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Addressee: UN System, Member States
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 5 (2006)
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United Nations organizations and States should pay special attention to the specific situation and needs of elderly indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Commission on Human Rights
Paragraph Number: 7
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum recommends that the Commission on Human Rights appoint or designate a rapporteur to undertake a study on genocidal and ethnocidal practices perpetuated on indigenous peoples, including programmes for the sterilization of indigenous women and girls, the use of indigenous communities as subjects of nuclear testing or for the storage of nuclear waste and as subjects of the testing of unapproved drugs on indigenous women, children and peoples.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
