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Addressee: Asamblea del Pueblo Guaraní de Boliva (APG)
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 9 (2010)
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The Permanent Forum encourages APG to continue to defend in a cooperative and constructive manner, the principles of self-determination and free, prior and informed consent in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which the Plurinational State of Bolivia has incorporated into its domestic law and applied through its Constitution
Area of Work: Human rights
Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 10 (2011)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that UNICEF allocate at least one fellowship to an indigenous young person from each region every year for a term of at least three months, to empower indigenous youth and promote knowledge and experience regarding the United Nations system and the work of the Fund, and including financial support.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Colombia, Ecuador
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Governments of Colombia and Ecuador to take immediate action to protect the indigenous peoples whose territories are in the border area between the two countries. The Forum encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples to work with the two Governments to address this situation in close cooperation with the indigenous communities concerned.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources
Addressee: IPOs, IP
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum, noting the significance for indigenous peoples of the negotiations under way at WIPO on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, strongly encourages representatives of indigenous peoples to participate in those negotiations, consistent with article 18 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: World Health Assembly
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum, bearing in mind the contributions of indigenous peoples’ traditional medicines to the recovery from the pandemic, invites the World Health Assembly to declare an international year of indigenous peoples’ traditional medicines by 2025.
Area of Work: Health
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 22 (2023)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the work of the Indigenous Coordinating Body for Enhanced Participation in the United Nations in furthering the objectives of resolution 71/321 and agrees on the need to establish a new and distinct status for Indigenous Peoples’ participation at the General Assembly. It also welcomes the organization in November 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of the expert workshop on enhanced participation in the Human Rights Council. The Permanent Forum looks forward to reading the report and the recommendations from the workshop when they are submitted to the Human Rights Council prior to its fifty-third session. The Permanent Forum calls upon the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly to ensure further progress on this vital matter. The Permanent Forum encourages Member States to financially support the work of the Indigenous Coordinating Body.
Area of Work: Enhanced Participation at the UN
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Pan American Health Organization and all regional United Nations health entities ensure that their mandates address the rights of Indigenous Peoples, separate from minority, diversity and intercultural approaches, in compliance with the Declaration and the WHO resolution on Indigenous health.
Area of Work: Health, Human Rights
