E/2007/43 E/C.19/2007/12 arrangements pertaining to indigenous peoples when undertaking its universal periodic review of States members. 92. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Human Rights Council update and complete the United Nations study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations, 13 including the possible appointment of a rapporteur to carry out this task and to provide regular reports to the Human Rights Council, the Permanent Forum and other appropriate bodies. 93. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Human Rights Council consider the development of a framework for the implementation of article 37 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as adopted by the Human Rights Council, to assess implementation of treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples in all regions of the world. 94. The Permanent Forum notes the recommendation that the third seminar on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples, as called for by the Commission on Human Rights, will take place in Waitangi, Aotearoa, New Zealand, in February 2008, and that OHCHR will organize the seminar in cooperation with the indigenous host communities, States, indigenous organizations and appropriate United Nations bodies. 95. The Permanent Forum recommends that relevant States with indigenous peoples invite the Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples to undertake country visits. The Special Rapporteur should give priority to invitations from those countries where indigenous peoples have expressed concerns about their capacity to fully enjoy and freely exercise their human rights. 96. The Permanent Forum calls upon all States that have ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to develop, at national level, in partnership with indigenous peoples, benchmarks, timelines and indicators to measure progressive realization of indigenous human rights. Furthermore, the Permanent Forum supports the efforts to elaborate an optional protocol to allow for the submission of complaints under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Half-day discussion on Asia 97. Asia is the most diverse continent in the world. Two thirds of the world’s indigenous peoples live in Asia, which is home to more than 2,000 civilizations and languages. Indigenous peoples in Asia are referred to as tribes, tribal peoples, hill tribes, ethnic or national minorities. Irrespective of their legal status or the different terminologies used for them, many indigenous peoples of Asia experience nonrecognition of their cultural identity, exclusion and marginalization, displacement and relocation from their traditional territories, including protected areas, and dispossession of their lands and resources by State policies and programmes and by State and private corporations engaged in logging, large-scale plantations, mega hydroelectric dams and extractive industries. The panellists for the half-day session on Asia included the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and __________________ 13 07-37675 E/CN.4/Sub2/1999/20. 17