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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
Addressee: Pan American Health Organization, WHO
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation made at its eighteenth session for the Pan American Health Organization to prepare a study on the advancements in indigenous maternal health, including with the participation of indigenous midwives (E/2019/43, para. 45). The Permanent Forum also recommends that WHO prepare similar studies in other regions.
Area of Work: Health, Indigenous Women and Girls
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: UNICEF, UNESCO
Paragraph Number: 75
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF and UNESCO support intercultural and bilingual education programmes in conjunction with the indigenous peoples concerned, paying special attention to the right of girls to primary and secondary education.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Education
