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Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that United Nations bodies, in particular the Convention on Biological Diversity, in coordination with the World Bank, UNDP, FAO and IFAD, and UNEP, organize a workshop on protecting sacred places and ceremonial sites of indigenous peoples with a view to identifying protective mechanisms and instituting a legal framework that make cultural, environmental and social impact assessments studies mandatory and ensure the environmental accountability of economic, social and environmental projects that are proposed to be conducted on sacred sites and on lands, territories and waters traditionally occupied or used by indigenous peoples.

Area of Work: Environment
Paragraph Number: 128
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the Economic and Social Council, the relevant United Nations cooperating agencies and Governments of the region provide technical facilities and grant the necessary political and moral support for organizing:

(a) The Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas, to be held in Lima in March 2004;

(b) The Second Continental Conference of Indigenous Women of Africa, to be held in Nairobi, 2003;

(c) The Second Conference of Asian Indigenous Women, to be held in 2004.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women

Addressee: CSW/DAW, SPFII

Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Secretary-General, in his report on the study of violence against women, address the particular situation of indigenous women and girls whose suffering is based not only on gender but also on ethnicity and culture.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls

Addressee: SPFII, DESA

Paragraph Number: 128
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues requests the Coordinator of the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People to submit a report to the Permanent Forum at its annual sessions regarding progress on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (A/60/270, sect. II) and invites States, the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations, and indigenous peoples and other non-governmental organizations to provide information to the Coordinator.

Area of Work: Second Decade

Addressee: SPFII

Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Secretary-General, in his report on the study of violence against women, address the particular situation of indigenous women and girls whose suffering is based not only on gender but also on ethnicity and culture.

Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls