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Addressee: UN system, Member States
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 4 (2005)
Full Text:
The Forum welcomes resolution 49/7 of the Commission on the Status of Women, entitled "Indigenous women beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action", adopted in March 2005, and recommends to the United Nations system and Governments to implement that resolution
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: CBD
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 10 (2011)
Full Text:
Affirmation of the status of indigenous peoples as “peoples” is important in fully respecting and protecting their human rights. Consistent with its 2010 report (E/2010/43-E/C.19/2010/15), the Permanent Forum calls upon the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and especially including the Nagoya Protocol, to adopt the terminology “indigenous peoples and local communities” as an accurate reflection of the distinct identities developed by those entities since the adoption of the Convention almost 20 years ago
Area of Work: Environment, Traditional Knowledge
