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Addressee: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), ILO, UNDP, DESA

Paragraph Number: 9
Session: 3 (2004)
Full Text:

The Forum underlines the importance of technical cooperation and capacity-building programmes regarding and involving indigenous women, and in that respect recommends that such programmes conducted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, ILO, UNDP, among others, include projects regarding and involving indigenous women.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women
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Addressee: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 9
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:

The Forum is deeply concerned that particular problems and discrimination are faced by indigenous children and youth, including in the areas of education, health, culture, extreme poverty, mortality, incarceration, labour and other relevant areas. The Forum notes the need for new indicators to be developed by the United Nations that will specifically target those problems, and in that regard invites UNICEF to develop such new indicators and share them with other entities of the United Nations system, especially UNESCO.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth