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Addressee: ILO
Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 16 (2017)
Full Text:
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)
Full Text:
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: Indigenous Parliamentarians
Paragraph Number: 142
Session: 6 (2007)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum encourages indigenous parliamentarians to organize a global satellite conference of indigenous representatives with the objective of analyzing as a whole the level of progress in the promotion, protection and exercise of the rights of indigenous peoples around the world within the framework of the seventh session of the Permanent Forum.
Area of Work: Human rights, Cooperation
Addressee: Ecuador, Nepal
Paragraph Number: 142
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum welcomes the decision of Bolivia to make the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples national law and to include it in the Constitution approved by the Constituent Assembly. The Forum expresses its support for Bolivia’s implementation of the Declaration through national laws and other means that lead towards the restitution of lands and territories to the indigenous peoples of eastern Bolivia. The Forum encourages Ecuador and Nepal to give due consideration to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in their current constitutional processes.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum strongly urges Member States to uphold the linguistic rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
