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The Forum recognizes and applauds other indigenous fellowship programmes, in particular the fellowship programme established and funded by the regular budget of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the newly established fellowship programme of the ILO. Furthermore, the Forum particularly recognizes the capacity-building efforts of the indigenous fellowship programme of the Office and requests that, in order to complement their Geneva based training, the indigenous fellows at the Office should participate, on an annual basis, in the sessions of the Forum. Further consideration should also be given to provide some time for training at the secretariat of the Forum, during non-sessional periods.
Responses
OHCHR reports that 10 indigenous fellows in the English- and Spanish-speaking programmes participated in the fifth session of the Permanent Forum in 2006. The Russian- and French-speaking programmes did not participate in the session since those programmes tend to be held in the second half of the year. Thanks to collaboration with the University of Deusto, the Spanish-speaking programme conducted a training session at the secretariat of the Forum. Owing to financial limitations, the English-speaking programme could not conduct the training and requests the Permanent Forum to help fund such training in the future.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 3 (2004)
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