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Paragraph Number: 19
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Forum expresses its concerns regarding continued violence against women and, owing to the seriousness of these conditions, reiterates its previous recommendations regarding: human and sex trafficking; prostitution and trans-border issues; the disappearance, or murder, of aboriginal women; issues related to identification and birth certificates; environmental violence; intergenerational trauma; youth suicide; peace and security; conflict prevention and resolution; cultural practices such as female genital mutilation or cutting; bride price and promised brides; racism and discrimination; and data disaggregation.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 19
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum, taking into account the large number of incarcerated indigenous children and youth and the need to assist them in reintegrating into society as soon as possible through socio-educational measures, recommends that the Economic and Social Council urge Governments to ensure greater protection and humane treatment of those children and youth while in prison and youth detention centres, and to provide them with socio-educational measures for their rehabilitation.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 128
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the Economic and Social Council, the relevant United Nations cooperating agencies and Governments of the region provide technical facilities and grant the necessary political and moral support for organizing:

(a) The Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas, to be held in Lima in March 2004;

(b) The Second Continental Conference of Indigenous Women of Africa, to be held in Nairobi, 2003;

(c) The Second Conference of Asian Indigenous Women, to be held in 2004.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women