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37. The Forum, taking note with appreciation of the conclusions and
recommendations of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHabitat) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
joint publication entitled “Indigenous peoples’ right to adequate housing: a global
overview”, recommends that UN-Habitat, jointly with the Office of the High
Commissioner, organize an expert group meeting in 2006 to review the status of
progress on indigenous peoples’ housing rights globally and identify and document
best practices, and report on the outcome and recommendations of the meeting to
the Forum at its sixth session.
38. The Forum calls for the dissemination and full implementation of the
recommendations of the Special Rapporteur’s reports on the relationships of
indigenous peoples and land rights, and on permanent sovereignty of indigenous
peoples over their natural resources and invites the Special Rapporteur, through the
Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, to present an
updated report at the next session of the Forum.
39. The Forum welcomes the offer of the World Bank to host a workshop on
indigenous peoples and poverty, and looks forward to receiving the results of the
workshop in its fifth session.
40. The Forum urges States, the United Nations system, international financial
institutions, international and regional trade bodies (such as the World Trade
Organization, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Common Market of the
South) to undertake social and human rights impact assessments of the globalization
and liberalization of trade and investments on indigenous peoples’ poverty situation.
2.
Special theme: Millennium Development Goals and indigenous peoples: Goal 2
of the Millennium Development Goals: “Achieve universal primary education”,
to be addressed under the thematic approaches of language, cultural perspectives
and traditional knowledge
41. In approaching Millennium Development Goal 2, “Achieve universal primary
education: ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school”, especially for
indigenous children, the Forum recalls the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, International Labour
Organization (ILO) conventions, the International Charter of Traditional Games and
Sports and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) Convention against Discrimination in Education.
42. The Forum also recalls the Dakar Framework for Action, “Education for all:
meeting our collective commitments”, especially regarding indigenous children and
in particular girls.
43. The Forum takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation
of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people to the Commission
on Human Rights submitted in 2005 (E/CN.4/2005/88), the report of a seminar on
education and indigenous peoples organized by the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO held in Paris
(E/CN.4/2005/88/Add.4), on a workshop on higher education and indigenous
peoples held in Costa Rica in 1999 (E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/1999/5) and the minimum
standards for education in emergencies, chronic crises and early reconstruction
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