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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
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: UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 114
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum invites United Nations bodies with expertise on human rights, cultural rights and the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples to provide legal and technical comments on the revised draft protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization for transmission to parties to the Convention for consideration in their final negotiations.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge, Human Rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 114
Session: 4 (2005)
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Include relevant information on the rights of indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women by engaging indigenous organizations in the reporting process to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other relevant human rights bodies, encouraging indigenous women through their organizations to become involved in the reporting process to the Committee
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Human rights
