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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum recommends to Member States that the development agenda beyond 2015 adopt a human rights-based approach to development that takes into account issues of equity and sustainability and that incorporates an indigenous holistic concept of development with culture and identity. The Forum also recommends that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples constitute the normative framework of this work.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, MDGs
Addressee: Indigenous peoples, Member states
Paragraph Number: 51
Session: 20 (2021)
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It is important to recognize that indigenous peoples themselves must claim ownership of their languages and direct the revitalization efforts of the languages, while States should support these efforts and facilitate the transmission of the languages by parents and grandparents to the younger generations.
Area of Work: International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032)
