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Addressee: General Assembly
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the normative framework for the high-level plenary meeting/World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to be convened during the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly. The provisions of resolution 66/296 must be given the widest and most generous interpretation possible in order to ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 15 (2016)
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Consistent with articles 7 and 30 of the United Nations Declaration, States should take measures for settlement, protection and security in the post-conflict period, and for the construction of durable and lasting peace, promoting the full and effective inclusion of indigenous peoples, including indigenous women, in any initiative for peace and reconciliation.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: CEDAW
Paragraph Number: 53
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its invitation to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to adopt a general recommendation on indigenous women by 2020, in accordance with the Declaration and other international instruments. The Forum recommends that the general recommendation on indigenous women consider issues related to the individual and collective rights to equality, non-discrimination and self-determination; social and economic rights, including the rights to decent work and to land, territory and resources; the right to water and food; cultural rights; civil and political rights; and the right to live free of any form of violence.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Methods of Work
Addressee: UN system/UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 53
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum urges United Nations bodies and specialized agencies to implement the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
