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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: Indigenous elders
Paragraph Number: 139
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes the role of indigenous elders in advancing the rights of indigenous peoples at all levels. The Forum invites indigenous elders from all regions to establish an advisory council of elders to assist the Forum and participating delegations, as requested.
Area of Work: Institutional Participatory Mechanisms
Paragraph Number: 131
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum expresses concern that indigenous peoples’ participation is insufficient and traditional knowledge not respected in the intergovernmental conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. The Forum invites the conference organizers to ensure the participation of indigenous peoples through the establishment of an indigenous peoples’ advisory committee, in its third session, in August 2019, and fourth session, in the first half of 2020.
Area of Work: Institutional Participatory Mechanisms
Addressee: WB
Paragraph Number: 63
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum acknowledges the establishment by the World Bank of an inclusive forum for indigenous peoples to strengthen the Bank’s engagement with indigenous peoples, which should assist the Bank in implementing a human rights-based approach to development. The Forum also calls upon the Bank, in collaboration with indigenous peoples, to develop detailed guidance on the proper implementation, review and monitoring of processes on free, prior and informed consent and to ensure that its projects protect and enhance customary land tenure systems in the implementation of Environmental and Social Standard 7 and the Environmental and Social Framework approved by the World Bank in 2016.
Area of Work: Institutional Participatory Mechanisms
Addressee: UN resident coordinators and country teams
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 18 (2019)
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Building on the recommendation contained in paragraph 16 of its report on its sixteenth session (E/2017/43-E/C.19/2017/11), the Permanent Forum strongly encourages United Nations resident coordinators and country teams to ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, including indigenous women and young people, in the preparation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework and country programme action plans.
Area of Work: Institutional Participatory Mechanisms
Addressee: Member States, UN system, Indigenous peoples
Paragraph Number: 14
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum urges Member States to include indigenous peoples’ rights in the outcomes of the 2019 Climate Summit called for by the Secretary- General, which will be held on 23 September 2019. The Forum also recommends that States, the United Nations system, indigenous peoples’ organizations and other partners secure funding to ensure the adequate participation of indigenous peoples at the Summit and at the preparatory meetings.
Area of Work: Human rights, Environment, Funding and resources
Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 130
Session: 18 (2019)
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Indigenous peoples in the Pacific rely on marine resources and fisheries for both livelihoods and as a food source. The Permanent Forum encourages United Nations entities to incorporate traditional knowledge into all their work in the region.
Area of Work: Environment, Traditional Knowledge
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum urges the member organizations of the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights to commission independent evaluations of the impact of their organizations’ work on indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Environment, Human Rights
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the specialist group on indigenous peoples, customary and environmental law and human rights within the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy of the International Union for Conservation of Nature host a series of regional meetings to discuss the development of standards for the conservation of indigenous peoples’ lands and waters by 2020, together with indigenous peoples, NGOs and other stakeholders, in consultation with the Forum, United Nations special rapporteurs and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Environment, Human Rights
Addressee: Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum encourages the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to recognize the importance of and emphasize support for indigenous agricultural systems, including forestry, shifting cultivation, fisheries, livestock, pastoralism and hunting-gathering systems, and their associated biodiversity, foods, knowledge systems and cultures. It encourages FAO to promote the responsible use of culturally appropriate agricultural inputs and technology so as to protect the traditional livelihoods of indigenous peoples
Area of Work: Environment, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Paragraph Number: 34
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that FAO and the Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development Initiative work further on the development of cultural indicators for identifying priorities and criteria and methodologies for the right to food and food security, with the participation of indigenous peoples, taking into account the protection and restoration of indigenous peoples' traditional food systems and their agrobiodiversity and associated traditional knowledge and livelihoods. The threats to sustaining such systems, such as monoculture cash crop production, mineral extraction, environmental contamination and genetically modified seeds and technology, should be addressed.
Area of Work: Environment, Culture
Addressee: UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 138
Session: 4 (2005)
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With a view to establishing a partnership with the United Nations Forum on Forests to work in the area of traditional forest-related knowledge and social and cultural aspects of forests pertaining to indigenous peoples, the Forum appoints Pavel Sulyandziga, member of the Forum, as Special Rapporteur to work with the United Nations Forum on Forests, without financial implications, and to report on that subject to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at its fifth session
Area of Work: Environment, Cooperation
