E/2024/43 E/C.19/2024/8 Discussion on the theme “Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ right to selfdetermination in the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Righ ts of Indigenous Peoples: emphasizing the voices of Indigenous youth” (item 3) 5. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues expresses its profound appreciation to the Vice-President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca Céspedes, and to the Minister for Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, Sônia Guajajara, for their presence and welcomes their interventions at the session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. 6. The right to self-determination and autonomy is central to strengthening Indigenous Peoples politically, socially, culturally and economically, and to enabling Indigenous Peoples to design their own future consistent with their views and cultural norms. The advancement by States of the right to self -determination is essential to enable Indigenous Peoples to protect and fully realize all other rights set forth in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the right to make decisions regarding their people, lands, territories and resources. 7. The Permanent Forum welcomes the study transmitted in the note by the Secretariat entitled “Guiding principles for the implementation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights to autonomy and self-government” (E/C.19/2024/3), which includes global examples of situations in which the rights to autonomy and self -determination come into play and the pivotal role of unified visions and objectives in the quest of Indigenous Peoples towards fully realizing autonomy and self-government. 8. The Permanent Forum acknowledges the statements made by the Vice-President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia on the establishment of a virtual platform entitled “Codes of living well of the ancestral peoples of the world”; by James Anaya, calling upon States to guarantee Indigenous Peoples’ rights to self-determination and participation in all decision-making processes; and by the Co-Chair of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, Makanalani Gomes, calling upon States to recognize Indigenous determinants of health in self-determination and the importance not only of the intergenerational transmission of Indigenous knowledge, but also of Indigenous youth leadership and participation. 9. The Permanent Forum recalls that the right to self-determination of Indigenous Peoples is grounded in the Declaration, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Permanent Forum calls upon all Member States to redouble efforts to fully realize the right of self-determination for Indigenous Peoples by ensuring that Indigenous Peoples remain at the centre of all decision-making processes that affect their Peoples, their communities, their lands, their territories and their resources. Furthermore, States should ensure that the right of Indigenous Peoples to self determination is honoured and advanced in all instances where laws, policies, programmes and funding may affect Indigenous Peoples. 10. The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation that Member States review and revise their constitutions and legal frameworks to comprehensively recognize the rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the right to self -determination. Such review and revision processes should be driven and guided by Indigenous Peoples. The Forum also recommends that Member States develop and adopt specific national action plans to ensure that all policies and laws conform with the recognition and advancement of the right to self-determination, including self-governance and autonomy. The Forum further recommends that States engage in processes focused on decolonization and reconciliation policies that facilitate the path of Indigenous Peoples to self-determination, with the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples. 6/28 24-07820