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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 5 (2006)
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States are urged to allocate budgets in order to implement quality services to reduce maternal mortality and ensure indigenous women’s access to reproductive health services.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to expand opportunities to enable indigenous women to participate actively in the political life of the country in which they live. The Forum also urges States to ensure the safety of indigenous women who are defending the rights of their peoples and territories and to prosecute those persons involved in incidents of violence against them.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: CSW
Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 15 (2016)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the intention of the Commission on the Status of Women to make the issue of the empowerment of indigenous women a focus area of its sixty-first session, to be held in 2017. The Forum invites the Bureau of the Commission to consider organizing a half-day session on the issue. The Forum calls upon the Commission to consider the empowerment of indigenous women as a theme in future sessions, pursuant to paragraph 19 of General Assembly resolution 69/2.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
