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Addressee: Member States, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 130
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum expresses its concern about the continuing and long-term negative impacts of large dams on indigenous peoples in many parts of the world. Many large dams continue to be planned for construction on indigenous lands. The Permanent Forum supports the implementation of the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams contained in its report Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-making. The implementation of these recommendations must be in accordance with the provisions set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum invites all organizations of the United Nations system and other multilateral organizations, including the Bretton Woods institutions and international and regional financial institutions, to contribute to the implementation of the outcomes of the World Conference and to integrate them into their programmes of work, as appropriate and in accordance with their respective mandates, in full cooperation with indigenous peoples at the national, subregional, regional and global levels.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: United Nations Secretariat
Paragraph Number: 125
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum urges the United Nations Secretariat to protect the privileges and immunities of members of the Forum and recommends that immediate action be taken to address any reported incidents.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Indigenous Parliamentarians
Paragraph Number: 141
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the participation at its sixth session of indigenous parliamentarians from, inter alia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Greenland, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and encourages indigenous parliamentarians to continue participating at future sessions in their own capacity, with designated seating arrangements.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
Paragraph Number: 5
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum requests that its secretariat prepare a report on the implementation of the recommendations made, to be submitted to the Forum at its eleventh session, in 2012. The report should analyse the challenges as well as the associated factors that United Nations agencies and funds, Member States and indigenous peoples’ organizations have faced.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: UN system entities, Member States
Paragraph Number: 17
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum expresses its readiness to examine existing practices and
ways of developing various forms of administrative and territorial autonomy for
indigenous peoples’ communities whose representatives lead a traditional, nomadic
way of life, as part of the development of the guiding principles on indigenous
peoples’ autonomy and self-government as recommended in the study on indigenous
peoples’ autonomies: experiences and perspectives (E/C.19/2020/5). Such work will
be conducted by an online working group of the Permanent Forum. Indigenous
peoples’ organizations, representative decision-making bodies and institutions,
together with United Nations system entities, Member States and other stakeholders,
are invited to contribute financially and practically and to take an active part in the
work of the working group.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States, UN system, IP
Paragraph Number: 76
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the importance of preparatory processes at all levels for bringing different perspectives to the World Conference and building a spirit of partnership, inclusion and respect, and calls upon Member States, indigenous peoples and United Nations organizations, funds and programmes to work together at the national, regional and international levels.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that United Nations funds and programmes and specialized agencies actively engage in the process leading up to the World Conference by prioritizing the development of concrete ways to support the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in the World Conference, including technical and financial support.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: FAO
Paragraph Number: 91
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum also appreciates the work of FAO, in collaboration with the Forum, on including the issues of indigenous peoples in the Committee on World Food Security and recommends that FAO continue to collaborate with the Forum to open up spaces for dialogue and participation in other technical committees, such as those on forestry, fisheries and agriculture.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: United Nations Country Teams of Bolivia and Paraguay, Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum notes the mission to Bolivia and Paraguay and thanks the Governments of both countries for their invitations. This mission came about following the Forum’s recommendation regarding the situation of forced labour of Guarani communities at its seventh session. The Permanent Forum welcomes the mission as a good practice and decides to publish the reports of the mission as official documents. The Forum urges United Nations country teams to follow up the recommendations of these reports and suggests to the relevant Governments that they report on the implementation of these recommendations at the ninth session of the Forum in 2010.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: SPFII
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum requests that the secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues publish a second volume of the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, containing a section on development with culture and identity based on information from indigenous peoples’ organizations, United Nations agencies and States.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators, Methods of Work
Addressee: UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 136
Session: 4 (2005)
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With a view to strengthening collaboration during the intersessional period, and further developing expert recommendations to member organizations of the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues, the Forum decides to increase visits by its members to these entities to carry out an in-depth analysis of the programs, activities and operations at the international, regional and national levels
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
