Contents Chapter Page Matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council or brought to its attention . . . . 1 A. Draft decisions recommended by the Forum for adoption by the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. Workshop on the collection of data concerning indigenous peoples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. High-level segment of the substantive session of 2006 of the Economic and Social Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 III. Participation of members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 IV. Bureau of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 V. Venue and dates for the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2 VI. Provisional agenda and documentation for the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 VII. Proposal for a second international decade of the world’s indigenous peoples . . . . . 3 Matters brought to the attention of the Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1. Indigenous children and youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Economic and social development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4. Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5. Human rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6. Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7. Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 8. Methods of work of the Forum with the United Nations system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 9. Future of the work of the Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 II. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 III. Theme of the session: “Indigenous children and youth” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 IV. Methods of work of the Forum with the United Nations system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 V. Mandated areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 VI. Future work of the Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 VII. Provisional agenda for the third session of the Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 VIII. Adoption of the report of the Forum on its second session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 I. B. iii