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Addressee: Member States, IPOs
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon all States that have ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to develop, at national level, in partnership with indigenous peoples, benchmarks, timelines and indicators to measure progressive realization of indigenous human rights. Furthermore, the Permanent Forum supports the efforts to elaborate an optional protocol to allow for the submission of complaints under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 76
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum recalls paragraph 41 in its report on its twelfth session (E/2013/43-E/C.19/2013/25) and reaffirms that States should establish a monitoring mechanism to address violence against indigenous peoples, including assassinations, assassination attempts, rapes and other intimidation and persecution against indigenous human rights defenders. Furthermore, with regard to article 22 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Forum recommends that such monitoring mechanisms address the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women, and that measures be taken to ensure the full protection of indigenous women against all forms of violence.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: ASEAN, SAARC
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum recalls and stresses its earlier recommendation that the Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recognize the human rights of indigenous peoples in the ASEAN region and establish a working group on indigenous peoples. In addition, the Forum urges the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation to establish a human rights commission and a working group on indigenous 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: ECA, ESCAP, ECE, ECLAC
Paragraph Number: 76
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the preparation by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the study entitled “Rights of indigenous peoples: achievements and challenges in the Latin American countries”, and encourages other regional commissions to undertake similar studies.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States, UN system, IP
Paragraph Number: 76
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the importance of preparatory processes at all levels for bringing different perspectives to the World Conference and building a spirit of partnership, inclusion and respect, and calls upon Member States, indigenous peoples and United Nations organizations, funds and programmes to work together at the national, regional and international levels.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum expresses its thanks to the Governments of Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Canada, China, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Finland, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, the Russian Federation, Spain and the United States of America, as well as the government of Greenland, for having hosted previous pre-sessional and intersessional meetings of the Permanent Forum. The Permanent Forum stresses the importance of organizing such pre-sessional and intersessional meetings and reiterates its recommendation that States that have not yet done so consider hosting such meetings in the future. It also requests that the secretariat of the Permanent Forum organize pre-sessional meetings for future sessions of the Permanent Forum.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Paragraph Number: 76
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism undertake a study on the implications of national security and anti-terrorist laws, policies and programmes for indigenous peoples and make recommendations on the human rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
