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have led to regional consultations, the development of action plans specific to
indigenous peoples and, in some countries, changes to national legislation and
constitutions.
80. The Permanent Forum urges States that have been recommended by the
universal periodic review to ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention,
1989 (No. 169), to do so.
81. The Permanent Forum invites Member States to fully implement
recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
following her or his country visits.
82. With regard to the development of national action plans, as committed to by
Member States at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum
welcomes the adoption by the Government of El Salvador of a national action plan
and encourages its full and effective implementation. The Forum strongly urges other
States to follow this good practice and develop their own national action plans for the
full implementation of the Declaration. The Forum also encourages States to review
recommendations made at past sessions, renew efforts at their implementation and
report on progress made by 2021. The Forum invites the United Nations system to
support the efforts of Member States in this regard.
83. As consistently suggested during the dialogue with Member States, the
Permanent Forum invites States to consider ways of addressing disputes between
them and indigenous peoples. Suggestions included, among others, setting up
independent conflict resolution mechanisms to resolve disputes between States and
indigenous peoples (in accordance with article 27 of the Declaration and paragraph
21 of the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples),
implementing the Forum’s recommendations for better addressing such disputes and
increasing the involvement of indigenous peoples in decision-making processes.
Dialogue with the funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the
United Nations system
84. The Permanent Forum welcomes progress made by the funds, programmes and
specialized agencies of the United Nations system in continuing to implement the
system-wide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples and recommends the
continuation and expansion of this work by conducting an analysis, led by the
Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, of the Forum’s
recommendations, with the aim of identifying best practices, gaps and challenges, and
by exploring ways to implement outstanding recommendations by 2021.
85. Considering that some indigenous peoples are living in countries that do not
have United Nations country offices and lack opportunities to cooperate and
coordinate with the United Nations agencies in advancing their rights and well-being,
the Permanent Forum invites the United Nations system to cooperate with indigenous
peoples in those regions.
86. The Permanent Forum recommends United Nations entities that have not done
so to incorporate indigenous peoples-driven platforms in order to give advice on and
to promote indigenous peoples’ issues, as well as consider the participation of the
Permanent Forum together with indigenous peoples in such platforms.
87. The Permanent Forum invites the newly established Facilitative Working Group
of the local communities and indigenous peoples platform to collaborate closely with
bodies outside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on
matters relating to climate change and indigenous peoples, in accordance with its
mandate (Conference of the Parties decision 2/CP.24, para. 20).
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