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Paragraph Number: 31
Session: 20 (2021)
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Member States must urgently address violence against indigenous peoples, including State violence, gender-based violence, forced assimilation and forced child removals, discrimination in the justice system and other forms of discrimination, including discrimination based on gender, religion, disability, age and LGBTIQ identity. The Forum encourages the Expert Mechanism, at its earliest convenience, to engage with the Governments of Australia and New Zealand, and with the participation of indigenous peoples, regarding the removal of indigenous children.
Area of Work: Human rights, Indigenous Women and Girls, Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 84
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes progress made by the funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system in continuing to implement the system-wide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples and recommends the continuation and expansion of this work by conducting an analysis, led by the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, of the Forum’s recommendations, with the aim of identifying best practices, gaps and challenges, and by exploring ways to implement outstanding recommendations by 2021.
Area of Work: SWAP
