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Paragraph Number: 19
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes General Assembly resolution 78/328 on enhanced participation and recommends that the Assembly and the Human Rights Council ensure the full and effective involvement of Indigenous Peoples and their representative institutions. It calls upon Member States to financially support the Indigenous Coordinating Body for Enhanced Participation in the United Nations.
Area of Work: Enhanced Participation at the UN, Funding and Resources
Addressee: Member States; COP; SCBD
Paragraph Number: 20
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the establishment of the Subsidiary Body on Article 8 (j) and Other Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (decision 16/5) and the adoption of the new programme of work related thereto (decision 16/4) at the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. It urges the operationalization of the decision on the continued prioritization of Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge in implementing the Convention and the KunmingMontreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The Forum also acknowledges that the Global Plan of Action on Biodiversity and Health (decision 16/19) draws on the study on the Indigenous determinants of health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (E/C.19/2023/5).
Area of Work: Environment, Traditional Knowledge, Health
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 21
Session: 24 (2025)
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Noting the ongoing negotiations in the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Permanent Forum urges States to ensure adequate funding for the participation of Indigenous Peoples and to reach an agreement without delay.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources, Participation, Intellectual Property
Paragraph Number: 24
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum endorses the report of the international expert group meeting on the theme “The rights of Indigenous Peoples, including those in voluntary isolation and initial contact in the context of critical minerals” (E/C.19/2025/4). The Forum urges the United Nations system, the private sector and multinational corporations to collaborate on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report. Addressing the rights of Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact is vital and States must take urgent action to comply with these recommendations.
Area of Work: Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact
Addressee: Member States; UN entities
Paragraph Number: 25
Session: 24 (2025)
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States should operationalize the Declaration by reviewing and reforming internal administrative boundaries that divide Indigenous Peoples’ territories, ensuring respect for their territorial integrity. United Nations entities should integrate Indigenous Peoples’ territorial realities into data systems, peacebuilding, development and humanitarian efforts to avoid reliance on State-centric boundaries that overlook Indigenous geographies.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources, UNDRIP, Implementation
Addressee: UN entities; Member States; partners
Paragraph Number: 26
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum urges United Nations entities, States and partners to fund and support effective youth participation in all relevant United Nations forums. Sufficient financing will better enable Indigenous youth to shape a sustainable future.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth, Participation, Funding and Resources
Addressee: UN Ocean Conferences
Paragraph Number: 27
Session: 24 (2025)
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United Nations Ocean Conferences should ensure the effective engagement of Indigenous Peoples, as exemplified in decision 16/19 adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2024, in which the Indigenous determinants of health framework was incorporated.
Area of Work: Methods of Work
Addressee: Member States; UN entities
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Coalition on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems is critical for Indigenous led food sovereignty. The Permanent Forum calls upon States and United Nations entities to provide funding for the Coalition.
Area of Work: Funding and resources, Food Sovereignty
Addressee: PAHO; WHO; Member States
Paragraph Number: 29
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum commends the World Health Organization (WHO), including its regional offices, for advancing the recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ traditional medicine and midwifery. However, some regional offices, particularly the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), utilize the concept of interculturality, which predates the Declaration, to conflate rights holders with stakeholders in the implementation of initiatives, undermining Indigenous Peoples’ autonomy and self determination and compliance with the principle of free, prior and informed consent. The Forum calls upon PAHO and any regional offices using this approach to halt this conflation and to address Indigenous issues separately from those of stakeholders. WHO, PAHO and Member States should also recognize Indigenous midwifery as an autonomous ancestral practice and a critical Indigenous determinant of health, decriminalize Indigenous-recognized traditional midwifery, finance Indigenous-led maternal care, integrate Indigenous-recognized midwifery into national health policies, and fully respect Indigenous Peoples’ distinct rights.
Area of Work: Health, Autonomy and Self-determination
Addressee: World Tourism Organization; World Bank; WHO
Paragraph Number: 30
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon the World Tourism Organization, the World Bank and the World Health Organization to develop a framework for monitoring and reporting on the impact of tourism on Indigenous Peoples by 2026, including data disaggregation.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 31
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum urges States that have not yet done so to ratify Convention No. 169 of the International Labour Organization and to take concrete measures to fully implement the Declaration.
Area of Work: ILO 169, UNDRIP, Implementation
Addressee: Ecuador
Paragraph Number: 32
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum commends Ecuador for its openness in engaging with the Forum. The Forum encourages Ecuador to implement the rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of 2012 regarding the Kichwa people of Sarayaku and of 2025 regarding the Tagaeri and Taromenane peoples living in voluntary isolation. The Forum is concerned by the need to urgently clear territories affected by explosive ordnance. The Forum is also concerned by reports of criminalization of Indigenous leaders in Ecuador. The Forum invites Ecuador to report on the progress made in relation to the implementation of these rulings and other positive developments at its twenty-fifth session. The Forum also urges Ecuador to adopt the draft national law on free, prior and informed consent, currently under debate in the National Assembly, and developed with the effective participation of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact
