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Paragraph Number: 91
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the upcoming World Congress of Protected Areas, to be held in Barcelona in October 2008. The Forum reiterates its recommendation to the 2003 World Congress of Protected Areas. The Forum requests that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples be duly considered in the deliberations and results of the World Congress on Protected Areas, and that its participating organizations address the issues of restitution and free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples for conservation activities affecting indigenous lands and territories, sacred sites and indigenous peoples’ conservation activities.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: UNDG

Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the lively and analytical dialogue that emerged from the half-day discussion on the African region and encourages the United Nations Development Group to facilitate further dialogue between States and indigenous peoples at the African continental level to foster better understanding of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the commitments to indigenous peoples that Member States have made. Within this framework, capacity-building at the national level should be enhanced.

Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to promote and protect the rights of indigenous women and men working as journalists, communicators and as human rights defenders in accordance with international human rights law, in particular in accordance with article 16 of the Declaration, which calls for the full freedom of expression of indigenous peoples.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: Bolivia

Paragraph Number: 38
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the fact that the principles and rules contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples have been integrated into the new constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, which was ratified in a referendum held on 25 January 2009.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: UN agencies

Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the call, made at its tenth session, to United Nations agencies and funds to conduct and support regional and international human rights training programmes aimed at building the capacity and advocacy skills of indigenous youth. Furthermore, the Forum recommends the use of social media, youth forums and other popular cultural forms of communication to disseminate information and training material on the rights of indigenous youth and to facilitate consultation processes at the national and international levels.

Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 61
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum urges the international community to support the peace process in Mali and establish an independent monitoring committee that, in accordance with articles 7 and 37 of the United Nations Declaration, would oversee the implementation of the peace agreement of 20 June 2015, with the effective and representative participation of the Tuareg peoples.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 76
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that courts and judicial bodies take urgent step to ensure the protection of indigenous peoples from threats of the use of physical violence by Governments or paramilitary groups controlled by Governments and non-State actors

Area of Work: Human Rights

Addressee: OHCHR

Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum takes note with concern of the situation of indigenous peoples of the Sahel and other parts of Africa, where a number of factors, including climate change, are having a devastating impact on economic development and human security. The lack of recognition of the collective rights of these peoples has created fertile ground for their loss of territories and resources and the emergence of complex forms of conflict, including violent extremism. The Forum calls on the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to prepare recommendations for the consideration of the African Union to address this situation, in partnership with the Economic Commission for Africa and other regional bodies.

Area of Work: Lands and Resources, Human Rights

Addressee: Security Council

Paragraph Number: 15
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum considers climate change to be a driver of insecurity, exacerbating conflicts over lands, territories and resources. The Forum calls upon the Security Council to consider indigenous peoples as partners. Close consultation with indigenous peoples is required to ensure the respect of the rights of indigenous peoples in conflict and post-conflict situations.

Area of Work: Human rights
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
Paragraph Number: 43
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the efforts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to construe the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, regarding indigenous persons, taking into account the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Committee request relevant State parties to the Convention to prepare the sections relating to indigenous peoples in their reports on the implementation of the Convention in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: Tanzania

Paragraph Number: 61
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon the Government of the United Republic of
Tanzania to immediately cease efforts to evict the Maasai people from the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Area of Work: Human rights, lands and resources