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promotion of women’s full and equal participation and leadership in all governance and
decision-making in the pursuit of climate justice, conservation and sustainable
environmental solutions;
(e)
Develop, in consultation with indigenous women, culturally appropriate
education programmes to preserve and revitalize indigenous languages and ensure
intergenerational knowledge transmission. That should include indigenous women-led
and family-centred early childhood education systems to further transference of
knowledge to the next generations. Also include intercultural education models, in
coordination with indigenous peoples, by including indigenous women’s knowledge in
the school curricula at all levels of education;
(f)
Create and support national, regional and local platforms for indigenous
women to exchange and preserve their knowledge;
(g)
Recognize indigenous women as the legitimate rights holders of their
knowledge and adopt, in consultation with indigenous peoples and in accordance with
international human rights standards, national legal and policy frameworks that
protect indigenous women’s knowledge and intellectual property, including their
scientific products, agricultural, spiritual and artisanal knowledge and medicine, and
establish safeguards against the misappropriation of their knowledge and lack of
benefit sharing;
(h)
Improve access to high-quality, culturally appropriate and nondiscriminatory health care for indigenous women that is respectful of indigenous
knowledge and cultural practices. Provide human and financial resources to recognize
and promote indigenous scientific knowledge as part of State health systems, including
support for indigenous women’s knowledge of midwifery, maternal health and early
childhood care in order to ensure intercultural health services;
(i)
Recognize indigenous knowledge as a preferential requirement during the
hiring process for professionals, such as park rangers, teachers and midwives;
(j)
Institute or strengthen efforts to prevent and respond to widespread
violence against indigenous women and girls, including the implementation of culturally
sensitive programmes, prioritizing support for indigenous women-led, communitybased anti-violence strategies;
(k)
Combat all forms of violence, intimidation and threats against indigenous
women defending their lands, territories and resources and halt the criminalization of
indigenous conservation and agricultural practices;
(l)
Design, in collaboration with indigenous peoples, effective restorative
mechanisms, which may include restitution and compensation for damage or loss, with
respect to their cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without
their free, prior and informed consent, or in violation of their laws;
(m)
Recognize indigenous place names by renaming geographic locations;
(n)
Incorporate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples into national law. Ratify, if pending, and implement the Convention on
Biological Diversity, the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and
other relevant instruments that protect the rights of indigenous peoples.
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The Special Rapporteur recommends that international organizations:
(a)
Adopt the terminology “indigenous scientific and technical knowledge” in
place of “traditional” or “customary” knowledge;
(b)
Ensure the meaningful participation of indigenous women in the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the post-2020 global
biodiversity framework;
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