E/2004/43 E/C.19/2004/23 6. In addition, widening regional conflicts, especially in Africa and Asia, have led to increasing militarization and gross human rights violations against indigenous women. These new disturbing trends exacerbate the pre-existing, chronic conditions of lack of adequate health care, education and sustainable forms of income generation faced by indigenous communities in many parts of the world. However, indigenous women’s groups have begun to speak out against what they perceive to be a collusion between Governments and multinational enterprises. They feel that the ensuing global processes of economic liberalization, deregulation and privatization seriously endanger their already tenable livelihoods and long-term survival. IV. Policy recommendations 7. As these global processes have serious negative implications for indigenous women at the national and local levels, laws, policies, budgets and programmes must be put in place at the international, regional/national, and local levels as well if they are to effectively address these problems. Some of the issues addressed by the panellists included: (a) At the international level: (i) Mainstreaming indigenous women’s issues throughout the United Nations system is essential to design effective strategies and to increase the number of indigenous women in decision-making structures; ensuring that the Commission on the Status of Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples and other human rights mechanisms pay adequate attention to indigenous women; (ii) Disaggregated data: in order to effectively tackle the cross-cutting issues faced by indigenous women, the problem of lack of disaggregated and relevant data must be addressed by United Nations agencies and programmes; (iii) Enhancing cultural sensitivity and local participation, taking into account culture-specific factors in programme design and execution; (iv) Increasing indigenous women’s participation in decision-making and governance; (v) Highlighting the issue of indigenous women’s migration, including human rights violations, trafficking and forced labour, as well as their impact on the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; (b) At the national level: (i) The Forum recalls and reiterates: a. Paragraph 18 of the Durban Declaration which requested States to adopt public policies and give impetus to programmes on behalf of and in concert with indigenous women and girls, with a view to promoting their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights; to putting an end to their situation of disadvantage for reasons of gender and ethnicity; to dealing with urgent problems affecting them in regard to education, their physical and mental health, economic life and in the matter of violence against them, 44