Welcome to the United Nations
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8
Paragraph Number: 109
Session: 3 (2004)
Full Text:
The Forum, further recognizing the long-term benefits for indigenous peoples of training and education opportunities within the United Nations system, such as the establishment of an indigenous fellowship network by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, requests the Office to invite Permanent Forum Members and the secretariat of the Forum to the meeting of the indigenous fellowship network, scheduled to be held August 2004 in Barcelona.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 18 (2019)
Full Text:
With a view to assessing the effectiveness of the implementation of policies on indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum recommends to the United Nations entities that carry out free, prior and informed consent processes to develop a system for comprehensively documenting these processes.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Paragraph Number: 109
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that urban indigenous issues be given important consideration on the agenda of the fourth session of the World Urban Forum, and notes the organization by UN-Habitat of a round-table event on this theme. The Forum urges States, United Nations agencies and indigenous peoples’ organizations to cooperate with UN-Habitat in the lead up to this and other events at the fourth session, including through input and participation.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States, Russian Federation, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Transcaucasia
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 11 (2012)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum urges the Governments of Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia regions to implement international standards and norms on the rights of indigenous peoples and ensure their rights to lands, territories and resources, in particular article 20 of the Declaration. This includes recognizing reindeer herders’ use and management of grazing land and use of necessary biological resources by hunters, fishers and foragers.
Area of Work: Human rights, Environment
Addressee: PFII, SPFII and CBD
Paragraph Number: 109
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum decides to send a member of the Forum to participate in the Conference to present the outcome of its ninth session on the question of development with culture and identity.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 109
Session: 21 (2022)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum invites Member States to organize intersessional meetings to discuss cooperation on pertinent topics with the Permanent Forum.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: IPBES
Paragraph Number: 109
Session: 17 (2018)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum welcomes the approval of the approach to recognizing and working with indigenous and local knowledge adopted at the fifth plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, in 2017, and the establishment of a participatory mechanism for indigenous peoples and local communities in the work of the Platform. The Forum urges the identification of procedures and methodologies for effective implementation of the approach and the participatory mechanism, in partnership with indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Participation, Methods of Work
Addressee: Chairs of the Human Rights Bodies
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 21 (2022)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recognizes the importance of exploring possibilities for strengthening cooperation with the human rights treaty bodies on issues of relevance to its mandate. The Permanent Forum therefore invites the Chairs of the human rights treaty bodies each to designate a representative to participate in the twenty-second session of the Permanent Forum, to be held in 2023.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
