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Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 68
Session: 24 (2025)
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States must ensure equitable and direct access to funding for Indigenous women’s organizations, with a view to enhancing their participation and leadership in decision-making processes.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Funding and resources, Participation
Paragraph Number: 67
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum urges the representatives and institutions of Indigenous Peoples to submit candidates, especially Indigenous women, for the Working Group on Business and Human Rights of the Human Rights Council. It also encourages the Forum on Business and Human Rights to establish an ad hoc committee for Indigenous Peoples during the nineteenth cycle of the Human Rights Council. The Permanent Forum invites relevant mechanisms of the Human Rights Council to devote attention in their reports to the situation of Indigenous women and children.
Area of Work: Participation, Indigenous Women, Indigenous Children and Youth
Paragraph Number: 66
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women must guarantee equal access and non-discrimination of Indigenous women in respect of its communications procedure under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. States are encouraged to report annually on their progress in implementing general recommendation No. 39.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Implementation
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 61
Session: 24 (2025)
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Indigenous women continue to face intersectional forms of discrimination and systemic racism. The Permanent Forum urges States to promote the leadership of Indigenous women in order to address contemporary intersectional discrimination and intergenerational and historical trauma, including for those living outside their ancestral homelands.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma
Addressee: Human Rights Council; relevant mechanisms
Paragraph Number: 58
Session: 24 (2025)
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Following the recent coup in Myanmar, political instability persists, with planned military-led elections widely seen as a means to entrench power rather than restore democracy. Ongoing air strikes, even amid a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, highlight the crisis. The Human Rights Council and relevant mechanisms are urged to strengthen protection measures and establish more robust, locally grounded human rights monitoring for Indigenous Peoples facing violence and displacement.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Violence
Addressee: Russian Federation
Paragraph Number: 57
Session: 24 (2025)
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The disproportionate impact of Russian aggression against Ukraine on Indigenous Peoples in the region includes conscription, mass displacement and attacks on identity, violating their individual and collective rights. In occupied Crimea, Indigenous women are persecuted and detained for defending human rights. The Permanent Forum calls upon the Russian Federation to engage in constructive negotiations to achieve just and durable peace.
Area of Work: Conflict Prevention and Peace, Human Rights, Indigenous Women
Addressee: New Zealand
Paragraph Number: 56
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum heard about the retreat of New Zealand/Aotearoa from honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi), which sparked the country’s largest-ever protest. The Forum calls upon New Zealand to recommit to the Treaty.
Area of Work: Autonomy and Self-determination
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and the Sudan to promptly end violence against Indigenous Peoples, particularly Indigenous women and children, in the context of armed conflict, counter-terrorism and mining activities. Any peace process must involve Indigenous Peoples, in line with General Assembly resolution 79/159.
Area of Work: Violence, Indigenous Women, Indigenous Children and Youth, Conflict Prevention and Peace, Extractive Industries
Addressee: Chile
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum takes note of the efforts of Chile to promote the rights of Indigenous Peoples through the Presidential Commission for Peace and Understanding. The Forum invites Chile to implement general recommendation No. 39 (2022) by adopting the necessary legislation and public policies. It also urges Chile to replicate these positive developments with other Indigenous Peoples in its territory and to present progress to the Forum at its twenty-fifth session.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 53
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum heard testimonies on the many barriers in access to justice for Indigenous Peoples. It is deeply concerned about the disproportionate incarceration rates of Indigenous Peoples, especially children. States are urged to implement the internationally recommended age of criminal responsibility of at least 14 years. States must uphold the Convention on the Rights of the Child, under which incarceration must be a measure of last resort. The Forum condemns States’ violations of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The Forum calls upon States to remove existing barriers, ensure culturally appropriate access to justice and prevent the overcriminalization of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: States; Bangladesh
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 24 (2025)
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Several speakers emphasized the role of Indigenous women in peacebuilding. States are called upon to ensure Indigenous women’s participation in peace negotiations and peacebuilding. Although adversely affected by armed conflict and violence, the role of Indigenous Peoples in conflict resolution and peacebuilding is largely ignored. States are encouraged to ensure the inclusion and participation of Indigenous Peoples in ongoing peacemaking processes and to fulfil the agreements achieved with the participation of Indigenous Peoples. The Permanent Forum reiterates previous calls upon Bangladesh to ensure effective progress on implementing the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord of 1997.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Conflict Prevention and Peace, Participation
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 51
Session: 24 (2025)
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The lack of disaggregated data hides the realities confronting Indigenous Peoples and prohibits efforts to redress the inequalities and discrimination suffered and devise effective targeted measures. This problem can be exacerbated when Indigenous Peoples are not recognized. States should develop and operationalize comprehensive, rights-based disaggregated data frameworks in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Data Collection and Indicators
