E/2025/43 E/C.19/2025/8 financial difficulties faced by the Fund and encourages Member States and funders to support the Voluntary Fund and the trust fund on Indigenous issues. 18. The Permanent Forum commends the progress made at the intersessional meetings of the Human Rights Council, noting that, at the second intersessional meeting of the Human Rights Council on concrete ways to enhance the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the work of the Council, for the first time, Indigenous Peoples from all seven sociocultural regions participated directly. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is invited to share lessons from that process with other United Nations entities. The Forum recommends that the Council, at its fifty-ninth session, establish a separate accreditation status for the representatives and institutions of Indigenous Peoples. The principles of the Declaration should inform the accreditation procedure, with due regard for selfdetermination, self-identification, equality, non-discrimination and accountability. 19. The Permanent Forum welcomes General Assembly resolution 78/328 on enhanced participation and recommends that the Assembly and the Human Rights Council ensure the full and effective involvement of Indigenous Peoples and their representative institutions. It calls upon Member States to financially support the Indigenous Coordinating Body for Enhanced Participation in the United Nations. 20. The Permanent Forum welcomes the establishment of the Subsidiary Body on Article 8 (j) and Other Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (decision 16/5) and the adoption of the new programme of work related thereto (decision 16/4) at the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. It urges the operationalization of the decision on the continued prioritization of Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge in implementing the Convention and the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The Forum also acknowledges that the Global Plan of Action on Biodiversity and Health (decision 16/19) draws on the study on the Indigenous determinants of health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (E/C.19/2023/5). 21. Noting the ongoing negotiations in the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Permanent Forum urges States to ensure adequate funding for the participation of Indigenous Peoples and to reach an agreement without delay. Discussion on the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum (economic and social development, culture, environment, education, health and human rights), with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (item 4) 22. The Permanent Forum reviewed its six mandated areas (economic and social development, culture, environment, education, health and human rights) through the lens of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Speakers highlighted the gap between global pledges and realities, citing land loss, cultural erosion, health inequities and barriers to education and livelihoods. The Forum stresses that full implementation of the Declaration, integrated with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is vital to justice, equity and sustainability for Indigenous Peoples. 23. The Permanent Forum welcomes the study entitled “Impact of colonization and armed conflicts on Indigenous Peoples’ rights: the imperative of peacebuilding” (E/C.19/2025/7) and underscores its relevance to Indigenous Peoples worldwide due to continued oppression, displacement, loss of life and intergenerational trauma resulting from armed conflicts and colonialism. 25-07572 7/23