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Addressee: Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination

Paragraph Number: 56
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum invites the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination to conduct a study on the human rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples of the Sahel region by mercenaries and other non-State armed actors.

Area of Work: Human rights, Conflict Prevention and Peace
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Addressee: PGA

Paragraph Number: 56
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the President of the General Assembly take immediate steps to ensure the full, equal, direct and effective participation of indigenous peoples throughout all aspects and processes of the high-level plenary meeting/World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in order to achieve an action-oriented, concise, inclusive, constructive and comprehensive outcome that will genuinely promote the full and effective implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (art. 18).

Area of Work: Methods of Work
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Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 155
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum reaffirms that indigenous peoples’ participation is crucial for the work of the Forum, and it therefore urges States to facilitate this participation, especially those indigenous peoples funded by the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations.

Area of Work: Human rights
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Addressee: Member States, the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organization

Paragraph Number: 155
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that States recognize the right of indigenous peoples to own, control, use and have access to their forests, and calls on States to reform their laws and policies that deny indigenous peoples that right. The Forum is gravely concerned about the continuing eviction of indigenous peoples from their forests and calls on States and the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations to protect and respect the rights of forest-dwelling and forest-dependent indigenous peoples and to provide redress to those whose rights have been violated.

Area of Work: Human rights