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Addressee: UNDP
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the efforts of UNDP to endorse the political participation of indigenous peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean and its support in the preparation of the report on democracy and indigenous peoples in the region. The Forum recommends to UNDP that it extend this good practice to other regions and follow up regularly.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States and UN System
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States and United Nations agencies recognize indigenous peoples as distinct stakeholders and make a specific separate reference to indigenous peoples, and not simply include them under the terms “marginalized and vulnerable groups”, in both the sustainable development goals and the post-2015 development agenda, including the Small Island Developing States process, and that this recommendation, with the specific recognition of indigenous peoples’ views and priorities for development, should be reflected in the goals and targets to be developed, including appropriate indicators and data disaggregation.
Area of Work: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Methods of Work
Addressee: Member states
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 20 (2021)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that States ensure that the participation of indigenous peoples in subnational and local decision-making bodies is based on equality and non-discrimination and on respecting indigenous peoples’ rights to choose their own representatives in accordance with their own procedures.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Chairs of the Human Rights Bodies
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes the importance of exploring possibilities for strengthening cooperation with the human rights treaty bodies on issues of relevance to its mandate. The Permanent Forum therefore invites the Chairs of the human rights treaty bodies each to designate a representative to participate in the twenty-second session of the Permanent Forum, to be held in 2023.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States, UN agencies, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon all member States and United Nations agencies to respond to the annual questionnaire from the secretariat of the Permanent Forum in order to provide information on reliable practices that lead to the full and effective implementation of the Declaration. Further, the Forum recommends that the secretariat of the Permanent Forum include questions that particularly focus on indigenous children and youth.
Area of Work: Human rights, Methods of Work
Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 18 (2019)
Full Text:
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)
