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Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 16
Session: 14 (2015)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations Children’s Fund develop and adopt a comprehensive and distinct policy on indigenous children and young people, taking into account the human rights affirmed in the United Nations Declaration and in consultation and collaboration with indigenous peoples and indigenous children and youth organizations in particular.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UNFPA
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 18 (2019)
Full Text:
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
Paragraph Number: 16
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:
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: Member States
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 8 (2009)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that all States apply the principles of general comment No. 11 (2009) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, entitled “Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention”.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Human Rights
Addressee: Envoy of the Secretary-General on Youth
Paragraph Number: 17
Session: 14 (2015)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that the Envoy of the Secretary-General on Youth, in cooperation with indigenous young people, urgently address self-harm and suicide among indigenous young people and invites him to inform the Forum on progress in that regard at its fifteenth session.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 17
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:
The Forum invites the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, within the purview of his mandate, to pay special attention to and make recommendations concerning the rights of indigenous children.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
