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The Permanent Forum is pleased to note that indigenous peoples and their organizations increasingly avail themselves of the human rights procedures of the Human Rights Council and the international human rights instruments, and the increasing visibility of indigenous peoples’ issues within those mechanisms. In that regard, the Forum recommends that OHCHR continue to disseminate information and to conduct capacity-building activities on the United Nations human rights mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights.
Responses
The Office continues to strengthen the capacity-building of indigenous representatives regarding human rights mechanisms through its fellowship programme. In 2007, a total of 19 participants (11 women and 8 men) participated in the programme. They were from 15 different countries, including Cameroon, Ukraine, Finland, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Ecuador, Chad, Morocco, Algeria, the Congo and the Russian Federation. Some parts of the programme have been reinforced, in particular the Russian-speaking programme, with a training session of an additional two weeks duration organized by the OHCHR presence in Moscow in cooperation with the United Nations country team.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 6 (2007)
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