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determine whether such programmes continue to exist, and report to the Forum at its
nineteenth session on the progress made.
52. The Permanent Forum recalls its previous recommendations on the progress of
the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord and calls upon the
Government of Bangladesh to take appropriate steps in this regard on an urgent basis.
In particular, the Forum urges the Government to frame rules for the Chittagong Hill
Tracts Land Disputes Resolution Commission and to generate ethnically
disaggregated data, including for the national census of 2021.
Indigenous women and gender
53. The Permanent Forum reiterates its invitation to the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women to adopt a general recommendation on
indigenous women by 2020, in accordance with the Declaration and other
international instruments. The Forum recommends that the general recommendation
on indigenous women consider issues related to the individual and collective rights
to equality, non-discrimination and self-determination; social and economic rights,
including the rights to decent work and to land, territory and resources; the right to
water and food; cultural rights; civil and political rights; and the right to live free of
any form of violence.
54. The Permanent Forum reiterates the recommendation contained in paragraph 40
of its report on its seventeenth session, in which it recommended 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: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, in 2020, to
review progress made towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development
Goals, with a focus on links to the Declaration. The Forum invites States, in
cooperation 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.
55. The Permanent Forum notes with appreciation the work of the trilateral working
group on violence against indigenous women and girls and urges Canada, Mexico and
the United States of America, in cooperation with United Nations entities, to organize
an international expert group meeting, by 2021, on ongoing issues of violence against
indigenous women and girls in the region, including trafficking, as well as the
continuing crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women.
56. 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
Sámi 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.
Children and youth
57. The Permanent Forum welcomes the launch of the publication Global
Indigenous Youth: Through their Eyes by the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus and
the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. The Forum
recommends that international organizations, indigenous youth organizations,
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