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Addressee: UN
Paragraph Number: 47
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations system establish regional inter-agency working groups on Indigenous Peoples’ issues in regions that have not done so, in order to enable a coherent regional approach, similar to the approach taken in Latin America.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: Development Coordination Office
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum invites the Development Coordination Office to include Forum members in its future meetings with resident coordinators for Indigenous Peoples’ issues to be heard and to share experiences on the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the national level.
Area of Work: Participation, implementation
Addressee: World Bank
Paragraph Number: 45
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the World Bank strengthen platforms for dialogue with Indigenous Peoples at all levels to create strategic opportunities that will give a voice to Indigenous Peoples’ priorities and concerns. The Forum further calls upon the World Bank to enhance and expand direct financing mechanisms for Indigenous Peoples, specifically linking these to national programmes, policy dialogue, and investments for sustainability in all ecosystems.
Area of Work: Participation, Funding and Resources
Paragraph Number: 44
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum urges the States members of the World Intellectual Property Organization to ensure the full participation of Indigenous People, including developing safeguards to protect their knowledge and adopting a treaty to protect Indigenous Peoples’ genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge and medicine, at the Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge to be held in 2024.
Area of Work: Participation, Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: FAO; Global Indigenous Youth Forum
Paragraph Number: 43
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the 2023 Indigenous youth Rome Declaration on Safeguarding Seven Generations in times of Food, Social, and Ecological Crisis that resulted from the second session of the Global Indigenous Youth Forum organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Forum encourages FAO and the Global Indigenous Youth Forum to hold regional consultations in all seven Indigenous regions before the third session of the Global Indigenous Youth Forum in 2025
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 42
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum urges United Nations entities to strengthen and facilitate the engagement of Indigenous youth in decision-making processes across all United Nations processes. Initiatives should focus on mentorship, capacity-building, knowledge exchange and the creation of advisory roles specific to Indigenous youth and Indigenous youth caucuses that facilitate active participation and leadership.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes that education systems must be culturally safe and support Indigenous Peoples’ languages. The Forum reiterates the urgent need for Member States to protect Indigenous Peoples’ languages, both spoken and written, during the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, by adopting appropriate laws and policies.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages
Addressee: UN
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 23 (2024)
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The United Nations Summit of the Future should ensure mechanisms are established for the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Indonesia
Paragraph Number: 38
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum notes the proactive measures of the Governments of Honduras and Indonesia to integrate Indigenous Peoples’ rights within national land rights and environmental conservation frameworks. Furthermore, the Forum reiterates its concerns regarding the ongoing situation in West Papua, in particular the conflict with regard to Indigenous Peoples, and encourages the Government of Indonesia to extend invitations to United Nations special procedures mandate holders to conduct country visits.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources
Addressee: Chile; France
Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Governments of Chile and France to adhere to their international obligations under the Declaration, and to engage in meaningful dialogue with the Rapa Nui People (Chile) and the Indigenous Peoples of the overseas territories of France and resolve ongoing conflicts.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources
Addressee: Finland
Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum is concerned over the decision of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland to include individuals not recognized by the Sami community in the Sami Parliament’s electoral roll. The Forum urges the Parliament of Finland to amend the Sami Parliament Act in line with Sami Parliament proposals to protect the Sami People’s right to self-determination and ensure that their electoral processes reflect their standards of community membership.
Area of Work: Autonomy and Self-determination
Addressee: USA; Canada
Paragraph Number: 35
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates that the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline jeopardizes the Great Lakes and poses a real and credible threat to the human rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States. The Forum reiterates its call for Canada and the United States to decommission Line 5.
Area of Work: Human Rights
