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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 107
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum invites Member States to participate in informal discussions on the effective and efficient impacts of the Permanent Forum on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including in the contexts of biodiversity, climate change, desertification and the enjoyment of human rights by indigenous peoples, in particular efforts to combat violence against indigenous women and children. The Permanent Forum also invites Member States to enhance the effective participation of indigenous peoples in the design and implementation of efforts in the context the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development; the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028; the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration; and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Environment, Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum regrets the continuous killings, violence and harassment targeted at indigenous human rights defenders, including indigenous women, in the context of resisting mining and infrastructure projects and other such developments. The Permanent Forum therefore invites Member States to honour their human rights obligations. In this regard, the Permanent Forum welcomes General Assembly resolution 76/148 on the rights of indigenous peoples, in which States are urged to take necessary measures to ensure the rights, protection and safety of indigenous peoples, including indigenous leaders and indigenous human rights defenders, and to ensure that perpetrators are held accountable and that access to justice and remedy is guaranteed.
Area of Work: Human Rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the recent entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Forum encourages Member States to accede to the Optional Protocol and requests the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to consider the preparation of a general comment on the economic, social and cultural rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 107
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum recognizes and applauds other indigenous fellowship programmes, in particular the fellowship programme established and funded by the regular budget of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the newly established fellowship programme of the ILO. Furthermore, the Forum particularly recognizes the capacity-building efforts of the indigenous fellowship programme of the Office and requests that, in order to complement their Geneva based training, the indigenous fellows at the Office should participate, on an annual basis, in the sessions of the Forum. Further consideration should also be given to provide some time for training at the secretariat of the Forum, during non-sessional periods.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: SRVAW, its causes and consequences; SRIP
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum expresses its appreciation to the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples for their participation at its third session, and recommends that they pay special attention to the factors contributing to violence against indigenous women, especially domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Colombia, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum thanks the Government of Colombia for its support during the Forum mission to Colombia and requests that the Government, the United Nations country team and the United Nations agencies involved in the mission implement the recommendations contained in the mission report (E/C.19/2011/3) through consultation and full collaboration with the indigenous peoples concerned. The Permanent Forum intends to assess the implementation of the recommendations at its eleventh session.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: ILO, Member States
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation to ILO to accommodate and guarantee the direct participation of indigenous peoples’ organizations in ILO procedures, in particular those relating to compliance with the ILO Convention concerning the Protection and Integration of Indigenous and Other Tribal and Semi-Tribal Populations in Independent Countries (Convention No. 107) and the ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (Convention No. 169) and their corresponding supervisory mechanisms. The Forum reiterates its call upon Member States to accede to the ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (Convention No. 169).
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN Agencies Funds and Programmes - UN System
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum urges the meeting of chairpersons of the human rights treaty bodies and the meeting of the special rapporteurs and other mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights organized by the Office of the High Commissioner to place indigenous peoples, including indigenous women, on their agenda and invite the Forum to participate.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 10 (2011)
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Recognizing that there is a general lack of awareness of the distinct status of indigenous peoples and the human rights of indigenous peoples, which may lead to systemic discrimination, the Permanent Forum urges all levels of government to ensure that relevant staff as well as the broader public are aware of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in order to promote and ultimately achieve a framework for justice, reconciliation and respect for the human rights of all. Furthermore, the Permanent Forum requests all States to uphold the names of respected past and present indigenous leaders, and indigenous peoples, and that they not be used in any inappropriate military connections.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum urges all States to commit to a process, with the participation of indigenous peoples, responding to the country reports of all United Nations special rapporteurs, including:
(a) Providing a written response to the rapporteur’s report, submitted to the Human Rights Council, within six months of the report’s issuance. The response should outline the State process for implementing the recommendations of the report;
(b) Developing and publicly promoting a strategy to implement the recommendations of the report within 12 months of its issuance;
(c) Providing annual updates of the rapporteur’s report detailing the implementation of the strategy until such time as the rapporteur conducts a new visit to the State in question, or until that State undergoes a universal periodic review.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum regrets the continuous killings, violence and harassment targeted at indigenous human rights defenders, including indigenous women, in the context of resisting mining and infrastructure projects and other such developments. The Permanent Forum therefore invites Member States to honour their human rights obligations. In this regard, the Permanent Forum welcomes General Assembly resolution 76/148 on the rights of indigenous peoples, in which States are urged to take necessary measures to ensure the rights, protection and safety of indigenous peoples, including indigenous leaders and indigenous human rights defenders, and to ensure that perpetrators are held accountable and that access to justice and remedy is guaranteed.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum supports the initiative of OHCHR to develop guidelines for the protection of peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact in the Amazon Region and the Gran Chaco, which are currently under consultation with indigenous organizations and the States concerned. The Permanent Forum recommends that, in developing the guidelines, attention be directed to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly in terms of the right to self-determination. The organizations in closest contact with those indigenous peoples that remain in voluntary isolation or initial contact should be involved in the elaboration of these guidelines.
Area of Work: Human rights
