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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 43
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum calls for the implementation on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which gives clear guidance to States on the need for them to minimize childhood exposure to toxic chemicals through water, food, air and other sources of exposure. It is critical that environmental regulators be educated specifically regarding article 24 of the Convention.
Area of Work: Health, Environment
Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 14
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that UNICEF consider the appointment of a goodwill ambassador of indigenous children and youth to raise public awareness and that it urge all UNICEF ambassadors to pay attention to the specific problems of indigenous children and youth.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: WHO, UNPF
Paragraph Number: 14
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund and other relevant entities coordinate in the formulation of key intercultural standards and indicators of quality of care to be considered in the definition of a future post-2015 goal on universal health coverage that includes the sexual and reproductive health of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Health, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Addressee: FAO; Global Indigenous Youth Forum
Paragraph Number: 43
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the 2023 Indigenous youth Rome Declaration on Safeguarding Seven Generations in times of Food, Social, and Ecological Crisis that resulted from the second session of the Global Indigenous Youth Forum organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Forum encourages FAO and the Global Indigenous Youth Forum to hold regional consultations in all seven Indigenous regions before the third session of the Global Indigenous Youth Forum in 2025
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 43
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to generate statistics disaggregated by ethnicity, gender, indigenous identity, language, language skills and self-identification, and to provide sources of data to allow for a more accurate assessment of whether indigenous children and youth are actually benefiting from the expenditure earmarked for them. The Forum also urges United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to support member States in generating statistics and the United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and academic centres to produce a toolkit that provides a comprehensive and an accurate overview of human development indicators concerning indigenous children and youth.
Area of Work: Cooperation, Indigenous Children and Youth
