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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 98
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum also recommends to Member States that the development agenda beyond 2015 recognize, protect and strengthen indigenous peoples’ collective rights, in particular the right to land, territories and natural resources.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, MDGs
Paragraph Number: 98
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its previous recommendations that those States that have not already done so adopt or endorse, where applicable, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ILO Convention No. 169 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UNDP
Paragraph Number: 054 (Session 9 Appendix)
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum urges UNDP to further strengthen the right to self-determination of indigenous peoples by choosing indigenous peoples’ organizations as their implementing partners and responsible parties in their projects involving indigenous peoples, especially those with established track records in project implementation. As a corollary to the foregoing, government agencies created to promote and protect the rights and interests of indigenous peoples should be preferred as implementing partners in UNDP programming on indigenous peoples’ issues so that they can effectively perform their mandate
Area of Work: Human rights, Economic and Social Development
