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Addressee: Member states
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to address the stark inequality between indigenous and non-indigenous people in all aspects of life, which has been heightened as a result of COVID-19, by implementing in full the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in all their legal norms and public policies related to indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Health
Paragraph Number: 72
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum recommends that the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in collaboration with multilateral and regional agencies and indigenous organizations, lead the mainstreaming of indigenous issues and concerns in poverty reduction strategies at the country level. In view of the decreasing support to pastoral and semi-nomadic groups in Africa, the Forum recommends that IFAD initiate programmes in support of these groups and submit its planned work programme to the Forum at its fourth session.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: United Nations Country Teams of Bolivia and Paraguay, Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum notes the mission to Bolivia and Paraguay and thanks the Governments of both countries for their invitations. This mission came about following the Forum’s recommendation regarding the situation of forced labour of Guarani communities at its seventh session. The Permanent Forum welcomes the mission as a good practice and decides to publish the reports of the mission as official documents. The Forum urges United Nations country teams to follow up the recommendations of these reports and suggests to the relevant Governments that they report on the implementation of these recommendations at the ninth session of the Forum in 2010.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States, UN entities
Paragraph Number: 12
Session: 20 (2021)
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The global engagement of indigenous peoples at the international level has led to some positive institutional developments, including the establishment of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples can play an important role in the fight against climate change. Member States and United Nations entities should ensure that any activities related to the use of the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples respect indigenous peoples’ own protocols and consent agreements for managing access to their traditional knowledge. Strengthening and ensuring the full participation of indigenous peoples at all levels is also critical for the design and implementation of climate policies, plans, programmes and projects at the local, national and global levels.
Area of Work: Environment, Culture, Methods of Work
Addressee: UN agencies, Member States
Paragraph Number: 25
Session: 10 (2011)
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In regard to the rights of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum reiterates its long-standing position of encouraging the United Nations, its organs and specialized agencies, as well as all States, to adopt a human rights-based approach. At the international, regional and national level, the human rights of indigenous peoples are always relevant if such rights are at risk of being undermined. Human rights are indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated. They must be respected in any context specifically concerning indigenous peoples, from environment to development, to peace and security, and many other issues.
Area of Work: Human rights, Cooperation, Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States, UN system
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum invites indigenous peoples, States and relevant organizations of the United Nations system to share experiences on education that represent best practices at the primary or community levels, based on indigenous cultures and traditions. The outcome of such discussions should be published and disseminated widely
Area of Work: MDGs, Education
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 14
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum encourages Member States with bilateral development agencies to enact, in accordance with the Declaration, policies that ensure the inclusion of indigenous peoples as partners in the development process, with a meaningful role in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all projects that affect their territories, rights and livelihoods
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 18 (2019)
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With a view to assessing the effectiveness of the implementation of policies on indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum recommends to the United Nations entities that carry out free, prior and informed consent processes to develop a system for comprehensively documenting these processes.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Addressee: UN agencies, funds and programmes
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 5 (2006)
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Owing to the cross-cutting nature of gender equality, it is also critical that gender perspectives be fully integrated into the implementation and monitoring of all the other objectives associated with the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, MDGs
Addressee: SPFII
Paragraph Number: 170
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the invitation extended by the Maskwacis Cree and the Confederacy of Treaty Six Chiefs to the members and the secretariat to attend the United Nations Expert Seminar on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples at the Samson Cree Nation from 25 to 27 September 2006. This is a historic first United Nations expert meeting to be held on indigenous treaty territory.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Donor agencies, UNDG, UN system/UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 61
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the United Nations Development Group guidelines on indigenous peoples’ issues, and encourages United Nations agencies to actively disseminate, promote and implement those guidelines, particularly among their country offices. In that regard, the Forum urges the Development Group to give priority to the promotion, use and implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the most universal, comprehensive and fundamental instrument on indigenous peoples’ rights, and to fully reflect this in the next edition of the Group’s guidelines. The Forum also recommends that donor agencies consider providing financial assistance to implement the guidelines.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: DESA, OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), facilitate a series of online regional meetings in 2023 to discuss the development of standards and redress mechanisms for conservation programmes that affect indigenous peoples’ lands, territories and waters. The dialogue should include the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum, indigenous peoples’ representatives, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other stakeholders. The Permanent Forum would welcome a presentation of the outcomes of such a meeting at its twenty-third session, to be held in 2024.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
