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Addressee: States; Indigenous Peoples
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 24 (2025)
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Truth-telling is a prerequisite for reconciliation; it helps to build new constructive arrangements and treaties between Indigenous Peoples and States. States and Indigenous Peoples are invited to initiate and support studies to document internal colonialism cases predating, coinciding with and surviving external colonialism. Those studies can offer policy guidance for dismantling such structures and restoring Indigenous Peoples’ self-governance. States and Indigenous Peoples are encouraged to contribute to debates on ways in which the United Nations system can redress and mediate the situations of internal colonialism at future sessions of the Permanent Forum.
Area of Work: Reconciliation
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum commends the progress of numerous States in recognizing Indigenous Peoples and their rights in constitutional reforms to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including on free, prior and informed consent legislation. Several countries spoke with pride of their policies of non-discrimination and equal access to public services. Still, some countries stopped short of engaging in meaningful discussions on the right to self-identification. The Forum recommends that States initiate dialogues on identity and non-discrimination with Indigenous Peoples concerned.
Area of Work: UNDRIP, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Paragraph Number: 48
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the preparation of the forthcoming study on Indigenous justice systems by the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and invites her to present it to the Forum at its twenty-fifth session.
Area of Work: Human Rights
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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
