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Addressee: UN System
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 4 (2005)
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United Nations agencies involved in data-collection processes regarding the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 2 should develop indicators relevant for indigenous peoples that capture their specificities including languages, culture, values and worldviews.
Area of Work: MDGs
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Special Rapporteur on human rights and fundamental freedom of indigenous people and the Special Rapporteur on the right to education are invited to work with the Forum and other United Nations agencies to promote and monitor the realization of indigenous peoples' rights to quality and culturally appropriate education, including treaty rights to education
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: UNICEF
Paragraph Number: 53
Session: 4 (2005)
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UNICEF is invited to report to the Forum at its fifth session on the result of the "25 by 2005" initiative on maximizing indigenous girls' education programs
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: World Bank
Paragraph Number: 39
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum welcomes the offer of the World Bank to host a workshop on indigenous peoples and poverty, and looks forward to receiving the results of the workshop in its fifth session
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 36
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that the precautionary principle underpin the regulation of the introduction of technologies, such as genetically modified crops, including genetic utilization restriction technologies, "the terminator seed technology", and further recommends that Governments ratify and implement the Biosaftey Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Paragraph Number: 31
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that ILO, with the participation of interested parties, including indigenous peoples' organizations (the United Nations system, the International Finance Corporation, the European Bank for Rural Development) conduct a workshop on capacity-building for the sustainable development of indigenous communities to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals and targets are implemented in a timely and appropriate manner for indigenous peoples
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: Secretariat of the World Water Forum
Paragraph Number: 30
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends the full participation of indigenous peoples at the upcoming World Water Forum to be held in Mexico City in 2006, and the inclusion of indigenous rights and perspectives on water in that conference
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: Member States, UN system
Paragraph Number: 17
Session: 4 (2005)
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The impact of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals on indigenous peoples should be assessed and reported in Millennium Development Goals country reports and other relevant reports by States and the United Nations system. Progressive assessment of the situation of indigenous peoples in the process of implementation of the Millennium Development Goals should be reflected in the Millennium Development Goals country reports. Guidelines for the preparation of the Millennium Development Goals reports should be refined to ensure that the coverage of the poverty situation of indigenous peoples is integrated. The Millennium Development Goals country reports should be prepared, where relevant, with the full participation of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: MDGs
Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 4 (2005)
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States, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, academia and the media should promote national dialogues and collaboration, including through the establishment of policy and institutional frameworks, as appropriate, in order to bring together indigenous peoples' perspectives, technical knowledge and priorities for sustainable human development and their expectations regarding the Millennium Development Goals. Indigenous peoples' institutions and processes, where they exist, should be respected during these dialogues
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 11
Session: 4 (2005)
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In implementing the Millennium Development Goals, States should ensure the absolute prohibition of racial discrimination and, where appropriate, should promote multicultural policies, affirmative action and special measures necessary for poverty reduction among indigenous communities
Area of Work: MDGs
Paragraph Number: 7
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum invites all the African States, the African Union and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to its fifth session to participate in meetings on the Millennium Development Goals and their implementation in Africa during the Second Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: MDGs
Addressee: Member States, UN System
Paragraph Number: 101
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum invites Governments, United Nations organizations and their regional offices, universities and research bodies to support the convening of regional workshops and other activities in the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific to identify indicators relevant to indigenous peoples’ poverty and well-being, traditional knowledge and biodiversity, with a view to monitoring progress in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Area of Work: MDGs
