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Paragraph Number: 69
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that Member States, the intergovernmental system, international financial institutions and the private sector respect and adhere to the principle of free, prior and informed consent in all matters affecting indigenous peoples
Area of Work: Human Rights
Addressee: ILO, Member States
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation to ILO to accommodate and guarantee the direct participation of indigenous peoples’ organizations in ILO procedures, in particular those relating to compliance with the ILO Convention concerning the Protection and Integration of Indigenous and Other Tribal and Semi-Tribal Populations in Independent Countries (Convention No. 107) and the ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (Convention No. 169) and their corresponding supervisory mechanisms. The Forum reiterates its call upon Member States to accede to the ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (Convention No. 169).
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: State institutions
Paragraph Number: 19
Session: 20 (2021)
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The lack of effective recognition of the indigenous justice systems by State institutions, as well as the ongoing discrimination against them in the State justice system and inadequate access to redress and reparation, are among the key challenges faced by indigenous peoples around the world. Strengthened support for indigenous justice systems is key to promoting human rights, the rule of law, the achievement of justice for all and the promotion of effective, accountable and inclusive institutions, as set out in Goal 16.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Special Committee on Decolonization
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum invites the Chairman of the Special Committee to report on the decolonization process within the Pacific region to the Forum at its eighth session in 2009.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: EMRIP and HRC
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum encourages the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Human Rights Council to continue the process of addressing rights related to treaties and agreements between indigenous peoples and the United States and Canada, including through the consideration and implementation of the recommendations resulting from the first two United Nations treaty seminars, held in 2003 and 2006, and by taking steps to hold a third seminar, as mandated by the Economic and Social Council, and urges the Expert Mechanism to advance the work on treaties.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States, Government of Norway
Paragraph Number: 118
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has analysed and discussed indigenous fishing rights in the seas on the basis of a report submitted by the Special Rapporteurs. As a result of those discussions, the Forum considers the protection of the material basis of the culture of indigenous peoples to be a part of international law that should be applied also to fishing rights in the seas, and recommends that States in which indigenous peoples live in coastal areas recognize indigenous peoples’ right to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law. In that context, the Forum notes the ongoing consultations between the Government of Norway and the Sami Parliament and recommends that the Government recognize the right of the coastal Sami to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Human Rights Council
Paragraph Number: 87
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Human Rights Council consider:(a)The inclusion of an agenda item addressing the human rights of indigenous peoples in the ongoing work of the Council;(b) Including the human rights of indigenous peoples as part of its universal periodic review;(c)The inclusion of indigenous expertise in the new general expert advisory body being established by the Human Rights Council;(d)The interventions submitted by an expert member of the Permanent Forum to the Human Rights Council and the working groups on the ongoing reforms of the human rights mechanisms;(e) Maintaining and strengthening its expertise on indigenous peoples’ human rights issues.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 11
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum urges Member States, in their regular reporting to the United Nations human rights treaty bodies and, in particular, to the Human Rights Council through the universal periodic review, to include the actions taken to implement the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: OHCHR, UNICEF, UN Agencies and Member States
Paragraph Number: 42
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum acknowledges the entry into force on 14 April 2014 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure. In this regard, it recommends that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, other United Nations agencies and States support the dissemination of the guide to this Optional Protocol, including its translation into different languages and the building of capacity among indigenous organizations and institutions to make effective use of the Optional Protocol in promoting and protecting the rights of indigenous children and youth.
Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 151
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States include representatives of indigenous peoples in the national consultation process for the preparation of national reports to be submitted to the Human Rights Council for universal periodic review.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Secretary-General, OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 85
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum appreciates the preparation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of the information note on the ways in which indigenous issues have been addressed in Charter-based mechanisms and treaty bodies. The Forum recommends that the Secretary-General prepare, in several stages, an analytical study on the subject. In the initial stage, the Forum recommends the Secretary-General prepare a study on the ways in which indigenous issues have been addressed in the consideration of reports of States parties submitted under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum calls on the chairs of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals to address inequalities through the sustainable development goals, with a special focus on indigenous peoples, in order to uphold human rights for all, eliminate discrimination, reduce inequalities and ensure that no one is left behind.
Area of Work: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Human Rights
