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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 80
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum takes note with appreciation of the Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge of the World Intellectual Property Organization for the benefit of Indigenous Peoples. It urges Member States to sign, ratify and implement the Treaty, which contains measures to protect against biopiracy, includes Indigenous Peoples’ full and effective participation in the Assembly of the Contracting Parties to the Treaty and acknowledges States’ commitments to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Intellectual property, Traditional Knowledge, Participation, UNDRIP
Addressee: Financial institutions (IFIS)
Paragraph Number: 82
Session: 24 (2025)
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Indigenous Peoples continue to face systemic obstacles to accessing financial resources that would enable them to participate fully in policy processes. Funding often bypasses Indigenous Peoples, undermining their governance and selfdetermination. Financial institutions and global actors must establish equitable, direct and accessible funding mechanisms aligned with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous leadership and participation are critical to advancing climate action, biodiversity protection and inclusive sustainable development.
Area of Work: Funding and resources, Participation, UNDRIP
Addressee: Extractive industries
Paragraph Number: 83
Session: 24 (2025)
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Existing mining standards and initiatives must never substitute for legal obligations that ensure social and environmental safeguards. Extractive industries should be required to restore mining sites.
Area of Work: Extractive Industries
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 84
Session: 24 (2025)
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States should align legal frameworks with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the Indigenous Peoples Principles and Protocols for Just Transition and the recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals regarding extractive activities, environmental protection, human rights and Indigenous Peoples’ collective and individual rights
Area of Work: Extractive Industries, Environment, Human Rights, UNDRIP
Paragraph Number: 85
Session: 24 (2025)
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States, mining companies and financial institutions must uphold the right of Indigenous Peoples to free, prior and informed consent, including the option to reject proposed projects that would affect their lands and territories. The representation and participation of Indigenous Peoples must be gender-balanced; and their selfdetermination and self-governance structures must be respected. Special protection must be afforded to Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact, in accordance with the Declaration and existing human rights standards, including respect for precautionary and no-contact principles.
Area of Work: Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact, Lands and Resources
Paragraph Number: 86
Session: 24 (2025)
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States, mining companies and financial institutions should ensure the establishment of accessible, independent and culturally appropriate grievance and redress mechanisms for Indigenous Peoples that should be available throughout the life cycle of the projects. These sectors should support sustainable development, track the origin and impacts of minerals throughout the supply chain and disclose human rights risks and environmental impacts.
Area of Work: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, Environment
Addressee: States; UNODC; Indigenous Peoples
Paragraph Number: 87
Session: 24 (2025)
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States are urged to take necessary measures where appropriate to ensure the rights, protection and safety of Indigenous leaders and human rights defenders and to promote a safe and enabling environment in which human rights violations, killings, reprisals and abuses against or related to them are prevented and investigated, the perpetrators are held accountable and access to justice and remedy are ensured, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 79/159. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and States should ensure the meaningful inclusion of Indigenous Peoples when developing strategies to prevent and combat environmental and other crimes. This includes supporting capacity-building for the documentation and reporting of alleged crimes, Indigenous-led monitoring, and accountability and reparations for environmental harm on Indigenous lands and territories. Indigenous Peoples are encouraged to participate in and contribute to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Human Rights Defenders, Capacity Building, Environment
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 88
Session: 24 (2025)
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States should establish a buffer zone around Indigenous Peoples’ lands and territories to protect their rights and resources from the impacts of extractive activities, including those involving critical minerals. This will protect the lives and ecosystems of Indigenous Peoples and is vital for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources, Extractive Industries
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 89
Session: 24 (2025)
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States must immediately halt mining projects in Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Russian Federation and Sweden and other projects violating the right of Indigenous Peoples to free, prior and informed consent. Furthermore, States should align their legislation with the Declaration, ensuring that companies are liable for human rights violations committed overseas.
Area of Work: Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Extractive Industries, UNDRIP
Paragraph Number: 90
Session: 24 (2025)
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It is recommended that the secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury conduct a comprehensive assessment of mercury emissions and releases, in particular from gold mining and processing activities that use mercury. The report on the assessment should contain a specific examination of the effects of such emissions on ecosystems, livelihoods, culture and the health of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Extractive Industries, Environment, Culture, Health
Paragraph Number: 91
Session: 24 (2025)
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The intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, should guarantee the meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples in all negotiations; their rights under the Declaration should be respected, and their knowledge systems incorporated into the instrument.
Area of Work: Participation, Traditional Knowledge, UNDRIP
Addressee: Multilateral development banks
Paragraph Number: 92
Session: 24 (2025)
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To address global challenges, Indigenous Peoples must be urgently included in financial architecture reform. Multilateral development banks should develop policies that ensure direct access to financing for Indigenous Peoples, in particular for Indigenous women and young people.
Area of Work: Funding and resources, Indigenous Women, Indigenous Children and Youth
