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Addressee: Government of Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that the Government of Paraguay should remain firm in its commitment to cooperating with indigenous peoples’ organizations in order to find emergency solutions to the extremely serious situation of the indigenous communities that have been wholly dispossessed of their land, and to implement policies to ensure the reconstitution of their territory.
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Governments of Canada and the United States
Paragraph Number: 98
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that the Governments of Canada and the United States address the border issues, such as those related to the Mohawk Nation and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, by taking effective measures to implement article 36 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which states that indigenous peoples divided by international borders have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation with their own members as well as other peoples across borders.
Area of Work: Human rights
