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Addressee: Donor agencies, UN system/UN agencies

Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that donors and United Nations agencies give more support to indigenous peoples in Africa, where appropriate, to promote, recognize, protect and enhance indigenous traditional knowledge.

Area of Work: Environment, Traditional Knowledge
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Addressee: ECOSOC, General Assembly, Member States UN system/UN agencies

Paragraph Number: 23
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum calls for urgent, serious and unprecedented action by the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly, along with all United Nations bodies and agencies, recognizing that climate change is an urgent and immediate threat to human rights, health, sustainable development, food sovereignty, and peace and security, and calls upon all countries to implement the highest, most rigorous and most stringent levels of greenhouse gas reduction.

Area of Work: Environment