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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 5 (2006)
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States are urged to allocate budgets in order to implement quality services to reduce maternal mortality and ensure indigenous women’s access to reproductive health services.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: UNDP, UNFPA, WHO
Paragraph Number: 7
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other relevant organizations adopt targeted policies, programmes, projects and budgets designed to address the staggering prevalence of diabetes among indigenous peoples and put in place culturally appropriate health services, health education and awareness-raising initiatives to treat diabetes and prevent its rapid growth. Particular attention should be given to pregnant women, whose reproductive health is closely linked to the future risk of their children developing diabetes.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: UN agencies, Member States
Paragraph Number: 44
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, included indigenous women among those who had encountered particular barriers to full equality and advancement, both as women and as members of their communities. The review and appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action acknowledged that indigenous women continued to face many obstacles and challenges, which included multiple forms of discrimination based on gender, race and ethnicity, as well as the impact of globalization and environmental degradation.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States , UN System, donor agencies
Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 5 (2006)
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Governments, the United Nations system and donor agencies are urged to support the formation of an international network of traditional healers who work with HIV/AIDS patients and organize expert meetings between traditional and medical practitioners on HIV/AIDS and traditional medicine.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: UN System, Member States
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 5 (2006)
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United Nations organizations and States should pay special attention to the specific situation and needs of elderly indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: UN system, UNIFEM, UNICEF and Member States
Paragraph Number: 47
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that appropriate United Nations organizations, including the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), as well as States, take immediate action to review and monitor the situation of indigenous women and provide comprehensive reports on violence against indigenous women and girls, particularly sexual violence and violence in the context of armed conflict. Indigenous women must be full participants in this process.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the recommendations on HIV/AIDS made at its second, third and fourth sessions regarding data disaggregation and culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS programmes, and urges Governments, the United Nations system and intergovernmental organizations to ensure the full and effective participation, and free, prior and informed consent, of indigenous peoples in all programmes related to the prevention and treatments of HIV/AIDS in indigenous communities.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to intensify efforts at the national level to implement Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 on women, peace and security, including through national action plans that pay special attention to indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum, reaffirming the recommendations on health made at its first, second and third sessions, further recommends that all relevant United Nations entities, especially WHO, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and UNFPA, as well as regional health organizations and Governments, fully incorporate a cultural perspective into health policies, programmes and reproductive health services aimed at providing indigenous women with quality health care, including emergency obstetric care, voluntary family planning and skilled attendance at birth. In the latter context, the roles of traditional midwives should be re-evaluated and expanded so that they may assist indigenous women during their reproductive health processes and act as cultural brokers between health systems and the indigenous communities’ values and world views
Area of Work: Health, Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: UNAIDS, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 18
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to engage with the Permanent Forum and other partners in the global AIDS movement, to initiate universal access to treatment, to develop a set of resources highlighting effective approaches and best practices for HIV prevention and AIDS care in indigenous communities, particularly from the developed world, including the development of an appropriate paper to provide guidance to national HIV surveillance systems, and to advocate and promote meaningful participation of indigenous peoples in HIV policy and planning
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: IOM
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the initiative of IOM to establish a coordination mechanism for combating the trafficking of indigenous women and girls.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 102
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum strongly encourages States to provide disaggregated data on health and social welfare indicators for indigenous populations in order to better assist in the monitoring and evaluation of outcomes at the national and international levels.
Area of Work: Health
