The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation that Member States review and revise their constitutions and legal frameworks to comprehensively recognize the rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the right to self-determination. Such review and revision processes should be driven and guided by Indigenous Peoples. The Forum also recommends that Member States develop and adopt specific national action plans to ensure that all policies and laws conform with the recognition and advancement of the right to self-determination, including self-governance and autonomy. The Forum further recommends that States engage in processes focused on decolonization and reconciliation policies that facilitate the path of Indigenous Peoples to self-determination, with the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples.
The Permanent Forum welcomes the progress made by OHCHR in translating Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women general recommendation No. 39 (2022) into Aymara, Nahuatl, Moxeño Trinitario, Q’eqchi, Kaqchikel and Guaraní, and calls upon OHCHR to continue to expand its efforts to translate the recommendation into Indigenous languages throughout the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, before the end of 2032.