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Addressee: IOM, UNHCR
Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 18 (2019)
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In this regard, the Forum invites the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to pay special attention to the situation of indigenous peoples and address these issues in accordance with their mandates. The Forum recommends that IOM and UNHCR develop specific guidelines on indigenous migrants and to actively participate in the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues.
Area of Work: Human rights, Migration
Addressee: Member States, UN systems
Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that all Member States, with the assistance of United Nations agencies, as necessary develop capacity-building programs, including curricula that have a strong human rights focus, including collective rights of indigenous peoples, across the spectrum of national educational institutions
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 82
Session: 18 (2019)
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With regard to the development of national action plans, as committed to by Member States at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum welcomes the adoption by the Government of El Salvador of a national action plan and encourages its full and effective implementation. The Forum strongly urges other States to follow this good practice and develop their own national action plans for the full implementation of the Declaration. The Forum also encourages States to review recommendations made at past sessions, renew efforts at their implementation and report on progress made by 2021. The Forum invites the United Nations system to support the efforts of Member States in this regard.
Area of Work: Human rights, National Action Plans
Addressee: Member states
Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 20 (2021)
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Considering the continued threats facing indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation and initial contact, and given their unique vulnerability in the time of the pandemic, the Permanent Forum recommends that local populations in the territories and adjacent areas of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation and initial contact be prioritized in COVID-19 vaccination plans. The Forum reminds States that, by virtue of their international obligations, and specifically those contained in the American Convention on Human Rights, they must adopt measures to safeguard the life and integrity of their citizens, especially when it comes to highly vulnerable population groups, as in the case of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation and initial contact.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 82
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to recognize and protect indigenous peoples’ cultural right to water and, through legislation and policy, to support the right of indigenous peoples to hunt and gather food resources from waters used for cultural, economic and commercial purposes. This is consistent with article 25 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights, Environment, Culture
Addressee: Asamblea del Pueblo Guaraní de Boliva (APG)
Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum encourages APG to continue to give priority to its endeavours to eliminate the servitude and contemporary forms of slavery to which families and communities in Santa Cruz, especially in Alto Parapetí, and in Chuquisaca, are subjected. The Permanent Forum encourages APG, as the organization that represents the Guaraní people in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, to continue to give priority to combating these extremely serious human rights violations as part of its broader programme of reconstitution of the Guaraní people.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UN Treaty Bodies and Member States
Paragraph Number: 82
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the relevant treaty bodies take into account the Declaration and urges States to include information regarding its implementation in their reports to the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council.
Area of Work: Human rights
