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Addressee: DPKO
Paragraph Number: 87
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Secretariat collaborate with indigenous peoples’ organizations in investigating violations of indigenous peoples’ human rights committed by United Nations peacekeepers.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States, Donor Agencies
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Governments, bilateral and multilateral donor and development agencies and other development partners responsible for or assisting in the implementation of sectoral strategies or other programmes affecting lands owned, occupied or otherwise used by indigenous peoples review the consistency of such strategies and programmes with internationally recognized standards for the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and the impact of such strategies and programmes on indigenous communities and report to the Permanent Forum at its seventh session in 2008 on the results of these reviews and on any strategies adopted to address the challenges they might identify.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: IUCN, CBD
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Union for Conservation of Nature actively engage with indigenous organizations, relevant United Nations entities, non-governmental organizations and other actors to develop a set of actions and commitments in relation to conservation and human rights in the context of the post-2020 biodiversity framework and the next World Conservation Congress.
Area of Work: Environment, Conservation
Addressee: Government of Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 87
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that any future agreements with the Plurinational State of Bolivia should provide, in particular, for means of protecting the territory of the Ayoreo people living in voluntary isolation
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteurs on indigenous peoples and corporations, Carlos Mamani Condori, Elisa Canqui Mollo and Pavel Sulyandziga, for one year, and requests them to submit a written report to the Forum at its ninth session, in 2010.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 87
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum invites the newly established Facilitative Working Group of the local communities and indigenous peoples platform to collaborate closely with bodies outside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on matters relating to climate change and indigenous peoples, in accordance with its mandate (Conference of the Parties decision 2/CP.24, para. 20).
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Environment
Addressee: Member States, Transnational corporations
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum calls on States to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and principles of sustainability and to call on transnational corporations to respect those standards. This applies particularly to highly industrialized States and the transnational corporations that engage in development activities in those States.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 22 (2023)
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Urgent transformational actions by States and other development actors for Indigenous Peoples must be based on a human rights framework enabling the identification of the root causes of inequality and providing mechanisms to tackle systemic discrimination and racism and must contribute to reforming discriminatory laws and policies and strengthening the accountability of States, including ensuring democratic space for all.
Area of Work: Human Rights
Addressee: MINUSMA, African Union, European Union
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, the African Union and the European Union establish special mechanisms for the protection of indigenous peoples in areas of conflict and high insecurity in the countries of the Sahel and Sahara region, in particular Tuaregs in Mali and Libya.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Human Rights Council
Paragraph Number: 87
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Human Rights Council consider:(a)The inclusion of an agenda item addressing the human rights of indigenous peoples in the ongoing work of the Council;(b) Including the human rights of indigenous peoples as part of its universal periodic review;(c)The inclusion of indigenous expertise in the new general expert advisory body being established by the Human Rights Council;(d)The interventions submitted by an expert member of the Permanent Forum to the Human Rights Council and the working groups on the ongoing reforms of the human rights mechanisms;(e) Maintaining and strengthening its expertise on indigenous peoples’ human rights issues.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: IFAD
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 14 (2015)
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The Permanent Forum acknowledges IFAD for the implementation of its policy on indigenous peoples and for selecting “Indigenous peoples’ food systems and sustainable livelihoods” as the theme of the second global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD. The Forum expects that IFAD will continue to strengthen its engagement with indigenous peoples in its future work by ensuring engagement at the country level through targeted programmes, capacity-building for indigenous peoples and project staff and the development of specific indicators on the well-being of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Education, Environment
Addressee: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum recalls its invitation to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to initiate a general comment on the collective rights of indigenous peoples to lands, territories and natural resources. The Forum welcomes the decision of the Committee to draft a general comment on land and economic, social and cultural rights. However, the Forum expresses its concern about the limited participation of indigenous peoples in the drafting of the general comment and invites the Committee to consider facilitating the participation of indigenous peoples. The Forum also invites the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples to provide support in this regard.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
