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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, UNFPA

Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 10 (2011)
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In support of their country-level programming, and with a view to a deeper appreciation of indigenous peoples’ perceptions of such interventions, UNICEF and UNFPA should undertake a study on the social, cultural, legal and spiritual institutions of indigenous peoples and how these affect the rights of women and children as laid out in local, regional and global frameworks.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 65
Session: 6 (2007)
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Calling attention to the high rates of suicide among indigenous youth in some countries, the Permanent Forum reiterates its call for States and relevant national aboriginal health bodies to convene a meeting to assess the root causes of indigenous youth suicide and to formulate preventive strategies. The Forum reiterates its call on UNICEF and WHO to convene a meeting on youth suicide.

Area of Work: Health, Indigenous Children and Youth