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Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 10
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum welcomes the new initiatives undertaken by UNICEF with regard to indigenous children, in particular the ongoing development of a digest on the indigenous child, as well as a number of case studies aimed at understanding development programming to fulfill the rights of indigenous children. The Forum requests UNICEF to make the digest and the results of those studies available to the Forum at its third session.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
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
Addressee: Member States, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 93
Session: 4 (2005)
Full Text:
The Forum on Indigenous Issues 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, sexual exploitation, militarization, displacement, incarceration, labour and others
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 11 (2012)
Full Text:
Celebrating 22 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the first legally binding international instrument affirming human rights for all children, the Permanent Forum welcomes the adoption of the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, enabling individual claims and the use of the examination process, and urges States to accede to this important instrument regarding children in the most vulnerable situations, many of whom are indigenous, to allow them access to recourse and redress.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 154
Session: 6 (2007)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum intends to develop a working practice for its next session that will engage the Youth Caucus more actively in its work.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: FAO
Paragraph Number: 90
Session: 18 (2019)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum welcomes the results of the 2018 High-level Expert Seminar on Indigenous Food Systems, in particular the creation of an online global hub on indigenous food systems, and would like to recommend that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) continue work on: (a) Indigenous young people towards the creation of a forum on indigenous young people in the coming years; (b) Indigenous food systems, in particular in relation to the links with traditional knowledge, climate change and the respect of indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands, territories and resources; (c) Indigenous women (the global campaign on indigenous women and the leadership and food security schools for indigenous women).
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Human Rights
