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Addressee: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 77
Session: 10 (2011)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Myrna Cunningham and Alvaro Pop to prepare jointly with UNICEF a report on the situation of indigenous children in Latin America and the Caribbean and to present it to the Forum at its eleventh session.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth

Addressee: Member States

Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 11 (2012)
Full Text:

Celebrating 22 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the first legally binding international instrument affirming human rights for all children, the Permanent Forum welcomes the adoption of the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, enabling individual claims and the use of the examination process, and urges States to accede to this important instrument regarding children in the most vulnerable situations, many of whom are indigenous, to allow them access to recourse and redress.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth