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Paragraph Number: 23
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that corporations, regulating bodies and certification bodies incorporate the rights of indigenous peoples in their quality standards, operating plans, business plans and investment plans.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UNDP
Paragraph Number: 046 (Session 9 Appendix)
Session: 8 (2009)
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In order to fully address the fact that indigenous peoples lag behind in terms of the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, it will be necessary for UNDP to strengthen its policies to integrate human rights and indigenous peoples’ issues into all projects that affect indigenous peoples, in particular with regard to strategies and tools aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: United Nations Country Teams of Bolivia and Paraguay, Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay
Paragraph Number: 94
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum notes the mission to Bolivia and Paraguay and thanks the Governments of both countries for their invitations. This mission came about following the Forum’s recommendation regarding the situation of forced labour of Guarani communities at its seventh session. The Permanent Forum welcomes the mission as a good practice and decides to publish the reports of the mission as official documents. The Forum urges United Nations country teams to follow up the recommendations of these reports and suggests to the relevant Governments that they report on the implementation of these recommendations at the ninth session of the Forum in 2010.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
