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could be considered in the study include cultural identity, equitable access to
essential services, the challenges facing indigenous youth and border issues.
112. The Permanent Forum urges States that have not yet done so to ratify the
Convention of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
113. Considering the family separations caused by migration, and the psychological
impact on men, children and women left behind, the Permanent Forum recommends
that UNICEF:
(a) Conduct a comprehensive study on the effects of remittances and the
psychosocial and cultural impact of migrations;
(b) Promote programmes to ensure continuity between countries of origin
and destination in order to ensure continuity in indigenous children’s relationships
with their migrant parents and the protection of migrant children;
(c) Support programmes for the protection of the rights of men, children and
women left behind.
114. The Permanent Forum urges UNICEF and UNIFEM to include urban and
migrant indigenous women and their children in their relevant studies on violence
against women.
115. The Permanent Forum recommends that relevant States, in cooperation with
the indigenous peoples concerned, establish indigenous peoples’ centres in urban
areas to address their medical needs and provide legal and other forms of assistance.
116. The Permanent Forum recommends that relevant States recognize indigenous
peoples’ right to prior, free and informed consent and provide support mechanisms
for involuntarily displaced indigenous peoples to be able to return to their original
communities, including appropriate forms of repatriation, compensation and
restitution and provision for the sustainable livelihoods of those peoples.
117. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on the human
rights of migrants pay special attention to the vulnerability of urban and migrant
indigenous persons.
118. The Permanent Forum recommends that States, in order to combat the adverse
effects of migration, cooperate with indigenous peoples to provide employment and
economic development opportunities within their territories.
Ongoing activities and themes (data collection and disaggregation of data on
indigenous peoples)
119. The Permanent Forum welcomes the reports on the various regional, thematic
and international workshops on indicators organized by indigenous peoples’
organizations in collaboration with the secretariats of the Forum and the Convention
on Biological Diversity. Appreciating that these workshops are the beginning of a
long-term process, the Permanent Forum invites those organizations to continue
building indigenous partnerships on indicators and to carry out the concrete
activities identified in their reports, together with Governments, United Nations
agencies and technical experts.
120. The Permanent Forum thanks the Agencia Española de Cooperación
Internacional of the Government of Spain, the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
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