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Addressee: UNFCCC
Paragraph Number: 47
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:
The Forum recommends that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change consider the possible establishment of an ad hoc open-ended intersessional working group on indigenous peoples and local communities and climate change, whose objectives would be to study and propose timely, effective and adequate solutions to respond to the urgent situations caused by climate change that indigenous peoples and local communities face. The Forum furthermore recommends that the Convention consider providing necessary funding support to Forum members and indigenous peoples to guarantee their participation and to strengthen their participation.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO, ILO, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNFPA and other United Nations bodies and Member States
Paragraph Number: 21
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:
The Forum recommends that UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO, the ILO, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNFPA and other United Nations bodies, in collaboration with Governments and in close coordination with indigenous peoples, prepare a Latin American conference of indigenous children and youth in 2004, taking into account the experience of the Subregional Conference of Indigenous Youth and Children, held in Quito in 2001.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
