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Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 61
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum acknowledges the equity policy of UNICEF and pays particular attention to vulnerable indigenous children and youth in terms of food security, shelter, health and education. UNICEF, in developing its indigenous peoples policy, should consider the standards set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in relation to indigenous children and youth.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Cooperation
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to cooperate with indigenous peoples to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities and to provide support for measures aimed at ensuring their full and effective participation in decision-making processes at all levels and at eliminating structural and legal barriers to their full, equal and effective participation in political, economic, social and cultural life.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 19
Session: 22 (2023)
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The accessibility of general recommendation No. 39 to Indigenous Peoples is crucial to ensure its effective implementation and impact on the ground. The Permanent Forum recommends its translation into Indigenous languages spoken by Indigenous Peoples in their States before the end of 2032.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Indigenous Languages
Addressee: Member States, UN-Women, UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 121
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the UNDP Global Programme for Electoral Cycle Support initiative, with its focus on indigenous women and youth in Latin America, and appreciates the contributions provided by donors to ensure the success of the initiative. The Forum recommends that Member States, UN-Women and UNICEF provide financial support for this important initiative for indigenous women and youth.
Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Women and Girls, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: SPFII
Paragraph Number: 18
Session: 2 (2003)
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In order to promote further knowledge of the Forum and the role of the United Nations among indigenous children and youth, the Forum decides to organize an indigenous youth art competition for the design of a logo for the Forum and to present the results to the Forum at its fourth session, in 2005, with the highest participation of indigenous children, including illiterate children.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that all States apply the principles of general comment No. 11 (2009) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, entitled “Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention”.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Human Rights
Addressee: Indigenous Peoples
Paragraph Number: 34
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that indigenous peoples, as the rightful owners and custodians of their own languages , initiate and develop their own action plans and appropriate measures for the International Year and awareness -raising campaigns to draw attention to the situation of indigenous languages.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages
Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 72
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that UNICEF continue to gather data on the issue of children and migration and information on the effects of migration on children, recognizing in particular the situation of indigenous children, the risks of serious exploitation, such as trafficking in human beings for various purposes, and the restoration of rights to victims and vulnerable children, such as street children, through all country-level programmes.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 9
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum is deeply concerned that particular problems and discrimination are faced by indigenous children and youth, including in the areas of education, health, culture, extreme poverty, mortality, incarceration, labour and other relevant areas. The Forum notes the need for new indicators to be developed by the United Nations that will specifically target those problems, and in that regard invites UNICEF to develop such new indicators and share them with other entities of the United Nations system, especially UNESCO.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that UNESCO, in cooperation with the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Forum and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, and with the direct participation of indigenous peoples, develop a comprehensive action plan for the International Year and invites UNESCO to submit the plan to the Forum at its seventeenth session.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages
Addressee: Member states
Paragraph Number: 35
Session: 20 (2021)
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Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by Member States in 2015, the Permanent Forum has repeatedly highlighted the importance of ensuring the meaningful and full participation of indigenous peoples in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Unfortunately, the world is not on track to meet globally agreed targets. This has been particularly evident during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which existing inequities have been exacerbated, placing the survival of indigenous peoples at greater risk. During the pandemic, indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women and girls, have not only been left behind, but have been left even further behind.
Area of Work: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Indigenous Women and Girls, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States, local authorities, UNESCO
Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum encourages Member States, local authorities and UNESCO to assist indigenous peoples in establishing working groups on language planning, development and modernization, with financial support. Furthermore, the Permanent Forum recommends that UNESCO undertake a study on best practices for language curriculum development and publicize its findings by 2024.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, Education
