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Addressee: UN Agencies
Paragraph Number: 117
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the call, made at its fifth and eleventh sessions, upon United Nations agencies and funds to conduct and support regional and international human rights training programmes aimed at building the capacity and advocacy skills of indigenous youth. The Forum further recommends the use of youth forums, social media and other popular cultural forms of communication to disseminate information and training material on the rights of indigenous youth and to facilitate consultation processes at the national and international levels.
Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Inter-Agency Support Group (IASG)
Paragraph Number: 7
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the Inter-Agency Support Group discuss how to promote the cross-cutting issue of children and youth.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UNICEF, UNESCO
Paragraph Number: 75
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF and UNESCO support intercultural and bilingual education programmes in conjunction with the indigenous peoples concerned, paying special attention to the right of girls to primary and secondary education.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Education
Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF prepare a report on the state of the world’s children, with a thematic focus on indigenous children. The report should give special attention to the implementation by Member States of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and general comment No. 11 (2009) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on indigenous children and their rights under the Convention. Furthermore, the Forum requests UNICEF to begin to disaggregate data on indigenous children, including from its existing database.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 12
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum welcomes the inclusion in the 2003 Ibero-American Summit of a focus on indigenous children, and recommends that UNICEF report to the Forum on the results of the Summit in that area, and to indicate how lessons can be learned and policy approaches improved concerning indigenous children in other parts of the world with indigenous peoples, specifically Asia and Africa.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 34
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to take the measures at the national level necessary for the prevention of self-harm and suicide among indigenous children and youth, in particular by promoting the training of experts in the field of psychology who focus on issues specific to indigenous peoples. Such special training should take into account economic, historical, social, ecological and other factors, such as the loss of indigenous languages, cultures and lands.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UN system
Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 4 (2005)
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United Nations agencies should provide incentives and funding opportunities for indigenous youth organizations to initiate non-formal education activities targeting girls and women. Where initiatives already exist, they should develop replication strategies and scale up existing initiatives
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 16
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the United Nations system, in particular UNICEF and WHO, in collaboration with Governments and in consultation with indigenous peoples’ organizations, and with the participation and input from the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, address issues related to the trafficking and sexual exploitation of indigenous girls, and urges States to create programmes of rehabilitation.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: SPFII, DESA, UN Programme on Youth
Paragraph Number: 101
Session: 7 (2008)
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A request of the UNPFII and the UN Youth Unit in DESA to continue facilitating the involvement of the Youth Caucus in its sessions.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UNFPA
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum encourages UNFPA to organize, in full cooperation with indigenous peoples, a global symposium on indigenous young people and women during the summit to be held Nairobi in November 2019 to advance the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development so that their key concerns are incorporated into the review and appraisal of the Programme of Action
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: UNICEF, WHO, Member States
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 6 (2007)
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Calling attention to the high rates of suicide among indigenous youth in some countries, the Permanent Forum reiterates its call for States and relevant national aboriginal health bodies to convene a meeting to assess the root causes of indigenous youth suicide and to formulate preventive strategies. The Forum reiterates its call on UNICEF and WHO to convene a meeting on youth suicide.
Area of Work: Health, Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UNICEF, ILO, UNESCO, UNHCR
Paragraph Number: 11
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that UNICEF, in cooperation with the ILO, UNESCO and UNHCR, report to the Forum at its fourth session on ways that the United Nations system can assist in capacity-building in that area.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
