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Addressee: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 73
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF design, in partnership with other relevant United Nations agencies, a protocol for emergency situations resulting from natural disasters to ensure that, in cases of emergency, there are no violations of the human rights of indigenous peoples, especially indigenous youth, children and women, owing to forced relocation.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Indigenous Women and Girls, Human rights
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Forum urges indigenous organizations to make more effective use of existing international human rights monitoring instruments, such as the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and to bring communications to their attention regarding claims of violence of different forms against indigenous women, to ensure States take steps to end the persistent and unaddressed violence, including murders and disappearances of indigenous women.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women