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Paragraph Number: 24
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity of two additional indicators for traditional knowledge: (a) status and trends in land use change and land tenure in the traditional territories of indigenous and local communities, and (b) status and trends in the practice of traditional occupations, to complement the adopted indicator on status and trends in traditional languages. The Forum urges the secretariat of the Convention and agencies working on these issues, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), ILO, FAO, IFAD and the International Land Coalition, to collaborate with a view to fully operationalizing those indicators.
Area of Work: Environment, Traditional Knowledge, Cooperation
Addressee: Member States, UN Systems/UN Agencies
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the following reports: (a)“Cultural indicators for food security, food sovereignty and sustainable development”, from the second Global Consultation on the Right to Food, Food Security and Food Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples, held in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, from 7 to 9 September 2006;(b) The Latin America and the Caribbean regional meeting on indicators, held in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua in September 2006;(c)Meeting on indigenous peoples and indicators of well-being; Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, Ottawa, 22 and 23 March 2006; (d)Asia Regional Workshop on Indicators Relevant for Indigenous Peoples, Convention on Biological Diversity and Millennium Development Goals, Mindoro Oriental, Philippines, November 2006;(e)African Regional Expert Workshop on Indicators of Well-being and Indigenous Peoples, Nairobi, November 2006.--The Permanent Forum further recommends that United Nations agencies, Member States and indigenous peoples utilize these indicators and support further efforts to develop them and to test some of these indicators in some countries.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum applauds the historic decision of the United Nations Human Rights Council in recognizing the right to water as a human right, as well as its decision to initiate a study on the scope and content of the relevant human rights obligations related to equitable access to safe drinking water and sanitation under international human rights instruments, to be submitted prior to the sixth session of the Council. The Permanent Forum also calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present to the seventh session of the Permanent Forum the results of her study on the impact on the rights of indigenous peoples in terms of contamination, diversion, appropriation and privatization of water, which is sacred to indigenous peoples and is central to all life.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 24
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum urges States responsible for major sources of pollution and emissions of greenhouse gases to be accountable by enforcing and upholding stricter global pollution regulations that will apply to polluting parties.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: SCBD
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends the establishment of an international ethical code on bio-prospecting in order to avoid bio-piracy and ensure the respect for indigenous cultural and intellectual heritage. Under the framework of the Convention, a mechanism should be established for the repatriation and devolution of genetic materials collections to indigenous peoples. The Forum recommends to the Convention secretariat that the global taxonomy initiative incorporate an ethical principles and social framework for the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands, traditional knowledge and resources before its implementation.
Area of Work: Environment
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that United Nations bodies, in particular the Convention on Biological Diversity, in coordination with the World Bank, UNDP, FAO and IFAD, and UNEP, organize a workshop on protecting sacred places and ceremonial sites of indigenous peoples with a view to identifying protective mechanisms and instituting a legal framework that make cultural, environmental and social impact assessments studies mandatory and ensure the environmental accountability of economic, social and environmental projects that are proposed to be conducted on sacred sites and on lands, territories and waters traditionally occupied or used by indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Environment
Paragraph Number: 24
Session: 4 (2005)
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States, United Nations agencies, funds and programs should mobilize support for indigenous peoples who are extremely vulnerable to natural disasters.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Environment
