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Paragraph Number: 71
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum requests the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues and, specifically, those agencies working on land tenure and changes in land use, to step up cooperation in order to operationalize indicators on land tenure and changes in land use pertaining to the traditional territories (lands and waters) of indigenous peoples, as a global multipurpose indicator in order to report on status and trends, in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. All relevant funds, programmes and specialized agencies should update the Forum every year on the results of this work.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 35
Session: 21 (2022)
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Recognizing the central role of public and indigenous peoples’ education
systems, the Permanent Forum recommends that Member States collect disaggregated
data, within the next two years, on the number of indigenous students who attend
kindergartens, small ungraded schools, nomadic schools and boarding schools across
the regions to secure opportunities for children to remain in their communities.
Area of Work: Education
Addressee: IFAD
Paragraph Number: 71
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum encourages the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to continue its efforts in operationalizing the principle of free, prior and informed consent in its investments, including through the engagement of indigenous experts in project delivery teams.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Addressee: Member States; UN entities; WHO
Paragraph Number: 35
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the study on Indigenous determinants of health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (E/C.19/2023/5), presented at its twenty-second session. The Permanent Forum calls upon Member States and United Nations entities, particularly WHO, to adopt indigeneity as an overarching determinant of health, including in relation to the relevant Sustainable Development Goals and in policies and practices across the United Nations system.
Area of Work: Health, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Addressee: USA; Canada
Paragraph Number: 35
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates that the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline jeopardizes the Great Lakes and poses a real and credible threat to the human rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States. The Forum reiterates its call for Canada and the United States to decommission Line 5.
Area of Work: Human Rights
Addressee: OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 71
Session: 23 (2024)
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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.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages
Paragraph Number: 143
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum fully endorses the enhanced participation of Indigenous Peoples and their representative institutions at the General Assembly and looks forward to the Human Rights Council intersessional meetings with the participation of Indigenous Peoples from all seven sociocultural regions. The Permanent Forum welcomes the appointment of Robert Rae, Víctor García Toma, Claire Winfield Ngamihi Charters and Belkacem Lounes to lead consultations during the seventyeighth session of the General Assembly on the enhanced participation of Indigenous Peoples and their representative institutions. The Forum recommends that the Assembly and the Council ensure the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples in these processes and calls upon Member States to financially support the Indigenous Coordinating Body for Enhanced Participation in the United Nations.
Area of Work: Enhanced Participation at the UN
