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Addressee: UN system
Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 11 (2012)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum welcomes with appreciation the decision of the General Assembly, in its resolution 66/141, to request that the Secretary-General submit to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a comprehensive report on the rights of the child, including a focus on indigenous children. The Forum wishes to take part in any initiative undertaken by the Secretary-General in preparing the comprehensive report on the rights of the child.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UN system
Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 4 (2005)
Full Text:
United Nations agencies should provide incentives and funding opportunities for indigenous youth organizations to initiate non-formal education activities targeting girls and women. Where initiatives already exist, they should develop replication strategies and scale up existing initiatives
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
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
