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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 21
Session: 24 (2025)
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Noting the ongoing negotiations in the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Permanent Forum urges States to ensure adequate funding for the participation of Indigenous Peoples and to reach an agreement without delay.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources, Participation, Intellectual Property
Addressee: Member States; COP; SCBD
Paragraph Number: 20
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the establishment of the Subsidiary Body on Article 8 (j) and Other Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (decision 16/5) and the adoption of the new programme of work related thereto (decision 16/4) at the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. It urges the operationalization of the decision on the continued prioritization of Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge in implementing the Convention and the KunmingMontreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The Forum also acknowledges that the Global Plan of Action on Biodiversity and Health (decision 16/19) draws on the study on the Indigenous determinants of health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (E/C.19/2023/5).
Area of Work: Environment, Traditional Knowledge, Health
Paragraph Number: 19
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes General Assembly resolution 78/328 on enhanced participation and recommends that the Assembly and the Human Rights Council ensure the full and effective involvement of Indigenous Peoples and their representative institutions. It calls upon Member States to financially support the Indigenous Coordinating Body for Enhanced Participation in the United Nations.
Area of Work: Enhanced Participation at the UN, Funding and Resources
Addressee: Human Rights Council; OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 18
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum commends the progress made at the intersessional meetings of the Human Rights Council, noting that, at the second intersessional meeting of the Human Rights Council on concrete ways to enhance the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the work of the Council, for the first time, Indigenous Peoples from all seven sociocultural regions participated directly. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is invited to share lessons from that process with other United Nations entities. The Forum recommends that the Council, at its fifty-ninth session, establish a separate accreditation status for the representatives and institutions of Indigenous Peoples. The principles of the Declaration should inform the accreditation procedure, with due regard for selfdetermination, self-identification, equality, non-discrimination and accountability
Area of Work: Enhanced Participation at the UN
Addressee: Member States; Funders
Paragraph Number: 17
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the continued commitment and role of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples in enhancing the participation of Indigenous Peoples within the United Nations system. The Forum notes the financial difficulties faced by the Fund and encourages Member States and funders to support the Voluntary Fund and the trust fund on Indigenous issues.
Area of Work: Voluntary Fund, Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues, Funding and Resources
Addressee: Bolivia
Paragraph Number: 16
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to comply with the articles of the Declaration that have been incorporated into its Constitution, including those on free, prior and informed consent, protecting Indigenous women and ensuring territorial integrity.
Area of Work: UNDRIP, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Indigenous Women
Addressee: USA
Paragraph Number: 15
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum urges the United States to fully implement the Declaration by strengthening commitments to Indigenous leadership, including by seating the delegate of the Cherokee Nation in the House of Representatives. It welcomes the adoption of the Declaration by the Pawnee, Ho-Chunk, Yurok and Muscogee (Creek) Nations.
Area of Work: UNDRIP, Implementation
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 14
Session: 24 (2025)
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Member States are encouraged to reaffirm their commitment to prevent the use of Indigenous Peoples’ resources, lands and territories without free, prior and informed consent and respect the territorial integrity of Indigenous Peoples. The population of Greenland is over 90 per cent Indigenous; hence, the Declaration applies fully, along with national and international law. Member States are called to honour the territorial integrity and political autonomy of Greenland.
Area of Work: Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Lands and Resources, Autonomy and Self-determination
Addressee: India
Paragraph Number: 13
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon India to uphold human rights in conflict affected Manipur. While noting positive developments, the Forum recommends that India take effective measures to restore peace and normalcy, including by addressing decades of displacement and trauma, and to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice. The Forum calls for an immediate cessation of violence and insists that the State adopt peaceful measures to end the conflict.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Conflict Prevention and Peace, Violence
Addressee: Canada; USA
Paragraph Number: 12
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its call for Canada and the United States to decommission the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline, which poses a real and credible threat to the Great Lakes and Indigenous Peoples. Both States must implement the Declaration in connection with Line 5 by respecting the free, prior and informed consent of the affected Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Lands and Resources
Addressee: Member States; USA
Paragraph Number: 11
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum calls upon the United States of America and all Member States to uphold their commitments to ensuring the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples who require a visa to attend the sessions of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and other relevant meetings, in line with the joint letter of April 2025 from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. In their letter, they highlight the urgent need to facilitate the timely issuance of visas and unimpeded access to venues, with a view to ensuring the meaningful inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in decision-making, as enshrined in articles 18 and 42 of the Declaration, supported by the Charter of the United Nations and other relevant international human rights instruments.
Area of Work: Participation
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 10
Session: 24 (2025)
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Member States should acknowledge the critical role of Indigenous Peoples as guardians of their lands and territories; their traditional knowledge must be fully respected in environmental governance, including the protection and use of medicinal plants, such as the coca leaf and peyote, that hold profound religious, cultural and spiritual significance to Indigenous Peoples, and their ecosystems.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources, Traditional Knowledge, Environment, Culture, Health
