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Addressee: IASG, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 12 (2013)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum reiterates that the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues constitutes a key forum for the achievement of more effective coordination and coherence in supporting the preparations for and the participation of indigenous peoples in the World Conference and recommends stronger engagement and the participation of all agencies, programmes and funds in the work of the Group.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 10 (2011)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Myrna Cunningham and Alvaro Pop to prepare jointly with UNICEF a report on the situation of indigenous children in Latin America and the Caribbean and to present it to the Forum at its eleventh session.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: World Bank, UNICEF, ILO
Paragraph Number: 15
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:
Aware of the massive exodus of indigenous youth to the alien environments of cities around the world and the discrimination, socio-economic hardships, weakened family networks and drug abuse, inter alia, affecting those youngsters and "street children", the Forum requests the World Bank, the ILO and UNICEF to conduct an in-depth comparative study of legal frameworks and social programmes addressing indigenous urban youth in selected countries. The study should assess key problems and best practices and should provide recommendations for the formulation of policies and strategies for future action.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: United Nations
Paragraph Number: 15
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum also calls on the United Nations to ensure the active participation of indigenous peoples at the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, to be held in September 2010.
Area of Work: Cooperation, Methods of Work
