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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that all States apply the principles of general comment No. 11 (2009) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, entitled “Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention”.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Human Rights
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum learned of the threat posed to the health of indigenous peoples by four non-communicable diseases — diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and chronic lung disease — and their common risk factors. The Permanent Forum welcomes the organization of a high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and requests that representatives of indigenous peoples be invited to contribute to and participate in the meeting, as well as the interactive hearings with civil society scheduled for June 2011.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 81
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Governments respect the free participation of indigenous representatives in United Nations meetings and activities relevant to them, including the Permanent Forum and other bodies.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: CAPI and other IPO
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum encourages CAPI and other indigenous peoples’ organizations to continue to defend the principle of indigenous peoples’ self-determination that they have followed in asserting their own identity, and thus to continue their efforts to reach agreement with the Government on reforms consistent with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: FAO; WHO
Paragraph Number: 81
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum acknowledges the progress made on its recommendation to FAO and WHO to revise the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management to include Indigenous Peoples’ views. The Permanent Forum urges FAO and WHO to develop guidance notes on the risk of pesticide use in Indigenous Peoples’ territories, in consultation with Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 81
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum invites Member States to fully implement recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples following her or his country visits.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: HRC
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Human Rights Council authorize at least one more session of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations so that it can review and, as needed, complete its important work.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN Population Fund
Paragraph Number: 81
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) advance data and research on the challenges that indigenous women and girls face in realizing their right to bodily autonomy and the right to be free from violence, including reproductive coercion and in birthing practices. Furthermore, the Permanent Forum invites UNFPA to prepare a study on indigenous women’s bodily autonomy, with the participation of indigenous women, and to present its findings at the twenty-third session of the Permanent Forum, to be held in 2024.
Area of Work: Health, Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: NHRIs
Paragraph Number: 81
Session: 16 (2017)
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National human rights institutions are encouraged to work with indigenous peoples to develop strategies to protect and provide support to indigenous human rights defenders.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN system, other appropriate bodies
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 2 (2003)
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On the basis of information received at its second session, the Forum expresses its deep concern about the reported atrocities committed against the Pygmy people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Kuna people of Panama, and atrocities committed against indigenous peoples in other regions of the world. It urges the entire United Nations system as well as the appropriate bodies to take appropriate action.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 81
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) conduct a study on violence against indigenous women and access to justice, especially in cross-border situations, in cooperation with indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Human Rights
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
