights, Cooperation
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 116
Session: 4 (2005)
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Foster the training of indigenous women in order to gain leadership skills to become community advocates and defenders for indigenous women's rights to achieve gender equity
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Human rights
Addressee: Special Committee on Decolonization
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum invites the Chairman of the Special Committee to report on the decolonization process within the Pacific region to the Forum at its eighth session in 2009.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN Agencies
Paragraph Number: 116
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that relevant United Nations agencies dealing with indigenous peoples’ issues should take action on the inclusion of indigenous persons with disabilities in all their activities, make their websites accessible to persons with disabilities, promote the increased participation of indigenous persons with disabilities in their annual sessions and consider having expert sessions on indigenous persons with disabilities.
Area of Work: Human rights
