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Paragraph Number: 152
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on business and human rights and the United Nations Global Compact unite their efforts in cooperation with the Forum, engaging with the private sector on issues related to indigenous peoples, including the promotion of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its implementation.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 112
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to adopt the terminology “indigenous peoples and local communities” as an accurate reflection of the distinct identities developed by those entities since the adoption of the Convention almost 20 years ago.
Area of Work: Human rights
