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Paragraph Number: 51
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the secretariat of the Permanent Forum, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, UNDP and the United Nations Programme on Youth cooperate closely with the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus to conduct and support regional and international human rights training programmes to build the capacity and advocacy skills of indigenous youth.

Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Children and Youth

Addressee: Canada; USA

Paragraph Number: 124
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum calls on the Government of Canada to fully implement the recommendations emanating from its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Permanent Forum calls on the United States of America to formalize the establishment of a truth and reconciliation mechanism on the boarding school crisis.

Area of Work: Reconciliation

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 124
Session: 18 (2019)
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In the discussion on reconciliation and intergenerational trauma, there was agreement that healing requires a return to culture and a relationship with the land. The Permanent Forum recommends that Governments support programmes led by indigenous peoples to address intergenerational trauma as a way of moving towards true reconciliation.

Area of Work: Reconciliation, Intergenerational trauma