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indigenous lands and systemic violence committed by Member States against
indigenous peoples.
63. The Forum calls upon all those Member States which have not yet done so to
consider without delay ratifying the International Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Racial Discrimination and International Labour Organization
Convention No. 169.
64. The Forum calls upon the United Nations Development Programme to develop
an indigenous peoples-specific development index by country to take into account
the social conditions and human rights situation of indigenous peoples.
65. The Forum recommends that UN-Habitat jointly, with the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, through the United Nations Housing
Rights Programme, organize an expert group meeting in 2006 to review the status of
the realization process of indigenous peoples’ housing rights globally, and identify
and document best practices and report on the outcome and recommendations of the
expert group meeting at the sixth session of the Forum.
66. The Forum recommends that all Member States, with the assistance of United
Nations agencies, as necessary, develop capacity-building programmes, including
curricula that have a strong human rights focus, including collective rights of
indigenous peoples, across the spectrum of national educational institutions.
67. The Forum recommends that Member States investigate the alarming rate of
incarceration of indigenous women and communicate their findings to the
Permanent Forum.
68. The Forum recommends that Member States review their constitutions with
respect to the recognition of the existence and rights of indigenous peoples, with the
effective participation of indigenous peoples.
69. The Forum recommends that Member States, the intergovernmental system,
international financial institutions and the private sector respect and adhere to the
principle of free, prior and informed consent in all matters affecting indigenous
peoples.
70. The Forum recommends that United Nations country offices make the effort to
disseminate their activities in publications in indigenous languages.
71. The Forum invites the Commission on Human Rights to recommend that the
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and their families incorporate in
her report the situation of indigenous migrants, especially indigenous women and
children.
72. The Forum invites the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to
present an evaluation of the implementation of the Durban Plan of Action at the
sixth session of the Forum (2007) pertaining to indigenous peoples, especially
indigenous women.
73. The Forum recommends that States pay special attention to the situation of
uncontacted indigenous peoples, peoples in voluntary isolation, and peoples in
isolated and remote localities and displaced peoples from indigenous communities.
The Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on the human rights and
fundamental freedoms of indigenous people pay special attention in his annual
reports to the situation of these peoples. The Forum also considers that the situation
of these peoples should be the subject of a special international meeting during the
Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.
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