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Addressee: IFAD
Paragraph Number: 72
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the sixth call for proposals of the Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility of IFAD, which is focused on advancing indigenous peoples’ biodiversity conservation and sustainable management for adaptation and resilience to climate change. The Permanent Forum urges IFAD to facilitate direct access to climate financing to indigenous peoples’ communities and organizations through the Facility and the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme, and encourages Governments and donors to support those initiatives.
Area of Work: Environment, Climate Change, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 64
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the participation, at its seventeenth session, of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination and invites the Working Group to conduct a study on private militaries and security companies in extractive industries and agribusiness and their impact on the human and collective rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Extractive Industries, Human Rights
Paragraph Number: 64
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Mr. Carsten Smith and Mr. Michael Dodson, members of the Permanent Forum, as special rapporteurs to undertake a study about indigenous fishing rights in the seas.
Area of Work: Environment
