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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: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 63
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF operationalize and implement its strategic framework on indigenous and minority children and report to the Forum in 2012 on measures undertaken to that end.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Cooperation

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