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Addressee: UNPFII, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 78
Session: 7 (2008)
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A recommendation for expert group meeting on water to carry out a close review and assessment of water allocation, regulation and access policies that affect the rights and health of indigenous peoples and to explore and establish indicators of water well-being for indigenous nations and the world community.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: UNFCCC
Paragraph Number: 78
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum recommends that the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change sponsor a workshop to discuss the merits and mechanisms for the establishment of a working group on indigenous peoples within the Conference of the Parties process, ensuring the participation of indigenous peoples from developed and undeveloped countries as well as interested member States.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: UN agencies funds and programmes
Paragraph Number: 42
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, in collaboration with indigenous peoples ’ organizations, monitor the high levels of global violence and threats directed at indigenous women human rights defenders. The Forum calls for an immediate halt to the criminalization,
incarceration, intimidation, coercion and assassination of, and death threats to, all indigenous human and environmental rights defenders.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Human Rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 42
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States implement emission reductions to limit the increase in average global temperature to no more than 1.5oC to avoid the increased impact of climate change.
Area of Work: Environment, Climate Change
