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Addressee: World Bank

Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum calls on the World Bank to activate the 2005 Extractive Industries Review in order to address the impact and legacy of extractive industries on indigenous lands, territories and resources.

Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
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Addressee: FAO, UN system/UN Agencies

Paragraph Number: 69
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum encourages FAO and other relevant agencies to favour and promote in member countries the acknowledgement and improvement of land tenure legal frameworks to recognize indigenous peoples’ land rights. The Forum recommends that FAO and other relevant United Nations agencies support activities for participatory delimitation and titling where the legal framework recognizes indigenous land rights. FAO should pay special attention to indigenous peoples’ customary laws regarding land.

Area of Work: Economic and Social Development