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Addressee: DESA, OHCHR
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), facilitate a series of online regional meetings in 2023 to discuss the development of standards and redress mechanisms for conservation programmes that affect indigenous peoples’ lands, territories and waters. The dialogue should include the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum, indigenous peoples’ representatives, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other stakeholders. The Permanent Forum would welcome a presentation of the outcomes of such a meeting at its twenty-third session, to be held in 2024.
Responses
OHCHR developed a series of information materials to raise awareness of the human rights impacts of climate change and environmental harms. The materials highlight OHCHR’s key messages and recommendations regarding human rights, climate change, the environment, and related issues, drawing attention to the specific situation of indigenous peoples. The Office also launched several other knowledge products, including the following:
· Advancing a rights-based approach to climate change resilience and migration in the Sahel
· Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs): A Toolkit for Practitioners
· Human rights implications of COVID-19 measures in the context of Climate Change
· Advancing a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Climate Negotiations: Key Messages of the UN Environment Management Group Issue Management Group on Human Rights and the Environment
Final Report of UNPFII Session 21 (2022)
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