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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 5 (2006)
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States are urged to allocate budgets in order to implement quality services to reduce maternal mortality and ensure indigenous women’s access to reproductive health services.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to expand opportunities to enable indigenous women to participate actively in the political life of the country in which they live. The Forum also urges States to ensure the safety of indigenous women who are defending the rights of their peoples and territories and to prosecute those persons involved in incidents of violence against them.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Commission on Sustainable Development
Paragraph Number: 29
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that immediate steps be taken within the framework of the Commission on Sustainable Development to protect water from privatization and from bilateral and multilateral governmental agreements and other incursions that affect the integrity of waters and impoverish communities, particularly indigenous women. The Forum recommends that the Commission appoint a special rapporteur for the protection of water to gather testimony directly from indigenous communities of the world impacted by or targeted for water privatization, diversion, toxic contamination, pollution, commodification and other environmental injustices that damage natural and potable water supplies
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Indigenous Women
