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Addressee: Nicaragua
Paragraph Number: 33
Session: 24 (2025)
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Nicaragua must respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Moskitia region (La Mosquitia) and cease militarization and criminalization with respect to their lands and territories. In line with the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, Nicaragua should immediately release arbitrarily detained Indigenous leaders and defenders and take measures to clarify the fate and whereabouts of those subjected to enforced disappearance.
Area of Work: Human Rights
Addressee: Iraq
Paragraph Number: 34
Session: 24 (2025)
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Iraq should secure self-identified Indigenous Peoples’ rights to their lands, territories, cultures and self-governance, guaranteeing free, prior and informed consent and respecting their right to self-identification.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources, Culture, Autonomy and Self-determination, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Addressee: Peru
Paragraph Number: 35
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum commends Peru for its contributions to the international recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, including in the development and adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. However, the Forum is concerned about recent legislation in Peru, namely Law No. 32301 amending the law on the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation. The Forum has been informed by Indigenous Peoples that this new amendment risks criminalizing Indigenous human rights defenders for their advocacy and risks granting immunity for serious human rights violations. The Forum recommends that Peru review its legislation and ensure that implementation thereof aligns with its human rights obligations, including freedom of expression and association, which are particularly vital for Indigenous Peoples to enjoy their rights under the Declaration. The Forum encourages Peru to protect Indigenous human rights defenders and to engage in meaningful, transparent consultations with representatives of Indigenous Peoples and their institutions when enacting any legislation affecting their rights and adopting regulations to implement those laws. Peru should implement laws to avoid legislation being used to foster impunity for crimes against humanity committed against Indigenous human rights defenders.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Human Rights Defenders
Addressee: Russian Federation
Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum noted the draft federal law on the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation and calls upon the Russian Federation to take Indigenous Peoples’ language rights into consideration.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages
Addressee: United Nations
Paragraph Number: 38
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues outlined an accountability framework involving United Nations resident coordinators to assess successes and challenges in implementing the Declaration. The Permanent Forum welcomes this initiative and urges the United Nations to ensure that this process is implemented, including in Member States that withhold recognition of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: UNDRIP, Implementation
Addressee: FAO
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 24 (2025)
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United Nations entities recommended that Indigenous Peoples strengthen advocacy and engagement at the national level, including with parliamentarians, financial mechanisms, plans and programmes. The Permanent Forum acknowledges the opportunity to engage on and promote Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Committee on World Food Security of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in discussions on ultraprocessed food and the International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 24 (2025)
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United Nations entities are urged to strengthen and facilitate Indigenous women’s and young people’s engagement in decision-making across the United Nations, enhancing capacity-building, knowledge exchange, and advisory roles.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Indigenous Children and Youth, Capacity building
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 41
Session: 24 (2025)
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Many United Nations treaty negotiations – such as the WHO Pandemic Agreement – lacked Indigenous Peoples’ meaningful participation. The Permanent Forum urges States to strengthen Indigenous Peoples’ effective engagement when deciding on participation modalities in ongoing and future United Nations treaty negotiations.
Area of Work: Participation, Institutional Participatory Mechanisms, Health
Addressee: UNEP
Paragraph Number: 42
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum expresses concern over the current implementation of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, where reliance on State and non-State intermediaries and on efforts designed by States continues to marginalize Indigenous Peoples whose lands and territories are central to restoration efforts. The Forum calls upon the United Nations Environment Programme to fulfil the Decade’s transformative promise by ensuring the recognition of Indigenous Peoples as rights holders and ecological stewards, ensuring direct access to finance and embedding their leadership in the next five-year strategic plans in the mechanisms supporting Indigenous-led restoration.
Area of Work: Environment, Lands and Resources, Funding and Resources
Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 43
Session: 24 (2025)
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United Nations entities should ensure the inclusion, equality and equity of Indigenous Peoples in humanitarian responses
Area of Work: Participation
Addressee: WHO
Paragraph Number: 44
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum urges WHO to establish a standing Indigenous-led advisory committee to the Director General regarding Indigenous Peoples’ health to steer, monitor and report annually on the implementation and ongoing operationalization of World Health Assembly resolution 76.16. The committee should be majority-Indigenous, gender-balanced, regionally diverse, and chosen through Indigenous representative institutions, in line with free, prior and informed consent.
Area of Work: Health, Implementation, Institutional Participatory Mechanisms
Addressee: Human Rights Council
Paragraph Number: 46
Session: 24 (2025)
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Collaboration between the Indigenous Peoples’ mechanisms, the United Nations treaty bodies and the Human Rights Council special procedures can be mutually reinforcing to advance the recognition and protection of Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Such engagements should be not mere procedural exercises (so-called “rights ritualism”) but aimed at concrete outcomes.
Area of Work: Cooperation
