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contained in paragraph 55, that United Nations agencies, bodies and other entities
support the development of protocol templates for police practices involving missing
persons cases of indigenous women and girls, and that indigenous peoples and States
work in partnership to implement these protocol templates to increase their effectiveness
and to be consistent with international human rights laws, norms and standards.
22. The Forum welcomes the participation and perspective of indigenous women
and girls with disabilities, recognizes the distinct vulnerability and marginalization
that such indigenous individuals encounter as members of an indigenous group, and
encourages United Nations agencies, and Governments and organizations, to include
their views.
23. The Forum recommends that the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality
and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the bureau of the fifty-seventh
session of the Commission on the Status of Women include indigenous women as
experts on violence against women in the interactive panels and guarantee the
participation of indigenous women in the process of preparation for and during the
fifty-seventh session of the Commission.
24. The Forum welcomes the adoption by the Commission on the Status of Women
at its fifty-sixth session of the resolution entitled “Indigenous women: key actors in
poverty and hunger eradication” (see E/2012/27-E/CN.6/2012/16, resolution 56/4)
and calls for its implementation.
25. The Forum notes with appreciation the continuing research on violence against
indigenous girls, adolescents and young women conducted by many Governments
and agencies, including UNICEF, UN-Women, the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), the International Labour Organization (ILO), WHO and the office of the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children, and
the efforts of those agencies to address gaps in knowledge on the issue, increase
resources and capacity and identify better ways to work collaboratively with
indigenous women.
26. The Forum urges indigenous organizations to make more effective use of
existing international human rights monitoring instruments, such as the Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and to bring communications
to their attention regarding claims of violence of different forms against indigenous
women, to ensure States take steps to end the persistent and unaddressed violence,
including murders and disappearances of indigenous women.
27. The Forum recommends that all States install gender-sensitive action plans and
independent self-reporting mechanisms that give particular attention to indigenous
peoples, with the aim of protecting victims, prosecuting perpetrators and preventing
human trafficking and related serious exploitation in all its forms, in accordance
with the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women
and Children and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and
Air, both supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime; and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
28. Celebrating 22 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the
first legally binding international instrument affirming human rights for all children,
the Permanent Forum welcomes the adoption of the third Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, enabling
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