Addressee: SPFII

Paragraph #68Session #8 (2009)

Full Text

The Permanent Forum welcomes the study entitled “Indigenous peoples and boarding schools: a comparative study” prepared by a consultant for the secretariat of the Forum and requests that it be made available as a document of the ninth session of the Forum in all official languages of the United Nations and that it be widely disseminated. The Forum decides in particular to transmit the study to UNESCO, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, the Human Rights Council expert mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Committee the Rights of the Child and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Responses

Document E/C.19/2010/11 entitled Indigenous peoples and boarding schools: a comparative study, has been prepared and issued as formal documentation of the ninth session of the Permanent Forum.

Final Report of UNPFII Session 8 (2009)

Area of Work

Education