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Forum invites those organizations to present their findings at the annual session o f
the Permanent Forum to be held in 2024.
74. The Permanent Forum underlines the need for the examination of national
practices for preserving the sacred and burial sites of indigenous peoples and for the
provision of recommendations to States and United Nations entities on ways to
prevent the loss of sacred, religious, spiritual and burial sites.
75. The Permanent Forum welcomes the $1.7 billion pledge in support of
indigenous peoples made by Governments and private funders at the twenty -sixth
session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change, held in Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland. However, the Permanent Forum is concerned that this pledge does not
adequately address the effects of climate change. An effective response to the
challenges presented by global climate change requires a concerted effort that
encompasses all seven sociocultural regions of the world. The Permanent Forum
requests that the pledge-givers include indigenous peoples from all seven
sociocultural regions as recipients and redefine the scope of their commitment so that
the funding is not only about forests and land tenure, but also reflects indigenous
peoples’ self-determination, the building of alliances and the strengthening of
indigenous peoples’ local economies, governance systems and resource management
strategies.
76. The Permanent Forum urges the World Food Programme to respect the habitual
diet of indigenous peoples and to avoid the introduction of foreign foods of low
nutritional quality in indigenous peoples’ communities. Furthermore, the Permanent
Forum urges the World Food Programme to ensure that its methods of intervention
are sensitive to indigenous peoples’ social fabric and respectful of their perceptions
of the humanitarian-development nexus.
77. The Permanent Forum requests that FAO and the United Nations Environment
Programme, with the participation of indigenous peoples, develop a technical policy
paper on indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural
resources in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance
of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security for
submission to the Committee on World Food Security.
78. The Permanent Forum recommends that the WHO incorporate indigenous
peoples’ cultures into the social determinants of health policies. The Permanent
Forum urges WHO to review, update and expand its policy on indigenous peoples ’
health. The Permanent Forum invites WHO to contribute to the work of the Permanent
Forum at its twenty-second session on the health of indigenous peoples.
Indigenous women and girls
79. The Permanent Forum heard from the Special Rapporteur on violence against
women, its causes and consequences on her upcoming report on violence against
indigenous women and girls to be presented at the fiftieth session of the Human
Rights Council. The Permanent Forum commends the work of the Special Rapporteur
on the causes and consequences of violence against indigenous women and girls and
looks forward to studying her report.
80. The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation made at its eighteenth
session for the Pan American Health Organization to prepare a study on the
advancements in indigenous maternal health, including with the participation of
indigenous midwives (E/2019/43, para. 45). The Permanent Forum also recommends
that WHO prepare similar studies in other regions.
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