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Addressee: Member States of Amazon region, OHCHR, UN Environment Programme, UNDP, FAO, ILO
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Given increased violence against indigenous peoples in the Amazon region, the Permanent Forum urges the Member States of the region to take urgent, extraordinary and coordinated measures to protect the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, with the aim of maintaining their ownership and use of their territories. The Forum also calls upon the United Nations system and specialized agencies, including OHCHR, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and ILO, to support Member States in the protection of indigenous peoples’ habitats and cultures in the Amazon region in cooperation with indigenous peoples.
Responses
In 2021, UN WOMEN Ecuador: elaborated a Gender and Climate Change National Action Plan for the Amazonian region. More information (https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2021/5/feature-women-in-ecuador…); UNDP and UN-REDD have contributed to the works and indigenous participation of the LICPP with regards to forest solutions and climate action, UNDP has collaborated with the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC) FAO: recommendation addressed but not completed UNESCO: Ethno-Mapping of the Biosphere Reserve of the Amazon
Final Report of UNPFII Session 20 (2021)
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