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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 6
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States support, financially and in every other way, Indigenous Peoples’ development of their own strategies in revitalizing, strengthening and developing their languages parallel to other efforts under the Global Action Plan.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032)
Addressee: FAO
Paragraph Number: 6
Session: 10 (2011)
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6. The Permanent Forum congratulates the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the adoption of its policy on indigenous and tribal peoples and requests that FAO take measures towards the implementation of the policy at all levels, especially at the country level. Such measures include improving the capacity of FAO staff to work effectively with indigenous peoples and their organizations and establishing a mechanism for partnership. Further, the Permanent Forum requests that FAO involve it in the development of voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests. In addition, the Forum requests participation in the Committee on World Food Security and membership in the Committee’s advisory group.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Environment
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 128
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum also calls upon Member States to adopt effective measures to create a sustainable language environment by using information technologies and educational systems and by documenting and monitoring indigenous/native languages and using these languages in public spheres.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, Education
