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Addressee: ILO

Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum encourages ILO to promote the ratification of the Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, 1989 (No. 169) (Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention).

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon all States to ensure that their political institutions and structures are not used as a reason to relieve the State of its responsibility to implement international human rights obligations in relation to the rights of indigenous peoples.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: IPBES

Paragraph Number: 109
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the approval of the approach to recognizing and working with indigenous and local knowledge adopted at the fifth plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, in 2017, and the establishment of a participatory mechanism for indigenous peoples and local communities in the work of the Platform. The Forum urges the identification of procedures and methodologies for effective implementation of the approach and the participatory mechanism, in partnership with indigenous peoples.

Area of Work: Participation, Methods of Work
Paragraph Number: 109
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum also notes the International Expert Group Meeting on Urban Indigenous Peoples and Migration, held in Chile in March 2007, and expresses its appreciation to the Government of Canada for providing funding to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean for hosting the event. It also recommends that States, United Nations and civil society organizations and other stakeholders contribute to the implementation of the recommendations contained in the above-mentioned publication.

Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Human Rights

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum strongly urges Member States to uphold the linguistic rights of indigenous peoples.

Area of Work: Human rights