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Addressee: WHO
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that WHO create and convene regional round tables to address the issue of indigenous peoples and the pandemic in order to ensure that the indigenous peoples of the globe are uniquely considered in mitigation efforts. Such round tables would also offer a timely opportunity to coordinate actions for responding to the impact of the pandemic on indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Health
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum requests Governments to prepare reports on their experience and case studies as to how they are addressing indigenous people’s health and the Millennium Development Goals, and to submit their reports to the Forum at its fourth session.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: UNIFEM, UNFPA, African States, IOM, UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, UN agencies, WHO and World Bank.
Paragraph Number: 68
Session: 6 (2007)
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Considering the bloody wars and grave conflicts that have afflicted a range of States in Africa during the last decade, the Permanent Forum recommends that United Nations agencies (IOM, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNICEF, UNFPA, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), UNDP and WHO) and African States urgently convene a general meeting on health in order to evaluate the negative effects of these conflicts on the health of indigenous peoples and to find appropriate solutions to address the issue.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: WHO
Paragraph Number: 68
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:
The Forum urges WHO, in implementing the outlined global strategy on health of marginalized ethnic populations, to gather data and extend programme services to indigenous peoples based on criteria relating to ethnicity, cultural or tribal affiliation and language.
Area of Work: Health
