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Eliminate Violence against Women, administered by UN-Women, take into account
the need to enhance the human rights and situation of indigenous women and girls.
111. The Permanent Forum recommends that the efforts by Member States, the
United Nations system and regional organizations to implement Security Council
resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security, in particular to promote
the participation of women in conflict prevention, conflict management and postconflict peacebuilding, take into account the effects of armed conflict on indigenous
women, and recommends that in her work, the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict pay particular attention to the
situation of indigenous women in armed conflict.
112. The Permanent Forum recommends that indigenous women and their views be
duly represented in the discussions and outcomes of upcoming United Nations
meetings and conferences, including the high-level meeting on addressing
desertification, land degradation and drought in the context of sustainable
development and poverty eradication, to be held in September 2011; the fifty-sixth
session of the Commission on the Status of Women, themed “The empowerment of
rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and
current challenges”, to be held in February and March 2012; and the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), to be held in June 2012.
113. The Permanent Forum has decided to appoint members of the Forum, Eva
Biaudet, Megan Davis, Helen Kaljuläte and Valmaine Toki, to undertake a study on
the extent of violence against indigenous women and girls in terms of article 22 (2)
of the Declaration, to be submitted to the Forum at its eleventh session, in 2012.
114. The Permanent Forum encourages United Nations agencies, in particular
UN-Women, UNFPA, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNDP and
UNICEF, to cooperate with and, if necessary, support the creation and consolidation
of a global watch mechanism (observatory) led by indigenous women and focusing
on collecting, organizing and monitoring information on violence against indigenous
women and girls to provide greater visibility of and enhance advocacy for political
action on the issue.
115. The Permanent Forum reiterates the recommendation contained in paragraph
12 of the report on its third session (E/2004/43-E/C.19/2004/23) and requests that
the International Organization for Migration, OHCHR, UN-Women, UNICEF, the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime and ILO report periodically to the Permanent Forum on
their progress in addressing the problems faced by indigenous migrant women and
girls, including the alarming trend of trafficking within and across national and
international borders.
116. The Permanent Forum urges Member States to ratify United Nations and
regional instruments combating trafficking in human beings, in particular the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, supplementing the Convention, and to establish transparent selfmonitoring mechanisms to gather information on human trafficking and related
phenomena, including the situation of indigenous women and children.
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