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Addressee: Member States; UN entities
Paragraph Number: 25
Session: 24 (2025)
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States should operationalize the Declaration by reviewing and reforming internal administrative boundaries that divide Indigenous Peoples’ territories, ensuring respect for their territorial integrity. United Nations entities should integrate Indigenous Peoples’ territorial realities into data systems, peacebuilding, development and humanitarian efforts to avoid reliance on State-centric boundaries that overlook Indigenous geographies.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources, UNDRIP, Implementation
Addressee: European Union
Paragraph Number: 59
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum urges the European Union to include the standards of the Declaration within its corporate sustainability due diligence regulations and rules, in particular in the context of implementing the Critical Raw Materials Act on the territories of Indigenous Peoples, both inside and outside the European Union.
Area of Work: implementation, Lands and Resources
Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women must guarantee equal access and non-discrimination of Indigenous women in respect of its communications procedure under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. States are encouraged to report annually on their progress in implementing general recommendation No. 39.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Implementation
Addressee: Member States, Indigenous Peoples
Paragraph Number: 6
Session: 17 (2018)
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Positive developments have been achieved in setting international human rights standards for the rights of indigenous peoples to lands, territories and resources, including by regional human rights mechanisms in Africa and the Americas. The Permanent Forum welcomes those developments, including the recent decision of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the case of the Ogiek community in Kenya. The Forum encourages indigenous peoples and States to engage further with regional mechanisms and to implement their decisions effectively.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources, implementation
