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137. The Permanent Forum welcomes the joint initiative of the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), the Association of World Reindeer Herders, and
the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry aimed at assessing the impacts of
land-use change and climate change on nomadic pastoralists and on their adaptation
options and opportunities, focusing on taiga reindeer herding in the Russian
Federation, Mongolia and China, and yak herding in the Himalayas. The objective
of the project is to increase the resilience and capacity to adapt to climate change of
the nomadic communities while building partnerships between reindeer- and yakherding communities, strengthening local institutions and increasing the capacity of
nomadic herders to engage in land-use and natural resource management.
138. The Permanent Forum calls on the Inter-American Development Bank to
establish an advisory council of indigenous peoples to implement its strategy on
indigenous peoples.
139. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Lars-Anders Baer, a member of the
Forum, as a Special Rapporteur to undertake a study on the impacts of the cumulative
effects of land fragmentation, natural resource exploration, diminishing land and
associated rights, together with the multiple effects of climate change, on traditional
indigenous economies and land management by reindeer herders, to be completed
by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Permanent Forum at its tenth session.
140. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Paimaneh Hasteh, a member of the
Forum, as a Special Rapporteur to conduct an analysis on the duty of the State to
protect indigenous peoples affected by transnational corporations and other business
enterprises, to be submitted to the Forum at its eleventh session, in 2012.
141. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Lars-Anders Baer, as a Special
Rapporteur to undertake a study on the status of implementation of the Chittagong
Hill Tracts Accord of 1997, to be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to
the Forum at its tenth session.
142. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint as a Special Rapporteur Elisa Canqui
Mollo, a member of the Forum, to conduct a study on forced labour and indigenous
peoples, to be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Forum at its
tenth session.
143. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a member of
the Forum, as a Special Rapporteur to prepare a study on indigenous peoples and
forests, to be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Forum at its
tenth session.
144. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Bartolome Clavero Salvador, a
member of the Permanent Forum, as a Special Rapporteur to conduct a study on
international criminal law and the judicial defence of indigenous peoples’ rights, to
be completed by 31 December 2010 and submitted to the Forum at its tenth session.
145. The Permanent Forum expresses its deep appreciation to the sponsors of the
screening of the movie Avatar, which took place during the ninth session and was
arranged by the secretariat of the Forum. The Forum would also like to thank James
Cameron, the director of the movie, for his presence at the screening and for his
participation in the panel discussion that was held after the screening. The Forum
also welcomes Mr. Cameron’s support for indigenous film-makers and his offer to
assist them in future.
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