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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Forum also
welcomes the designation by the Secretary-General of the Under-Secretary-General
for Economic and Social Affairs as the senior official within the United Nat ions to
coordinate action in follow-up to the outcome document, including the system-wide
action plan to ensure a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United
Nations Declaration.
6.
The Permanent Forum recommends that States, indigenous peoples a nd United
Nations agencies, funds and programmes immediately engage in a consultative
process focused on the full and effective implementation of the outcome document
at the local, national, regional and international levels. It also recommends that the
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs outline and provide his
vision of a procedure to guarantee the direct participation of representatives of
indigenous peoples, including the expert members of the Forum, in the preparation
and coordination of the system-wide action plan, with the objective of promoting
and protecting the human rights of indigenous peoples and to enhance and increase
the coherence of the activities of the United Nations system in that regard. The
Forum invites the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs to
inform the Forum on the progress at its fifteenth session.
7.
The Permanent Forum recommends that the General Assembly consider
establishing a new procedure, in collaboration with indigenous peoples, to gu arantee
the effective participation of representatives of indigenous peoples and, in
particular, indigenous governance institutions, in the seventieth session of the
Assembly, including a corresponding accreditation mechanism.
8.
The Permanent Forum welcomes the interest expressed at the interactive
dialogue on the follow-up to the World Conference held by the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs on 22 April 2015, in which States and indigenous
peoples stressed the importance of repatriating ceremonial objects and human
remains. The Forum therefore recommends that States and indigenous peoples
establish a working group to prepare a manual of good practice with regard to the
repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains, with the support of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other United
Nations entities, and submit a progress report to the Forum at its fifteenth session.
Post-2015 development agenda
9.
The Permanent Forum acknowledges the rich presentation of speakers and
active participation of States, United Nations agencies, indigenous peoples and
others in the high-level stocktaking event convened by the President of the sixtyninth session of the General Assembly on the post-2015 development agenda in
September 2014. The Forum takes note of the serious concerns raised by indigenous
peoples over the lack of explicit reference to and inclusion of indigenous peoples as
distinct groups with collective rights in the development of the goals and targets of
the development agenda. The Forum reaffirms the need to ensure that the
development agenda will be fully aligned with the United Nations Declaration as
well as international human rights obligations and commitments of States.
10. The Permanent Forum requests that States incorporate commitments made in
the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples into the
development of the post-2015 development agenda, especially the action points on
data disaggregation, land rights, traditional knowledge, the implementation of free,
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