E/2002/43/Rev.1 E/CN.19/2002/3/Rev.1 knowledge; and to identify a support system for indigenous peoples to develop and consolidate their own policies and principles for the protection of biological resources, traditional knowledge, innovations and creativity, including modes of access and benefit-sharing, with the free and prior informed consent of indigenous peoples and local communities. 30. The Forum requests that its members be invited to attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development and sessions of the Commission on Sustainable Development, the conferences of parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Forum on Forests, as observers. 7. Children and youth 31. The Forum intends to make indigenous children and youth a focal point of its work in the years to come. The Forum decides to: (a) Request that UNICEF, as the nodal agency of children, prepare a report on the policies, guidelines and programmes of United Nations agencies (including but not limited to WHO, UNAIDS, UNESCO, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, FAO, the ILO and UNDP) with regard to the ways in which they address the specific needs of indigenous children; (b) Request that UNICEF provide information from the multi-indicator cluster survey, disaggregating data on the antenatal health, birth, registration, immunization and early childhood development of indigenous children; (c) Request that the Committee on the Rights of the Child and other monitoring bodies, including special rapporteurs and representatives of the United Nations system that have both specific mandates and implications for the rights and issues of children, pay special attention to and report on how they address the needs of indigenous children; (d) Recommend the appointment of a special rapporteur on indigenous children, as an external expert, for a period of three years to prepare reports for the Forum to analyse and assess the situation of indigenous children from a holistic perspective and to evaluate the current policies, guidelines and programmes of relevant United Nations agencies which address their needs. A final in-depth report would be submitted to the Forum at the end of his/her term; (e) Call upon the Committee on the Rights of the Child to declare indigenous children as the subject for its theme day in September 2004. 8. Code of conduct for the members of the Forum 32. The Forum decides to elaborate a code of conduct for its members based on, inter alia, the principles of respect, accountability, a holistic approach, transparency and consensus. 9