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Addressee: New Zealand
Paragraph Number: 60
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum heard reports from Māori Indigenous Peoples that the Government of New Zealand had departed from the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) and taken measures against the rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the disbandment of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori health authority. The Forum urges the State and Government of New Zealand to uphold the distinct rights of Māori Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human Rights
Paragraph Number: 103
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States in the region enhance the protection of Indigenous Peoples through recognition and autonomy, in line with the Declaration, by revising legal and policy frameworks. Governments should rectify the injustices of the colonial past, taking into consideration Indigenous Peoples and their perspectives, in particular those of Indigenous youth, ensuring the participation of Indigenous Peoples in decision-making.
Area of Work: Autonomy and Self-determination, Human Rights, Participation
Addressee: Bolivia
Paragraph Number: 20
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the proposal by the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia concerning a law on free, prior and informed consent. The Forum calls for this law to be adopted and to reflect the Declaration, ensuring the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples throughout the process and promoting the recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ own free, prior and informed consent protocols.
Area of Work: Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Addressee: African States
Paragraph Number: 74
Session: 23 (2024)
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The lack of recognition of Indigenous Peoples violates their right to self-determination. Their legal recognition should be aligned with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the report of the Working Group of Experts on Indigenous Populations/Communities of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.1 The Permanent Forum invites African Governments to join groups of friends of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Autonomy and Self-determination
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 135
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States strengthen and implement legal and institutional frameworks that recognize and protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples to their lands, territories and resources and ensure their participation in decision-making processes. Such frameworks should adhere to the Declaration and Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization, ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent when development, environment, biodiversity and climate change programmes and projects are conducted on their lands and territories.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Climate Change, Economic and Social Development, Participation
Addressee: Finance in Common
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum thanks Finance in Common, a global network of public development banks, for its invitation to the fourth Finance in Common Summit. The Forum encourages the continuation of collaborative efforts to enhance support for the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources, Human Rights
Addressee: Russia
Paragraph Number: 102
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum heard that industrial companies and authorities in the Russian Federation promoted certain “authorized bodies of Indigenous Peoples”, which in reality were run by State representatives claiming that only these organizations had the right to negotiate on behalf of Indigenous Peoples. In this regard, the Forum proposes that the Government of the Russian Federation revise the federal law on guarantees of the rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation.
Area of Work: Human Rights
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Pan American Health Organization and all regional United Nations health entities ensure that their mandates address the rights of Indigenous Peoples, separate from minority, diversity and intercultural approaches, in compliance with the Declaration and the WHO resolution on Indigenous health.
Area of Work: Health, Human Rights
Addressee: Forest Tenure Funders Group
Paragraph Number: 129
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Forum regrets that Indigenous Peoples living in environmental ecosystems and latitudes other than tropical and subtropical forests are ineligible for funding, including the $1.7 billion pledge made at the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Forum advises the Forest Tenure Funders Group to promote a dialogue with United Nations mechanisms on the rights of Indigenous Peoples when defining the ongoing and future process of funding for Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Funding and Resources, Cooperation
Addressee: USA; Canada
Paragraph Number: 35
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates that the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline jeopardizes the Great Lakes and poses a real and credible threat to the human rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States. The Forum reiterates its call for Canada and the United States to decommission Line 5.
Area of Work: Human Rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 83
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum urges actions by States in addressing the racism suffered by Inuit peoples, particularly those residing outside Inuit Nunaat. The Forum is concerned about the high incidence of child removals by child welfare systems legitimized by psychometric tests adapted to non-Inuit peoples.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: United States
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the recommendation it made to the United States at its twenty-second session to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier.
Area of Work: Human Rights
