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Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 117
Session: 23 (2024)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum encourages United Nations entities that have platforms for Indigenous Peoples to continue to contribute to the deliberations of the Forum, including through the submission of conference room papers to further update the Forum. The Forum reiterates the importance of the sustained and consistent engagement of Indigenous Peoples at every stage of decision-making across the United Nations.
Area of Work: Participation, Cooperation
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 135
Session: 23 (2024)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States strengthen and implement legal and institutional frameworks that recognize and protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples to their lands, territories and resources and ensure their participation in decision-making processes. Such frameworks should adhere to the Declaration and Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization, ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent when development, environment, biodiversity and climate change programmes and projects are conducted on their lands and territories.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Climate Change, Economic and Social Development, Participation
