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Addressee: Member States, WIPO
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 11 (2012)
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Consistent with article 18 of the Declaration, the Permanent Forum requests Member States to explore and establish modalities to ensure the equal, full and direct participation of indigenous peoples in all negotiations of the Intergovernmental Committee.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: Member States, Russian Federation, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Transcaucasia
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 11 (2012)
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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: WIPO
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon WIPO to strengthen its efforts to reach out to indigenous peoples and to continue to provide practical assistance and capacity-strengthening for and in cooperation with indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Culture, Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: Member States, WIPO
Paragraph Number: 51
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon States to organize regional and national consultations to enable indigenous peoples to prepare for and participate effectively in sessions of the Intergovernmental Committee.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: GEF
Paragraph Number: 16
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum applauds the good work of the nomadic herders project on enhancing the resilience of pastoral ecosystems and livelihoods, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/GRID-Arendal and the Association of World Reindeer Herders. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Global Environment Facility Council approve the project as a good example of a transboundary project by and for indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Environment, Culture
Addressee: WIPO, Member States
Paragraph Number: 53
Session: 11 (2012)
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As highlighted in article 31 of the Declaration, the Permanent Forum requests that both WIPO and States take effective measures and establish mechanisms to recognize the right of indigenous peoples to protect their intellectual property, including their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games, and visual and performing arts.
Area of Work: Culture, Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: WIPO
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum requests that WIPO commission a technical review, to be conducted by an indigenous expert, focusing on the draft texts concerning traditional knowledge, genetic resources and traditional cultural expressions, and to provide comments thereon to the Intergovernmental Committee through the Forum. The review should be undertaken within the framework of indigenous human rights.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: Member States, UNEP
Paragraph Number: 117
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon Member States to ensure that the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is aligned with the rights affirmed in the Declaration, and invites UNEP to organize a dialogue to discuss the Rio+20 outcome, its implications for indigenous peoples and its implementation.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: WIPO
Paragraph Number: 47
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum demands that WIPO recognize and respect the applicability and relevance of the Declaration as a significant international human rights instrument that must inform the Intergovernmental Committee process and the overall work of WIPO. The minimum standards reflected in the Declaration must either be exceeded or directly incorporated into any and all WIPO instruments that directly or indirectly impact the human rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge, Human Rights
Addressee: WIPO
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the decision of the Intergovernmental Committee to organize, in cooperation with the Forum, expert preparatory meetings on the Intergovernmental Committee process for indigenous peoples representing the seven geopolitical regions recognized by the Forum.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: UN agencies, Member States
Paragraph Number: 15
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the relevant United Nations agencies and Member States with reindeer herding peoples support training and education programmes for indigenous reindeer herding youth and communities in order to secure the future sustainability and resilience of the Arctic and sub-Arctic indigenous pastoral reindeer herding societies and cultures in the face of climate change, land-use change and globalization.
Area of Work: Education, Culture, Environment
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 45
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum commends WIPO for the establishment of the Voluntary Fund for Accredited and Indigenous Local Communities, and urges Member States and public and private entities to contribute to the Fund to ensure its operation beyond the twenty-second session of the Intergovernmental Committee in accordance with States’ commitment to article 41 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge, Cooperation
