E/2024/43 E/C.19/2024/8 approaches, in compliance with the Declaration and the WHO resolution on Indigenous health. 68. The Permanent Forum appreciates the organization of a seminar on advances and challenges in the implementation of the Declaration, which was held in Mexico City and attended by Indigenous experts from Latin America, and which resulted in a series of recommendations included in the document “Mexico -Tenochtitlán Agreements on the Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. The Forum calls upon the organizers of that seminar to report on progress made with regard to those recommendations in the outcome document of the seminar. 69. The Forum welcomes the work of the Government of Bangladesh to support peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The Forum calls upon the Government to prioritize the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord of 1997 and to assess the implementation status of the Accord through full, meaningful and effective participation of the Accord signatory party, the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti, Chittagong Hill Tracts regional institutions and traditional governing bodies. Annual review of progress on the implementation of general recommendation No. 39 (2022) 70. The Permanent Forum calls upon the Commission on the Status of Women to consider the issue of gender equality and the empowerment of Indigenous women and girls as a priority theme in its next multi-year programme of work in 2025. 71. The Permanent Forum welcomes the progress made by OHCHR in translating Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women general recommendation No. 39 (2022) into Aymara, Nahuatl, Moxeño Trinitario, Q’eqchi, Kaqchikel and Guaraní, and calls upon OHCHR to continue to expand its efforts to translate the recommendation into Indigenous languages throughout the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, before the end of 2032. Dialogues: regional dialogues (item 5 (e)) 72. The Permanent Forum held seven regional dialogues: Africa; the Arctic; Asia; Central and South America and the Caribbean; Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia; North America; and the Pacific. The aim was to engage the participants in deeper dialogue on relevant issues and on challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples in the various regions. Africa 73. The Permanent Forum welcomed the progress made by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana and Namibia in advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples’ i n those countries. 74. The lack of recognition of Indigenous Peoples violates their right to self determination. Their legal recognition should be aligned with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the report of the Working Group of Experts on Indigenous Populations/Communities of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 1 The Permanent Forum invites African Governments to join groups of friends of Indigenous Peoples. 75. The Permanent Forum notes that the concern expressed elsewhere in the present report about the extraction of critical minerals applies equally to Indigenous Peoples __________________ 1 14/28 See https://www.iwgia.org/images/publications/African_Commission_book.pdf . 24-07820