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entities, by 2027, to establish structured mechanisms of engagement with Indigenous
Peoples, including Indigenous women, to ensure that Indigenous knowledge systems
are accorded due weight in policies, programmes and decisions that affect them.
57. The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation during its twenty-fourth
session for Member States, by 2028, to develop and operationalize comprehensive,
rights‑based disaggregated data frameworks, co‑designed with Indigenous Peoples
and inclusive of Indigenous‑defined indicators and data governance safeguards. The
Forum further urges Member States and United Nations entities to ensure that, by
2027, national statistical offices and relevant institutions receive targeted training on
Indigenous-defined indicators and ethical, rights‑based data collection, with the
meaningful participation of Indigenous experts.
58. As recognized by the Permanent Forum at its twenty‑fourth session, Indigenous
Peoples are adversely affected by armed conflict and violence yet remain excluded
from peacebuilding. Recalling their rights to life, integrity, liberty and security and to
live collectively in peace, as affirmed in the Declaration, the Forum calls on Member
States to ensure, by 2027, the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples
in all peace processes, and to implement, by 2030, peace agreements reached with
their participation, in partnership with Indigenous Peoples’ representative institutions
and with adequate resourcing.
59. The Permanent Forum calls upon Member States to ensure compliance with
international law and to refrain from intimidating and persecuting Indigenous
Peoples, including Indigenous leaders and Indigenous human rights defenders.
60. To prevent further harm to Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum calls on
the Russian Federation to comply with Security Council resolution 2774 (2025),
which implores a swift end to the conflict and further urges a lasting peace between
Ukraine and the Russian Federation, and to uphold the order of the International Court
of Justice dated 16 March 2022, which states that the Russian Federation should
immediately suspend the military operations in the territory of Ukraine.
61. The Permanent Forum calls on Member States, by 2027, to reform criminal
justice laws, policies and practices in order to eliminate barriers to access to justice
for Indigenous Peoples, including by ensuring culturally safe, trauma‑informed and
gender‑responsive policing, legal aid, adjudication, language and detention services
for Indigenous women and children. It further urges Member States, by 2030, to
reduce the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Peoples, including through
diversion, restorative justice and non‑custodial measures, and to prohibit and prevent
the use of solitary confinement for Indigenous detainees, in full compliance with the
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson
Mandela Rules), supported by independent oversight, disaggregated data collection
and regular public reporting.
62. The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation during its twenty-fourth
session and calls on Member States, by 2027, to initiate and sustain structured
dialogues with Indigenous Peoples on identity, equality and non‑discrimination,
grounded in the minimum standards reflected in the United Nations working
definition of Indigenous Peoples, International Labour Organization Convention
No. 169 and the principle of self‑identification. The Forum further urges Member
States, by 2028, to review and repeal race‑based legislation and policies, including
those based on blood quantum, that undermine Indigenous Peoples’ rights to identity
and self‑determination. In this regard, the Forum calls on Canada to take immediate
and concrete legislative measures to fully and finally eliminate all remaining gender
discrimination in the Indian Act, in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and in
accordance with international human rights standards.
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