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Paragraph Number: 32
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Division for the Advancement of Women of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs guarantee the participation of indigenous women during the 15-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in 2010.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: United Nations System, Member States
Paragraph Number: 31
Session: 8 (2009)
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In the context of the United Nations system-wide coherence, in particular gender equality architecture reform, the Permanent Forum recommends that States and the United Nations system ensure the inclusion of the priorities and demands of indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: CSW/DAW, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Secretary-General, in his report on the study of violence against women, address the particular situation of indigenous women and girls whose suffering is based not only on gender but also on ethnicity and culture.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: UN system, States/Government
Paragraph Number: 45
Session: 5 (2006)
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Redefining the Millennium Development Goals provides an opportunity to incorporate into the Goals the concerns of indigenous peoples, particularly indigenous women. The Goals offer a strategic framework within which to fully integrate the goals of the Platform for Action, which provides an important human rights-based approach to the development agenda for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women, including indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women and Girls
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 52
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to intensify efforts at the national level to implement Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 on women, peace and security, including through national action plans that pay special attention to indigenous women.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: IOM
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the initiative of IOM to establish a coordination mechanism for combating the trafficking of indigenous women and girls.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 49
Session: 5 (2006)
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States are urged to allocate budgets in order to implement quality services to reduce maternal mortality and ensure indigenous women’s access to reproductive health services.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Member States, UN entities
Paragraph Number: 56
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum notes the second World Conference of Indigenous Women, which will be organized in 2020 by the International Indigenous Women’s Forum, in cooperation with regional indigenous women’s networks and hosted by the Saìmi Nisson Forum. The global agenda for promoting the rights of indigenous women in the context of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the International Conference on Population and Development will be discussed at the World Conference. The Forum encourages Member States and United Nations entities to support the organization of the World Conference of Indigenous Women and the participation of indigenous women from all seven sociocultural regions.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Paragraph Number: 40
Session: 17 (2018)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Commission on the Status of Women organize a high-level interactive dialogue on the rights of indigenous women, to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, in 2020, to review progress made towards the Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on linkages with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Forum invites Member States, in co operation with indigenous peoples’ organizations and with the support of the United Nations system, to conduct preparatory processes, with the full and effective participation of indigenous women of all ages.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: Terri Henry
Paragraph Number: 108
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum appoints Terri Henry, a member of the Forum to undertake a study on spotlight in North America: good practices in addressing violence against indigenous women and the impact of grassroots movements in achieving national action, to be submitted to the Forum at its eighteenth session.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: UNFCCC
Paragraph Number: 53
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum continues to raise region-specific concerns about the adverse impact of climate change on indigenous communities (see E/2011/43-E/C.19/2011/14, para. 30) and invites the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to prepare a study on the impact of climate change on indigenous women, for submission to the Forum at its eighteenth session.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
Addressee: ILO
Paragraph Number: 51
Session: 16 (2017)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the need for the implementation of its recommendation, contained in paragraph 12 of its report on its third session E/2004/43-E/C.19/2004/23), relating to the situation of indigenous women migrants. The Forum invites ILO to coordinate with other appropriate agencies, in cooperation with indigenous women’s organizations, to prepare a report on the situation of indigenous women with regard to informal work, migration and working conditions, for submission to the Forum at its eighteenth session.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women
