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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 166
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that States include ethnic identification in vital statistics and health records, allocate more funding for intercultural services that ensure indigenous women’s access to quality health care, including emergency obstetric care, voluntary family planning and skilled attendants at delivery, and that the role of traditional midwives be strengthened and extended.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators, Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: OHCHR, ILO and UNDP.
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 9 (2010)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), ILO and UNDP to strengthen their collaborative framework and partnership for the promotion and implementation of indigenous peoples’ rights through joint country programmes aimed at building capacity and establishing mechanisms for consultation, participation and consent in accordance with ILO Convention C169 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human rights
