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Addressee: UNPFII

Paragraph Number: 154
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum intends to develop a working practice for its next session that will engage the Youth Caucus more actively in its work.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth

Addressee: UNICEF

Paragraph Number: 113
Session: 6 (2007)
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Considering the family separations caused by migration, and the psychological impact on men, children and women left behind, the Permanent Forum recommends that UNICEF:(a)Conduct a comprehensive study on the effects of remittances and the psychosocial and cultural impact of migrations;(b)Promote programmes to ensure continuity between countries of origin and destination in order to ensure continuity in indigenous children’s relationships with their migrant parents and the protection of migrant children;(c)Support programmes for the protection of the rights of men, children and women left behind.

Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 82
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Government of Paraguay should give priority, in its emergency plans, to the protection of vulnerable indigenous children from practices of forced labour and other forms of exploitation.

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