E/2010/43 E/C.19/2010/15 cooperation agencies in order to develop policies aimed at the elimination of forced labour and other forms of servitude, especially in matters relating to the most urgent challenges: food, health, housing and education. 84. The Permanent Forum notes that forced labour and all forms of servitude constitute serious human rights violations that it is urgent to address; it therefore urges the Government of Paraguay to combat these practices as a matter of urgency. 85. The Permanent Forum recommends that those responsible for practices of forced labour or other forms of servitude should be prosecuted under Paraguayan law. 86. The Permanent Forum recommends that Paraguay should propose the negotiation of international agreements for protection of the rights of indigenous peoples with the other States of the Chaco region — the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil — and particularly with the Plurinational State of Bolivia with a view to the latter’s development of additional policies aimed at the freeing of individuals, the recovery of land and the rebuilding of peoples. 87. The Permanent Forum recommends that any future agreements with the Plurinational State of Bolivia should provide, in particular, for means of protecting the territory of the Ayoreo people living in voluntary isolation. 88. The Permanent Forum encourages CAPI and other indigenous peoples’ organizations to continue to defend the principle of indigenous peoples’ selfdetermination that they have followed in asserting their own identity, and thus to continue their efforts to reach agreement with the Government on reforms consistent with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 89. The Permanent Forum thanks the country team for endorsing the recommendations contained in the report on the mission to Paraguay and for taking responsibility for follow-up to and implementation of those recommendations in cooperation with indigenous peoples’ organizations. 90. The Permanent Forum undertakes to continue to monitor implementation of the recommendations contained in its report with the cooperation of all parties to this dialogue: the Government, the representatives of indigenous peoples and the United Nations country team. Half-day discussion on North America 91. Indigenous peoples of North America (Turtle Island) are found within all states of the United States of America and within all provinces and territories of Canada. Despite the fact that indigenous peoples live in developed and democratic firstworld countries, the violation of their human rights affirmed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples — specifically, the right to selfdetermination and the right to development with culture and identity based on indigenous world views — has caused them to experience many critical socioeconomic problems: lack of employment, lack of access to clean water, physical and social isolation, substandard housing, critical health issues, high teenage suicide rates, violence against women, alcohol and substance abuse, and high rates of crime and incarceration. For example, the arrest and incarceration rates among indigenous peoples are nearly four times higher than the national average. All these factors contribute to the social dislocation of indigenous peoples and their alienation from both their ancestral lands and North American society in general. 10-36959 15