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Addressee: Member States, UN-Habitat, UN system/UN agencies
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The Permanent Forum urges States, United Nations agencies and indigenous peoples’ organizations to collaborate with UN-Habitat and other United Nations agencies in their development of policy guidelines for local authorities on urban indigenous issues.
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The Government of Mexico reports: 23. As a result of the growing awareness and recognition of the rights of migrant and city-dwelling indigenous peoples, policies have been undertaken to afford indigenous populations in cities access to basic needs and courses and workshops have been organized for public servants that deal with the importance of recognizing migrant and urban indigenous people as people with rights who must receive the priority attention required by their high social, economic and identity vulnerability. Special mention should be made of the study entitled “Internal migration and urbanization. Indigenous population in urban centres”, which was distributed to all state delegations and all CDI Coordination Centres for Indigenous Development, to promote concrete actions aimed at this sector of the population.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 7 (2008)
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