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Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 84
Session: 10 (2011)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum urges States to increase the provision of funding to indigenous peoples and communities for water and wastewater systems in order to improve the quality of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, as well as address water pollution and degradation in indigenous communities.

Area of Work: Human rights, Environment
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Addressee: CBD

Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 10 (2011)
Full Text:

Affirmation of the status of indigenous peoples as “peoples” is important in fully respecting and protecting their human rights. Consistent with its 2010 report (E/2010/43-E/C.19/2010/15), the Permanent Forum calls upon the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and especially including the Nagoya Protocol, to adopt the terminology “indigenous peoples and local communities” as an accurate reflection of the distinct identities developed by those entities since the adoption of the Convention almost 20 years ago

Area of Work: Environment, Traditional Knowledge