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Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 116
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that relevant States recognize indigenous peoples’ right to prior, free and informed consent and provide support mechanisms for involuntarily displaced indigenous peoples to be able to return to their original communities, including appropriate forms of repatriation, compensation and restitution and provision for the sustainable livelihoods of those peoples.

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that OHCHR conduct in 2007, in consultation with indigenous peoples’ organizations, non-governmental organizations, experts, States and multilateral and bilateral agencies, the formulation of guidelines directed to all actors, both governmental and non-governmental, dealing with the respect and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact.

Area of Work: Human rights