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protection policies and systems to prevent undue removal of Indigenous children from
their families and communities.
63. The Permanent Forum encourages national human rights institutions to promote
the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the national
and international levels, in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples.
64. The Permanent Forum reminds the Secretary-General, through the Assistant
Secretary-General for Human Rights, on the continuing relevance of monitoring and
reporting on trends related to intimidation and reprisals against Indigenous Peoples
who seek to engage with the United Nations. Indigenous Peoples’ representatives
have a right to be protected from reprisals for their participation in meetings at the
United Nations, including the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert
Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
65. The Permanent Forum calls upon Canada to re-examine its support for the
Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline, which jeopardizes the Great Lakes in the United States.
The pipeline presents a real and credible threat to the treaty-protected fishing rights
of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada. The Permanent Forum
recommends that Canada and the United States decommission Line 5.
Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues considered by the
Economic and Social Council, the outcome document of the World Conference
on Indigenous Peoples and emerging issues (item 6)
66. The Permanent Forum recalls that the outcome document of the World
Conference on Indigenous Peoples of 2014 and the Alta outcome document contained
an express call to Member States to consider means and modalities of enhancing the
participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions in the United
Nations system. Further recalling General Assembly resolution 71/321, and
recognizing that additional work is needed to fulfil the decisions of the resolution, the
Permanent Forum welcomes the consultations held in New York by the President of
the General Assembly but notes that the regional consultations encouraged in the
resolution never occurred.
67. The Permanent Forum welcomes the work of the Indigenous Coordinating Body
for Enhanced Participation in the United Nations in furthering the objectives of
resolution 71/321 and agrees on the need to establish a new and distinct status for
Indigenous Peoples’ participation at the General Assembly. It also welcomes the
organization in November 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of the expert workshop on enhanced
participation in the Human Rights Council. The Permanent Forum looks forward to
reading the report and the recommendations from the workshop when they are
submitted to the Human Rights Council prior to its fifty-third session. The Permanent
Forum calls upon the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly to ensure
further progress on this vital matter. The Permanent Forum encourages Member States
to financially support the work of the Indigenous Coordinating Body.
68. The Permanent Forum recognizes that there are certain aspects of enhanced
participation that can be accomplished only by Member States. However, the
Permanent Forum will consider ways to enhance participation at the Permanent
Forum, such as through appropriate ways of recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ decisionmaking bodies in its own modalities.
69. The Permanent Forum recommends that, in 2025, the General Assembly
convene a high-level plenary meeting known as the “World Conference on Indigenous
Peoples Plus 10” to evaluate the progress on the commitments made in the outcome
document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. Furthermore, the
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