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Addressee: UNFPA, WHO
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum notes the intention of the International Indigenous Women’s Environmental Justice and Reproductive Health Initiative to organize an expert group meeting on the environment and indigenous women’s reproductive health and requests that the organizers invite members of the Permanent Forum to participate in the meeting. Further, the Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization participate in the expert group meeting.
Area of Work: Environment, Health
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum urges States to undertake and promote the expansion of their national health systems in order to provide holistic health programmes for indigenous children that incorporate preventive medical practices and family and community participation. States are urged to address the issues of malnutrition of indigenous children victimized by poverty by adopting special measures to ensure and protect the cultivation of traditional food crops.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: WHO
Paragraph Number: 69
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum urges WHO to engage in a global consultation with indigenous peoples and others on its participatory research guidelines and seek the advice of the Permanent Forum on the guidelines.
Area of Work: Health
Paragraph Number: 75
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the Global Fund and UNAIDS participate in the Inter-Agency Support Group and that the Fund and UNAIDS present a report on the impact of their programmes and activities on indigenous peoples and communities to the Permanent Forum at its 2004 session, with specific focus on preventative programmes and activities impacting children and infants.
Area of Work: Health
Paragraph Number: 79
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the United Nations agencies supporting and promoting the Healthy Environments for Children Alliance, namely WHO, UNICEF, UNEP and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT), include a particular focus on indigenous children and youth.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: Special Rapporteur on violence against women
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences pay special attention to the impact of violence against indigenous women, including war-related violence and domestic violence.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: WHO
Paragraph Number: 68
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum urges WHO, in implementing the outlined global strategy on health of marginalized ethnic populations, to gather data and extend programme services to indigenous peoples based on criteria relating to ethnicity, cultural or tribal affiliation and language.
Area of Work: Health
Paragraph Number: 72
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum invites UNDP and the Statistical Branch of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs to present a report at the 2004 session of the Forum, setting forth the progress made to date on the Millennium Development Goals, with special focus on alleviating poverty and its affects on indigenous peoples and communities.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: UNEP
Paragraph Number: 71
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme urge States to ratify the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and adopt the recommendations of the Conference of the Parties relating to its implementation.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: UNICEF, UNFPA
Paragraph Number: 76
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum commends UNICEF and UNFPA for their work to combat female genital mutilation practices and urges them to continue their efforts with indigenous peoples and their communities.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Health
Paragraph Number: 78
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on the right to health pay special attention in his work to the right to health as contained in treaties between indigenous peoples and States.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: WGIP
Paragraph Number: 81
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the Working Group on Indigenous Populations undertake a study on genocidal and ethnocidal practices perpetrated on indigenous peoples, including programmes for sterilization of indigenous women and girls, the use of indigenous communities as subjects for nuclear testing or storage of radioactive waste and the testing of unapproved drugs on indigenous children and peoples.
Area of Work: Health
