E/2004/43 E/C.19/2004/23 (a) Data collection and segregation as a follow-up of recommendations by the technical workshop on data collection; (b) Human rights. In collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 112. The Forum intends to pursue the agenda of mainstreaming indigenous issues into the process of the Millennium Development Goals and applying the thematic approach to build up a three-year programme of work. The Forum intends moreover to focus on implementation and urges United Nations bodies, States and indigenous peoples to engage actively in the dialogue on these issues, sharing good practices and barriers to implementation. 113. The Forum decides to hold a meeting of four of its members with the InterAgency Support Group (IASG) at its annual session of IASG, in 2004. 114. The Forum decides to form a working group, including experts on statistics, to set directions for future statistical work, including that of the United Nations Statistics Division, and also decides that representatives from the Forum shall participate in scientific meetings to improve statistics in this area of work, such as the upcoming meeting sponsored by the International Association of Official Statisticians meeting, to be held in New Zealand on 14 and 15 April 2005, on the theme “Measuring small and indigenous populations”. Notes 28 1 This draft decision was previously recommended by the Forum at its second session; see Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 23 (E/2003/43), chap. I, sect. A, draft decision VII. 2 See ibid.

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