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Addressee: Australia, Colombia
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes and commends Australia and Colombia for changing their positions by endorsing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and calls upon the remaining States that are opposed to it, as well as those abstaining, to reverse their positions and endorse the Declaration so as to achieve full consensus.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN system
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the full, effective and direct representation and participation of indigenous peoples, including their indigenous governments, councils, parliaments and other political institutions, should be ensured at all United Nations forums and multilateral and bilateral negotiations, and in the drafting processes of the corresponding emerging instruments, for example, those under discussion at the World Bank, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Such instruments must be harmonized with the Declaration, which is regarded as a reflection of the minimum human rights standards necessary for the promotion and protection of indigenous peoples, nations and communities. Such instruments should be consistent with or exceed those minimum standards.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Human Rights
Addressee: IACHR
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 15 (2016)
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Consistent with article 7 of the United Nations Declaration, the Permanent Forum recommends that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urgently establish an independent international commission to investigate the assassination of Berta Cáceres and Nelson Garcia of the Lenca people of Honduras.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Finland, Norway
Paragraph Number: 24
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the Deatnu (Tana/Teno) river fishing agreement between the Governments of Finland and Norway that was adopted by their respective Parliaments in March 2017. The Sami Parliaments of Finland and Norway have informed the Forum that the agreement was adopted without the free, prior and informed consent of the Sami. The Forum requests the Governments of Finland and Norway to renegotiate the agreement with the full and effective participation of Sami rights holders.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Government of Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 78
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Republic of Paraguay to take urgent action to implement the resolutions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning communities that are experiencing major humanitarian crises.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum urges all Member States and United Nations agencies and country teams to initiate indigenous human rights training and education programmes in their institutions and activities, in particular the existing and emerging international jurisprudence on the human rights and standards contained in the Declaration and their application and relevance at the national and local levels.
Area of Work: Cooperation, Human Rights
Addressee: Nepal
Paragraph Number: 86
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Constitution of Nepal has provisions for special, protected and autonomous regions for Indigenous Peoples. The Permanent Forum welcomes further progress towards realizing the provisions of the Constitution, including by considering the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to Nepal in 2018 on respect for Indigenous Peoples’ rights to their traditional lands and resources and to self-determination.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Human rights
Addressee: Government of Kenya
Paragraph Number: 62
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum is concerned that the ruling of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Ogiek community in the Mau forest in Kenya has still not been implemented and calls on the Government of Kenya to urgently implement a sustainable system of equitable land tenure to prevent any further forced evictions; publish without delay the recommendations of the task force to advise the Government on the implementation of the decision of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in respect of the rights of the Ogiek community of Mau; enhance the participation of indigenous communities in the sustainable management of forests; and comply with the decision of the Court.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States, UN System, OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 62
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that Member States, United Nations bodies and mechanisms, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other parts of the United Nations system strengthen the machinery to address the urgent, gross and ongoing human rights violations, militarization of indigenous lands and systemic violence committed by Member States against indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum calls on the Office of the Attorney General and the district prosecutors’ offices in the Departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz and Tarija to conduct criminal investigations into the events described by the Plurinational State of Bolivia in its report to this session of the Forum and in the subsequent report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Area of Work: Human rights
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: FAO, IFAD
Paragraph Number: 64
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that FAO and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) provide special attention and support to food sovereignty and security concerns of indigenous peoples through thematic studies, the adoption of participatory methodologies, and technical and financial assistance.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
