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Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 111
Session: 4 (2005)
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Improve and increase indigenous women's economic and social conditions through: (a) expansion of employment opportunities; (b) Promotion of the professionalization of their traditional skills, arts and crafts; c) Access to resources, including microcredit, new technologies and agricultural input; (d) Support the regional meetings of indigenous women and organize training on international, regional and national mechanisms

Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls

Addressee: UN system

Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes with appreciation the decision of the General Assembly, in its resolution 66/141, to request that the Secretary-General submit to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a comprehensive report on the rights of the child, including a focus on indigenous children. The Forum wishes to take part in any initiative undertaken by the Secretary-General in preparing the comprehensive report on the rights of the child.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth

Addressee: UN system

Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 4 (2005)
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United Nations agencies should provide incentives and funding opportunities for indigenous youth organizations to initiate non-formal education activities targeting girls and women. Where initiatives already exist, they should develop replication strategies and scale up existing initiatives

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth