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The Permanent Forum requests that States incorporate commitments made in the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples into the development of the post-2015 development agenda, especially the action points on data disaggregation, land rights, traditional knowledge, the implementation of free, prior and informed consent and access to justice presented by indigenous speakers in the thematic panels during the high-level stocktaking event, and reaffirm their commitments to indigenous peoples in the political declaration of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, with the following paragraph: We affirm that indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development, based on their security, of their lands, territories and resources. We commit ourselves to ensuring equal access to high-quality education that recognizes the diversity of the cultures of indigenous peoples, and to health, housing, water, sanitation and other economic and social programmes to improve their well-being, including through initiatives, policies and the provision of resources. We intend to empower indigenous peoples, including women, to deliver such programmes and commit ourselves to working with indigenous peoples to disaggregate data on indigenous peoples’ development and well-being.
Responses
• The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development resolution (A/RES/70/1) refers to indigenous peoples 6 times. It has an overall focus on universality, equality, human rights, environmental sustainability and “leaving no one behind” - though not including the exact language suggested by PFII in recommendation 10. • Some Permanent Forum Members engaged strongly in the consultation process towards the 2030 Agenda to advocate for indigenous priorities. The engagement include meeting with and sending letters to the co-chairs of the post-2015 negotiations as well as attending the intergovernmental negotiations 25-27 March, the Sustainable Development Summit 25-27 September and the Inter Agency Support Group on SDGs meeting in Bangkok 27-28 October 2015. The PFII Members worked closely with the Major Group on Indigenous Peoples, other Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations as well as various UN agencies to promote indigenous priorities, primarily collective rights – which were finally included in the indicator list that was adopted by the Statistical Commission on 11 March 2016. • The 2015 Third Committee Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/RES/70/232) also picked up on some of the issues in the recommendations made by the PFII. It includes 3 paragraphs related to ensuring that indigenous peoples are not left behind in the 2030 Agenda (paragraphs 11, 14 and 15): on data disaggregation and reporting, on implementation of 2030 Agenda with respect to indigenous peoples’ rights and with a special invitation to the three UN mechanism pertaining to indigenous peoples to engage in the 2030 Agenda.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 14 (2015)
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