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campaigns should include several elements including school-based outreach,
national conferences, local workshops, media activities, including phone-in radio
programmes and televised debates, essay and expression contests and service days.
99. The United Nations Children’s Fund should initiate country-specific situation
analyses of indigenous youth and children through field offices in countries with
indigenous communities and transmit such situation analyses to the Forum.
States
100. Youth employment poverty-reduction strategies of States and the
intergovernmental system should especially focus on indigenous youth, women and
men, who are among the most marginalized within the current economic system.
Addressing the needs of indigenous youth will also help to achieve Millennium
Development Goal 3 and address pressures and problems arising from mass rural-tourban migration.
101. Governments should support training in sustainable consumption towards a
sustainable lifestyle and follow up initiatives, including networks and small grants.
102. Special emphasis should be placed by States on the involvement of city and
local government authorities in engaging and supporting young indigenous people to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals at the local level. Priorities for local
authorities should include the creation of local youth councils with the participation
of indigenous youth in decision-making, the provision of meeting spaces for young
people to gather and coordinate projects, develop youth leadership, support for
youth artistic and cultural expression, promotion of sport for development and peace
and access to information and communication technologies.
Indigenous peoples organizations
103. The Forum, recalling its recommendation at its second session3 regarding an
art competition among indigenous children for a logo/visual identifier for the
Forum, decides to renew for another year its call for the submission of artwork by
indigenous children, and calls for as wide a dissemination of information on the
competition as possible so that the artwork can be received in time for the Forum’s
selection at the fifth session.
104. The Forum urges States and United Nations agencies to support the attendance
and participation of indigenous youth at future sessions of the Permanent Forum.
105. The Forum urges the members of the advisory council for the Voluntary Fund
for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People to allocate
funds to indigenous youth-initiated projects and activities.
(b)
Indigenous women
106. The Forum emphasizes the unique contributions made by indigenous women
within their families, communities and nations and at the international level in terms
of possessing and transmitting intergenerationally a wealth of traditional knowledge
on the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable environment management.
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 23 (E/2003/43E/C.19/2003/22), para. 18.
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