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Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum encourages APG to continue to defend in a cooperative and constructive manner, the principles of self-determination and free, prior and informed consent in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which the Plurinational State of Bolivia has incorporated into its domestic law and applied through its Constitution

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 10 (2011)
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Given the importance of the full range of the human rights of indigenous peoples, including traditional knowledge, culturally appropriate procedures to ensure communication, information, and scheduling, the Permanent Forum calls on all United Nations agencies and intergovernmental agencies to implement policies, procedures and mechanisms that ensure the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent consistent with their right to self-determination as reflected in common article 1 of the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which makes reference to permanent sovereignty over natural resources.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum urges UNICEF to develop its policy on and guidelines regarding indigenous peoples in time for the third session of the Forum.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 133
Session: 7 (2008)
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Furthermore, the Permanent Forum will promote a constructive dialogue with Governments on the achievements, challenges and future action required in relation to indigenous peoples’ issues in each country under the Declaration. Such dialogue will take place periodically and enlist the participation of indigenous organizations and the United Nations system. The discussion will create an enabling environment of cooperation at the national and international levels, aiming at practical results on the ground.

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 75
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that United Nations human rights mechanisms examine the plight of indigenous peoples from French Polynesia, Guam and the Marshall Islands who have been victims of the effects of nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 63
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum encourages national human rights institutions to promote the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the national and international levels, in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples.

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 86
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum underlines the importance for country-specific special rapporteurs, thematic special rapporteurs, experts and representatives of the Commission on Human Rights to pay special attention to the situation of indigenous peoples in their respective fields.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to cooperate with indigenous peoples to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities and to provide support for measures aimed at ensuring their full and effective participation in decision-making processes at all levels and at eliminating structural and legal barriers to their full, equal and effective participation in political, economic, social and cultural life.

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

Addressee: Nordic States

Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Nordic States to ratify, as soon as possible, the Nordic Saami Convention, which could set an example for other indigenous peoples whose traditional territories are divided by international borders.

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 118
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has analysed and discussed indigenous fishing rights in the seas on the basis of a report submitted by the Special Rapporteurs. As a result of those discussions, the Forum considers the protection of the material basis of the culture of indigenous peoples to be a part of international law that should be applied also to fishing rights in the seas, and recommends that States in which indigenous peoples live in coastal areas recognize indigenous peoples’ right to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law. In that context, the Forum notes the ongoing consultations between the Government of Norway and the Sami Parliament and recommends that the Government recognize the right of the coastal Sami to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law.

Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development

Addressee: NHRIs

Paragraph Number: 20
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum appreciates the participation and active input of national and regional human rights institutions at its sixteenth session, encourages studies and reports by the national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of indigenous rights and invites those institutions to present their reports and studies in future sessions.

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 78
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that donors, including the European Union, the European Commission, the Department of State of the United States of America, human rights support organizations and others provide long-term funding, legal aid and other resources to assist indigenous human rights defenders, their families, networks and communities.

Area of Work: Human rights