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Addressee: Government of Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 85
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that those responsible for practices of forced labour or other forms of servitude should be prosecuted under Paraguayan law.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Human Rights Council
Paragraph Number: 86
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the increased cooperation between itself and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people and strongly recommends that the Human Rights Council maintain the mandate of the Special Rapporteur.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 85
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Forum decides to invite the Special Rapporteur on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people and the Special Rapporteurs on the right to education and the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to its seventh session.
Area of Work: Human rights
Paragraph Number: 86
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum underlines the importance for country-specific special rapporteurs, thematic special rapporteurs, experts and representatives of the Commission on Human Rights to pay special attention to the situation of indigenous peoples in their respective fields.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Secretary-General, OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 85
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum appreciates the preparation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of the information note on the ways in which indigenous issues have been addressed in Charter-based mechanisms and treaty bodies. The Forum recommends that the Secretary-General prepare, in several stages, an analytical study on the subject. In the initial stage, the Forum recommends the Secretary-General prepare a study on the ways in which indigenous issues have been addressed in the consideration of reports of States parties submitted under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Bangladesh
Paragraph Number: 85
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes information from the Government of Bangladesh on progress towards the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord. It calls upon Bangladesh to make further efforts towards full implementation of the Accord through constructive dialogue and cooperation with the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, the three Hill District Councils and the Chittagong Hill Tracts Land Dispute Resolution Commission.
Area of Work: Human rights, Conflict Prevention and Peace
Addressee: Nepal
Paragraph Number: 86
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Constitution of Nepal has provisions for special, protected and autonomous regions for Indigenous Peoples. The Permanent Forum welcomes further progress towards realizing the provisions of the Constitution, including by considering the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to Nepal in 2018 on respect for Indigenous Peoples’ rights to their traditional lands and resources and to self-determination.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Human rights
Addressee: OHCHR, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, and WIPO
Paragraph Number: 85
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in cooperation with the Permanent Forum develop a coherent and strategic plan of action in Africa in cooperation with indigenous peoples and their representative organizations, and that the implementation of the programme of the Office of the High Commissioner to strengthen capacity to protect and advocate for the human rights of indigenous peoples be linked to other United Nations bodies, notably the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), UNESCO and others.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: Government of Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 86
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Paraguay should propose the negotiation of international agreements for protection of the rights of indigenous peoples with the other States of the Chaco region — the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil — and particularly with the Plurinational State of Bolivia with a view to the latter’s development of additional policies aimed at the freeing of individuals, the recovery of land and the rebuilding of peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
