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Addressee: National and transnational corporations
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that national and transnational corporations adhere to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in order to ensure protection of the rights of indigenous human rights defenders.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the dialogues to support indigenous peoples’ preparations for the United Nations Food Systems Summit. The Forum requests Member States and the secretariat of the Summit to guarantee the participation of indigenous peoples at the Summit with a view to ensuring due reflection of indigenous peoples’ rights and issues in the relevant outcome documents.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Human Rights
Addressee: Government of Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Government of Paraguay should remain firm in its commitment to cooperating with indigenous peoples’ organizations in order to find emergency solutions to the extremely serious situation of the indigenous communities that have been wholly dispossessed of their land, and to implement policies to ensure the reconstitution of their territory.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Kenya
Paragraph Number: 101
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the progressive decisions made by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in favour of the collective rights of indigenous peoples. The Forum is concerned about the lack of implementation and urges the Government of Kenya to fully implement its decisions on applications 006/2012 (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v. Republic of Kenya) and 276/03 (Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) v. Kenya).
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that human rights treaty bodies begin to undertake dialogue and cooperation with indigenous peoples’ organizations with a view to discussing the preparation of general comments relevant to indigenous peoples, and that those bodies be encouraged to formulate recommendations and general comments within their competence on the rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 101
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum has decided to appoint members of the Forum, Megan Davis, Simon William M’Viboudoulou, Valmaine Toki, Paul Kanyinke Sena, Edward John, Álvaro Esteban Pop Ac and Raja Devasish Roy, to conduct a study on national constitutions and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with a view to assessing the nature and extent of the inclusion of indigenous peoples’ human rights in national constitutions, with reference to the rights affirmed in the Declaration, to be submitted to the eleventh session of the Permanent Forum in 2012.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that States include independent indigenous experts in national human rights commissions
Area of Work: Human rights
