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expert group meeting on HIV/AIDS by 2019, which would include the full and
effective participation of indigenous peoples living with and affected by HIV/AIDS,
to analyse the sociocultural and economic determinants of health for HIV/AIDS
prevention, care and treatment in indigenous communities, with the Forum’s
collaboration, in order to ensure the realization of target 3.3 of the Sustainable
Development Goals.
43. The Permanent Forum recommends that States collaborate with indigenous
peoples to ensure adequate resources to design and fully implement HIV/AIDS and
hepatitis B and C programmes that address the social, economic and cultural
determinants of health for HIV prevention, care and treatment in indigenous
populations, in particular indigenous women and youth.
44. The Permanent Forum invites UNFPA, in collaboration with the Forum, to
identify good practices of culturally appropriate intervention models from its work
in developing countries that provide support to indigenous peoples, in particular
women and girls, in exercising their health and reproductive rights, and to report to
the Forum on those models by 2018.
45. The Permanent Forum recognizes the efforts made by UNFPA, the United
Nations Children’s Fund and UN-Women and recommends that they continue to
make efforts to implement the recommendation made by the Forum at its fifteenth
session to develop a fact sheet on maternal and child health in indigenous
communities (E/2016/43-E/C.19/2016/11, para. 38) and present the fact sheet to the
Forum by 2018, so as to provide support for target 3.7 of the Sustainable
Development Goals.
46. On the basis of the Permanent Forum’s continued concern about the impact of
environmental toxins and the export and import of banned pesticides on the
reproductive health of indigenous women and girls, the Forum reaffirms its call,
contained in its report on its thirteenth session, for a legal review of the United
Nations chemical conventions, in particular the Rotterdam Convention, to ensure
that they are in conformity with international human rights standards, including the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (E/2014/43-E/C.19/2014/11, para. 16; see
also E/C.19/2014/8, para. 62). The Forum recommends that the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, in particular article 24, and its recognition of environmental
health as a right protected under the Convention also be considered in the legal
review. The Forum invites the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human
rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous
substances and wastes to carry out a review within his mandated area of expertise
and to present his conclusions to the Forum at its seventeenth session.
Follow-up to the recommendations of the Permanent Forum Empowerment of
indigenous women
47. The Permanent Forum will continue to play a key role in the empowerment of
indigenous women and to provide a platform in which States, the United Nations
system and indigenous women evaluate the progress made and the challenges that
remain to overcome the marginalization and exclusion of indigenous women .
48. The Permanent Forum urges States to cooperate with indigenous peoples to
prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against indigenous
women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities and to provide
support for measures aimed at ensuring their full and effective participation in
decision-making processes at all levels and at eliminating structural and legal
barriers to their full, equal and effective participation in political, economic, social
and cultural life.
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