E/2017/43 E/C.19/2017/11 the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Forum recommends that such monitoring mechanisms address the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women, and that measures be taken to ensure the full protection of indigenous women against all forms of violence. 77. The Permanent Forum recommends that national and transnational corporations adhere to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Bu siness and Human Rights in order to ensure protection of the rights of indigenous human rights defenders. 78. The Permanent Forum recommends that donors, including the European Union, the European Commission, the Department of State of the United States o f America, human rights support organizations and others provide long -term funding, legal aid and other resources to assist indigenous human rights defenders, their families, networks and communities. 79. The Permanent Forum welcomes the decision of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples to prepare a study on intimidation, criminalization and violence of any form directed against indigenous peoples, communities or individuals, in particular those who defend their rights under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Forum invites the Special Rapporteur to share her preliminary findings and recommendations with the Forum at its seventeenth session. 80. The Permanent Forum urges States, in cooperation with i ndigenous peoples, to develop and implement specific laws and mechanisms to protect indigenous human rights defenders, to ensure that attacks against them are investigated and that those persons responsible are held accountable. 81. National human rights institutions are encouraged to work with indigenous peoples to develop strategies to protect and provide support to indigenous human rights defenders. Follow-up to the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 82. The follow-up to the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples focused on the following three areas: (a) implementation of national action plans, strategies or other measures; (b) ways to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples at the United Nations; and (c) implementation of the United Nations system-wide action plan on indigenous peoples. 83. The Permanent Forum calls upon States that have not already done so to engage in constructive partnerships with indigenous peoples to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and to adopt specific action plans, strategies or other measures that will deliver required financial and technical assistance to indigenous peoples in order for them to achieve and exercise self-determination. 84. The Permanent Forum has considered options for indigenous peoples’ representation at all levels of the United Nations, noting, in particular, the requests by indigenous peoples’ representative institutions, including traditional councils and authorities, to be accredited in the United Nations system. 85. The Permanent Forum strongly supports the granting of observer status in General Assembly meetings to indigenous peoples’ representative institutions. 86. The Permanent Forum notes the challenges of accreditation of indigenous peoples’ representative institutions. The Forum recommends that selection criteria 16/25 17-08011