E/2018/43 E/C.19/2018/11 target 3 of Sustainable Development Goal 2, which calls for secure and equal access to land. 12. The Permanent Forum calls on States, in consultation with indigenous peoples, to establish national judicial institutions tasked with identifying lands, waters, coastal waters and other resources to which the indigenous peoples concerned have established ownership and usufruct rights, and to demarcate such lands and resources. 13. The Permanent Forum draws attention to the number of reports, from around the world, of acts of intimidation and reprisal, including restrictions on the ability of representatives of indigenous peoples to attend the Forum’s sessions. Indigenous leaders and human rights defenders face disproportionately high rates of intimidation and reprisal, as shown by various studies, including by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. 14. Given that the United Nations relies on the cooperation of the people whom it serves and that everyone, individually and in association with others, has the right to unhindered access to and communication with the Organization, the Permanen t Forum requests the Secretary-General, through the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights and in consultation with other relevant United Nations mechanisms, to report on trends related to intimidation and reprisals against indigenous peoples who seek to engage with the United Nations, including by providing suggestions to prevent and address reprisals through reporting from all parts of the United Nations system and with input from indigenous peoples, to the Forum at its eighteenth session, in 2019. 2 15. The Permanent Forum continues to be concerned that the World Bank’s new environmental and social safeguard 7 allows the conversion of the collective territories of indigenous peoples into individual ownership rights, even though it recognizes the importance of protecting the collective attachment of indigenous peoples to their lands. Providing funding for States to divide the lands of indigenous peoples generates conflict, irreparably harms livelihoods and traditional resource management strategies and erodes the governance structures of indigenous peoples. Paragraph 29 of environmental and social safeguard 7 should urgently be revised to ensure that indigenous peoples maintain their collective rights to lands, territories and resources in all projects funded by the Bank. 16. The Forum reiterates its request to the Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators to make the land -related indicator operational, including on changing land use and the security of land tenure in the traditional territories of indigenous peoples. 17. The Permanent Forum urges all agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system to incorporate the recognition of the collective rights of indigenous peoples to lands, territories and resources into their policies and programmes at the country level and to report to the Forum on progress made at its eighteenth session. 18. The Permanent Forum expresses its concern for the indigenous peoples of certain African countries, who continue to be victims of violations of their rights to lands, territories and resources. Multiple threats and obstacles hinder their social, economic, political and legal development, including discrimination and marginalization; lack of rights to land and natural and productive res ources; denial and lack of access to justice; violations of cultural rights; denial of the rights to legal recognition, political representation and participation; lack of access to basic social services; denial of the right to existence and self-development; violence against indigenous individuals and communities, including rape of indigenous women; and __________________ 2 18-07701 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Reprisals/Pages/ReprisalsIndex.aspx. 7/26