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Addressee: International organizations, indigenous youth organizations, academia and other stakeholders
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the launch of the publication Global Indigenous Youth: Through their Eyes by the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. The Forum recommends that international organizations, indigenous youth organizations, academia and other stakeholders undertake similar initiatives to raise awareness on the challenges facing indigenous young people.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum requests: a. That each United Nations agency and organization make the Forum’s recommendations formally available to its governing body, assembly or other relevant high-level committee or organ, drawing particular attention to the recommendations specifically addressed to the organization or body concerned;
b. That Member States take into account the recommendations of the Forum in developing policies on the governing bodies of organizations to which they are members.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes the instrumental role of the Indigenous Peoples’ Centre for Documentation, Research and Information in providing essential services to indigenous peoples and encourages United Nations bodies and agencies to facilitate the work of indigenous delegates representing indigenous peoples within the United Nations system by establishing partnerships with the Centre, and to facilitate its financing.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: WIPO
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the World Intellectual Property Organization Committee continue to cooperate, where relevant, with other organizations and agencies within the United Nations system, such as the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Area of Work: Culture
Addressee: Statistics Division, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 5 (2006)
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Recalling the Workshop on Data Collection and Disaggregation for Indigenous Peoples (see E/C.19/2004/2 for the report of the Workshop), the Permanent Forum welcomes the ongoing collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division in reviewing national practices in data collection and dissemination in the areas of ethnicity, language and religion. In the light of this work, as well as of the 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme, the Permanent Forum reiterates its support to the Statistics Division as expressed in the report of the Permanent Forum on its fourth session and its recommendations contained in paragraphs 80 and 81of that report.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 20 (2021)
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The Permanent Forum invites UNESCO to create, in cooperation with academic institutions and indigenous peoples’ institutions, a universal digital platform in which digital resources for indigenous languages can be created, stored and made available to indigenous peoples and researchers in order to preserve linguistic diversity.
Area of Work: International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032)
Addressee: World Bank
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Forum notes with concern the unsatisfactory implementation of the World Bank’s policy on indigenous peoples, as documented by many of the Bank’s internal reviews, most notably the 2011 internal review report and the 2010 report by the Independent Evaluation Group, Safeguards and Sustainability Policies in a Changing World. Strict adherence to safeguards of indigenous peoples’ rights is necessary. The Forum recommends that efforts be directed towards compliance machinery within the Bank, both up front, when dealing with projects and design and approval processes, and in post-project enforcement mechanisms.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: World Bank
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum calls on the World Bank to activate the 2005 Extractive Industries Review in order to address the impact and legacy of extractive industries on indigenous lands, territories and resources.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Artic Council
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon the Arctic Council to provide the indigenous permanent participants in the Council with adequate financial resources, enabling them to effectively participate in all relevant activities of the Council.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum recommends to Member States that the development agenda beyond 2015 adopt a human rights-based approach to development that takes into account issues of equity and sustainability and that incorporates an indigenous holistic concept of development with culture and identity. The Forum also recommends that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples constitute the normative framework of this work.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, MDGs
Addressee: SCBD
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends the establishment of an international ethical code on bio-prospecting in order to avoid bio-piracy and ensure the respect for indigenous cultural and intellectual heritage. Under the framework of the Convention, a mechanism should be established for the repatriation and devolution of genetic materials collections to indigenous peoples. The Forum recommends to the Convention secretariat that the global taxonomy initiative incorporate an ethical principles and social framework for the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands, traditional knowledge and resources before its implementation.
Area of Work: Environment
Addressee: Member States, UN Systems/UN Agencies
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the following reports: (a)“Cultural indicators for food security, food sovereignty and sustainable development”, from the second Global Consultation on the Right to Food, Food Security and Food Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples, held in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, from 7 to 9 September 2006;(b) The Latin America and the Caribbean regional meeting on indicators, held in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua in September 2006;(c)Meeting on indigenous peoples and indicators of well-being; Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, Ottawa, 22 and 23 March 2006; (d)Asia Regional Workshop on Indicators Relevant for Indigenous Peoples, Convention on Biological Diversity and Millennium Development Goals, Mindoro Oriental, Philippines, November 2006;(e)African Regional Expert Workshop on Indicators of Well-being and Indigenous Peoples, Nairobi, November 2006.--The Permanent Forum further recommends that United Nations agencies, Member States and indigenous peoples utilize these indicators and support further efforts to develop them and to test some of these indicators in some countries.
Area of Work: Environment
