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Paragraph Number: 89
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism pay particular attention to the impact of national security laws and anti-terrorism laws on indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: OHCHR, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the recommendation, contained in paragraph 17 of the report on its second session (E/2003/43-E/C.19/2003/22), related to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. The Permanent Forum invites OHCHR, in particular the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, to report on the situation of indigenous children to the Forum at its eleventh session.
Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Colombia, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum thanks the Government of Colombia for its support during the Forum mission to Colombia and requests that the Government, the United Nations country team and the United Nations agencies involved in the mission implement the recommendations contained in the mission report (E/C.19/2011/3) through consultation and full collaboration with the indigenous peoples concerned. The Permanent Forum intends to assess the implementation of the recommendations at its eleventh session.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN system/UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 137
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum requests that the specialized agencies of the United Nations, in accordance with articles 41 and 42 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, review their policies and programmes in order to comply with the provisions contained in the Declaration ensuring respect for the right to self-determination of indigenous peoples and the right to free, prior and informed consent.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: FAO
Paragraph Number: 90
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the results of the 2018 High-level Expert Seminar on Indigenous Food Systems, in particular the creation of an online global hub on indigenous food systems, and would like to recommend that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) continue work on: (a) Indigenous young people towards the creation of a forum on indigenous young people in the coming years; (b) Indigenous food systems, in particular in relation to the links with traditional knowledge, climate change and the respect of indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands, territories and resources; (c) Indigenous women (the global campaign on indigenous women and the leadership and food security schools for indigenous women).
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Human Rights
Addressee: European Commission
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum calls upon the European Commission to establish further collaboration with it on indigenous issues.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Government of Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 86
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Paraguay should propose the negotiation of international agreements for protection of the rights of indigenous peoples with the other States of the Chaco region — the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil — and particularly with the Plurinational State of Bolivia with a view to the latter’s development of additional policies aimed at the freeing of individuals, the recovery of land and the rebuilding of peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 79
Session: 8 (2009)
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Pursuant to article 38 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum reiterates its invitation to States to provide the Permanent Forum with substantive information on the implementation
of the Declaration and an assessment of the effectiveness of the Declaration at the national and local levels.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Kenya
Paragraph Number: 60
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Government of Kenya to implement the recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the rights of Endorois to the ownership of their ancestral lands, to the restitution thereof and to compensation in that connection.
Area of Work: Human rights, lands and resources
Addressee: Colombia
Paragraph Number: 25
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum urges Colombia to promote and guarantee the rights of indigenous peoples in the development of the regulatory framework of the Colombian peace agreement and to ensure that a process of free, prior and informed consent is established for the implementation of the “ethnic chapter” of the agreement with their full and effective participation.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: SRVAW, its causes and consequences; SRIP
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum expresses its appreciation to the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples for their participation at its third session, and recommends that they pay special attention to the factors contributing to violence against indigenous women, especially domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the agencies and bodies of the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund rethink the concept of development, with the full participation of indigenous peoples in development processes, taking into account the rights of indigenous peoples and the practices of their traditional knowledge.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Human Rights
