A-Z Site Index
Menu
  1. Recommendations Database
  2. Area of Work String: human rights
  3. Paragraph Number » Taxonomy term » Name: 143, 154
  4. Recommendations Database
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2
View

Addressee: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders

Paragraph Number: 154
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum requests that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders conduct a specific study on the situation of indigenous human rights defenders and submit a report to the Permanent Forum at its eighth session.

Area of Work: Human rights
View

Addressee: UN system/UN agencies, churches, NGOs, private sector

Paragraph Number: 143
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum, in accordance with article 26 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the right to the lands, territories and resources that the indigenous peoples have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired), requests States, United Nations agencies, churches, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to fully respect the property rights of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact in the Amazon and the Paraguayan and Bolivian Chaco.

Area of Work: Human rights