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Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues organize a workshop on policies and best practices of engaging indigenous youth and children on prevention of suicide among them and report to the Forum at its next session (2006)

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Health

Addressee: Member states

Paragraph Number: 64
Session: 20 (2021)
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Furthermore, States should strengthen measures, systems and resources to effectively address all forms of violence against indigenous women, such as female genital mutilation; child marriage; sexual abuse; forced labour; modern slavery; domestic, institutional and political violence, including in the context of forced displacement; sexual exploitation; trafficking; armed conflict; and the militarization of indigenous lands and territories.

Area of Work: Human Rights, Indigenous Women and Girls, Indigenous Children and Youth

Addressee: SPFII

Paragraph Number: 23
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that in staffing the secretariat of the Forum, due consideration be given to qualified indigenous youth applicants.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 56
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that indigenous peoples’ organizations, as well as the United Nations entities in the Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development and the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, consult indigenous youth-led organizations in order to include issues pertaining to indigenous youth in their work at the local, national, regional and global levels.

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

Addressee: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 68
Session: 10 (2011)
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Bearing in mind the principle of free, prior and informed consent as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum recommends that relevant UNICEF materials be translated into the languages of and made accessible to the indigenous peoples with whom the Fund is working so that they can participate fully in the planning and implementation of projects that directly or indirectly affect them.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth

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
Paragraph Number: 73
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum requests the members of the Inter-Agency Support Group to include in their annual reports to the Forum information on progress made in the implementation of the system-wide action plan.

Area of Work: SWAP
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum invites the General Assembly to consider the creation of a distinct United Nations voluntary fund for indigenous youth or the earmarking of existing and future funds to increase and enhance the direct participation of indigenous youth at the United Nations. Furthermore, the Forum encourages every State Member of the United Nations to make multi-year voluntary contributions to such existing and/or future funds.

Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 25
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum, deeply concerned about the harmful and widespread impact of armed conflict on indigenous children, recommends that the Committee on the Rights of the Child make recommendations on the situation of the human rights of indigenous children involved in armed conflict, taking into account the principles and norms contained in the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 4 (2005)
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Recognizing and appreciating the progress made, but at the same time acknowledging that further work needs to be done, it is urged that recommendations by the Forum at its past sessions that are of particular relevance to children and youth be implemented immediately

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth

Addressee: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 64
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF, when completing its strategic policy framework on indigenous peoples, include indigenous youth in the design of the policy. In addition, particular attention is needed to reflect the diversity among indigenous children and to focus on vulnerable groups, such as victims of human trafficking and child pornography, as well as groups facing manifold discrimination based on gender, disability or sexual orientation.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Cooperation