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Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), of ILO, the Regional Agreement on Access to
Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin
America and the Caribbean, known as the Escazú Agreement, and the jurisprudence
of the human rights treaty bodies. Furthermore, the Per manent Forum recognizes the
work of the Human Rights Council to develop an international legally binding
instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of
transnational corporations and other business enterprises. In that respect , the
Permanent Forum stresses the need to ensure that the new instrument affirms
indigenous peoples’ rights, including with regard to free, prior and informed consent.
The Permanent Forum recommends that this instrument explicitly define due
diligence processes and their specific methods of implementation. Therefore, the
Permanent Forum underlines the importance of full and effective participation by
indigenous peoples throughout the development of the instrument.
23. The Permanent Forum invites the United Nations Global Compact to lead a
study on how the human rights of indigenous peoples can be integrated into the model
guidance for stock exchanges when reporting on environmental, social and
governance information for their market, and report on its progr ess to the Permanent
Forum at its twenty-second session, to be held in 2023.
Dialogues: thematic dialogues (item 5 (f))
International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022–2032
24. The Permanent Forum welcomes the proclamation by the General Assembly in
its resolution 74/135 of the period 2022–2032 as the International Decade of
Indigenous Languages. The Permanent Forum also welcomes the global launch of the
International Decade and commends the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Global Task Force for Making a Decade of
Action for Indigenous Languages for leading the consultations with St ates and
indigenous peoples in all sociocultural regions, as well as for developing the Global
Action Plan of the International Decade.
25. The Permanent Forum encourages the General Assembly and UNESCO, in
collaboration with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, to organize highlevel launch events for the International Decade, in cooperation with, and with the
full and effective participation of, indigenous peoples.
26. The Permanent Forum welcomes the establishment of the Ibero -American
Institute of Indigenous Languages to promote the conservation, revitalization,
promotion, use and development of indigenous languages.
27. The Permanent Forum urges Member States and all other relevant actors at all
levels, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, to issue their action plans by the end
of 2022, and that they subsequently monitor their implementation and update them
with specific measurement indicators every three years during the International
Decade.
28. The Permanent Forum supports the efforts of UNESCO to mobilize resources
for the creation of a financial mechanism for the International Decade. The Permanent
Forum encourages Member States and the private sector to contribute to this
mechanism. Indigenous peoples’ representatives should advise on the granting of
funds to initiatives.
29. The Permanent Forum recognizes the important interconnections between the
Sustainable Development Goals and indigenous languages, as well as the integration
of gender equality principles, as described in the Global Action Plan, and proposes
that such indicators be included in the post-2030 development agenda to ensure the
sustainability of outcomes and the continuity of efforts established by the
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