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Addressee: USA
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the United States of America grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, who has been imprisoned since 1977 and is now an elderly person.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum calls on the chairs of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals to address inequalities through the sustainable development goals, with a special focus on indigenous peoples, in order to uphold human rights for all, eliminate discrimination, reduce inequalities and ensure that no one is left behind.
Area of Work: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Human Rights
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum urges States that have been recommended by the universal periodic review to ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), to do so
Area of Work: Human rights, ILO 169
Addressee: Human Rights Council
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends to the Human Rights Council that, in the course of a universal periodic review, the situation of indigenous peoples of a country under consideration also be examined.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum requests that Member States and other potential donors increase their contributions to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, the United Nations Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership and the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues in order to guarantee the exercise of the right of indigenous peoples to participate in United Nations meetings of specific concern to them.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum strongly supports the position expressed in the outcome document of the Durban Review Conference that States should take all necessary measures to implement the rights of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: IASG
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that a task force be created within the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues to specifically address migration issues of indigenous peoples, as suggested in the 2006 Geneva workshop on this matter (E/C.19/2007/CRP.5).
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that all States that have introduced changes to existing indigenous land management regimes invite the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people to undertake a study of those regimes and assess them against the principles contained in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 3 (2004)
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The special rapporteurs, as well as other mechanisms relevant to the Commission on Human Rights, are encouraged to study the effects of armed conflict on the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples, especially on women and children.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Human Rights Council mandate the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, with the contribution of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, to undertake a study on incarceration, deaths in custody and indigenous peoples
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum urges States, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, to develop and implement specific laws and mechanisms to protect indigenous human rights defenders, to ensure that attacks against them are investigated and that those persons responsible are held accountable.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 14 (2015)
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The Permanent Forum reminds States that the implementation of the United Nations Declaration provides a common framework for reconciliation, justice, healing and peace. Each State has a prime responsibility and duty to protect, promote and implement all human rights, consistent with the Charter of the United Nations and international human rights law. Furthermore, all forms of discrimination must be avoided.
Area of Work: Human rights
