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Paragraph Number: 31
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing of the Convention on Biological Diversity recognize the rights of indigenous peoples over the biological and genetic resources of their own territories.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 44
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum notes that the 2010 annual report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations devotes increased attention to the implementation by States parties of conventions relevant to the rights of indigenous peoples. The Permanent Forum also notes that 6 of the 12 countries under individual observation on ILO Convention C169 in 2010 must submit a report in 2010, which indicates the serious concern of the Committee about compliance with the Convention by those countries. The Permanent Forum urges the relevant States to present their reports by the deadline established by ILO.

Area of Work: Human rights

Addressee: IP

Paragraph Number: 31
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates that indigenous peoples should report to the Forum on how they are implementing the Declaration in their own communities, thereby contributing to the growing evidence of how the principles enshrined in the Declaration are being practised.

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 44
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum recommends that Governments and international organizations encourage indigenous peoples to participate fully in the work of reconciliation and truth commissions. The Forum welcomes the contribution of a paper by the Division for the Advancement of Women on the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (see E/C.19/2004/CRP.7) and recommends that the Committee enhance its monitoring of the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women regarding indigenous women, and that it prepare and adopt a general comment on indigenous women, with the full participation of indigenous women.

Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 31
Session: 20 (2021)
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Member States must urgently address violence against indigenous peoples, including State violence, gender-based violence, forced assimilation and forced child removals, discrimination in the justice system and other forms of discrimination, including discrimination based on gender, religion, disability, age and LGBTIQ identity. The Forum encourages the Expert Mechanism, at its earliest convenience, to engage with the Governments of Australia and New Zealand, and with the participation of indigenous peoples, regarding the removal of indigenous children.

Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Women and Girls, Indigenous Children and Youth

Addressee: United States

Paragraph Number: 31
Session: 15 (2016)
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Mauna Kea, the sacred mountain for native Hawaiians, is currently targeted for the placement of an international observatory featuring a 30-metre telescope. Such an activity inhibits and is contrary to the rights articulated in articles 11 and 12 of the United Nations Declaration. In addition, the Permanent Forum strongly recommends that the free, prior and informed consent of native Hawaiians be recognized.

Area of Work: Human rights, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)