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Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 19
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:

The Forum, taking into account the large number of incarcerated indigenous children and youth and the need to assist them in reintegrating into society as soon as possible through socio-educational measures, recommends that the Economic and Social Council urge Governments to ensure greater protection and humane treatment of those children and youth while in prison and youth detention centres, and to provide them with socio-educational measures for their rehabilitation.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth

Addressee: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 10
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:

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