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academia and other stakeholders undertake similar initiatives to raise awareness on
the challenges facing indigenous young people.
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
58. The 2030 Agenda is now in its fourth year of implementation, yet few countries
refer to indigenous peoples in their voluntary national reviews. The Permanent Forum
therefore urges countries undertaking voluntary national reviews at the high-level
political forum on sustainable development to include indigenous peoples under all
Sustainable Development Goals.
59. The Permanent Forum expresses concern that indigenous peoples are not
receiving adequate information regarding the achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals at the national level and encourages Governments, United
Nations entities, indigenous peoples and civil society organizations to convene
workshops and other forums to ensure their effective participation in implementing
the 2030 Agenda.
60. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Economic and Social Council and
the General Assembly ensure the meaningful participation of indigenous peoples and
the Forum at the meetings of the 2019 high-level political forum on sustainable
development, to be convened under the auspices of the Council and the Assembly in
July and September 2019, respectively. The Forum stresses that the contributions of
indigenous peoples to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda should be adequately
reflected in the outcome document of the high-level political forums convened under
the auspices of the Council and of the Assembly.
61. The Permanent Forum reiterates the importance of data collection and
disaggregation for tracking progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda to
ensure that indigenous peoples, who often trail the general population on development
indicators, are not left behind.
62. The Permanent Forum welcomes the study entitled “Free, prior and informed
consent: a human rights-based approach” (A/HRC/39/62), prepared by the Expert
Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It encourages Member States,
United Nations entities, including the International Labour Organization (ILO) and
the World Bank, regional development banks, the private sector, civil society
organizations and other stakeholders, to use the study as guidance for understanding
the principle of free, prior and informed consent when working on issues of concern
to indigenous peoples. The Forum also encourages indigenous peoples to use the
study to guide the development of their own community protocols on free, prior and
informed consent for engaging with these stakeholders.
63. The Permanent Forum acknowledges the establishment by the World Bank of
an inclusive forum for indigenous peoples to strengthen the Bank’s engagement with
indigenous peoples, which should assist the Bank in implementing a human rights based approach to development. The Forum also calls upon the Bank, in collaboration
with indigenous peoples, to develop detailed guidance on the proper implementation,
review and monitoring of processes on free, prior and informed consent and to ensure
that its projects protect and enhance customary land tenure systems in the
implementation of Environmental and Social Standard 7 and the Environmental and
Social Framework approved by the World Bank in 2016.
Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and
the Chair of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
64. The Permanent Forum reiterates its grave concerns about the situation of
indigenous human rights defenders who continue to be harassed, criminalized,
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