Welcome to the United Nations
Displaying 85 - 96 of 130
Addressee: IOM
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum welcomes the initiative of IOM to establish a coordination mechanism for combating the trafficking of indigenous women and girls.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum urges States to intensify efforts at the national level to implement Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 on women, peace and security, including through national action plans that pay special attention to indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: UN system, States/Government
Paragraph Number: 45
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
Redefining the Millennium Development Goals provides an opportunity to incorporate into the Goals the concerns of indigenous peoples, particularly indigenous women. The Goals offer a strategic framework within which to fully integrate the goals of the Platform for Action, which provides an important human rights-based approach to the development agenda for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women, including indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: CSW/DAW, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that the Secretary-General, in his report on the study of violence against women, address the particular situation of indigenous women and girls whose suffering is based not only on gender but also on ethnicity and culture.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: UN System, Member States
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
United Nations organizations and States should pay special attention to the specific situation and needs of elderly indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: UN System
Paragraph Number: 34
Session: 13 (2014)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that United Nations agencies convene a high-level meeting with representatives of indigenous women to review the commitments and actions for securing the human rights of indigenous women highlighted in articles 21, 22 and 41 of the Declaration.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Cooperation
Addressee: UNW, PFII
Paragraph Number: 35
Session: 13 (2014)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum underscores the need to strengthen collaboration with UN-Women in order to finalize a road map, including concrete actions, and specific outcomes within their next strategic plan as well as to include indigenous women’s priorities in global, regional and national programmes, consistent with articles 21, 22 and 41 of the Declaration.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Cooperation
Addressee: UN agencies, funds and programmes
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
Owing to the cross-cutting nature of gender equality, it is also critical that gender perspectives be fully integrated into the implementation and monitoring of all the other objectives associated with the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, MDGs
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 13 (2014)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum takes note of the under the auspices of a steering committee consisting of the Women's Refugee Commission, Equality Now, Equal Rights Trust, Tilburg University, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). The Forum therefore calls upon those Member States whose constitutional provisions and legislation require review, as a matter of urgency, to support this global campaign, consistent with the Declaration and the rights of indigenous women highlighted in articles 21 and 22. (Corrigendum. E/2014/43/Corr.1-E/C.19/2014/11/Corr.1)
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls, Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States, UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 30
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
As a means of redefining approaches, countries with indigenous peoples are urged to incorporate the issues and challenges specifically faced by indigenous peoples directly into the framework of the Millennium Development Goal reports by: (a) including indigenous peoples within the context of the overall report; (b) including indigenous peoples in the context of meeting each specific goal; (c) including indigenous peoples in the planning of the overall report and each individual goal; and (d) including indigenous peoples’ effective participation in the planning process of future interventions, and in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes and projects that will directly or indirectly affect them.
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: States, UN agencies, IPOs
Paragraph Number: 4
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
During the dialogue with indigenous peoples on the Millennium Development Goals, many indigenous organizations made statements about the urgent need to redefine the Goals. While the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues appreciates that it may not be possible to redefine the Goals, it also recognizes that there is a clear need to redefine approaches to the implementation of the Goals so as to include the perspectives, concerns, experiences and world views of indigenous peoples. Statements also confirmed that there was a need for indigenous peoples to provide their own definitions of poverty and development and that there should be full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in the implementation of the Goals.
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 8
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum urges developed countries to adopt national processes to implement the Goals with the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples within those countries.
Area of Work: MDGs
