E/2007/43 E/C.19/2007/12 B. 7. Half-day discussion on indigenous languages. 8. Ongoing priorities and themes and follow-up: (a) Indigenous children and youth; (b) Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People; (c) Urban indigenous peoples and migration. 9. Future work of the Permanent Forum, including emerging issues. 10. Draft agenda for the eighth session of the Permanent Forum. 11. Adoption of the report of the Permanent Forum on its seventh session. Matters brought to the attention of the Council 2. The Permanent Forum has identified the proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action set out below and, through the Council, recommends that States, entities of the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations assist in their realization. 3. It is the understanding of the Secretariat that the proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action to be carried out by the United Nations, as set out below, will be implemented to the extent that resources from the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources are available. Recommendations of the Permanent Forum Special theme: “Territories, lands and natural resources” 4. The elements of the special theme of the Permanent Forum for its sixth session, “Territories, lands and natural resources”, are of fundamental importance to indigenous peoples since they constitute the basis of their life, existence and economic livelihood, and are the sources of their spiritual, cultural and social identity. 5. Land is the foundation of the lives and cultures of indigenous peoples all over the world. This is why the protection of their right to lands, territories and natural resources is a key demand of the international indigenous peoples’ movement and of indigenous peoples and organizations everywhere. It is also clear that most local and national indigenous peoples’ movements have emerged from struggles against policies and actions that have undermined and discriminated against their customary land tenure and resource management systems, expropriated their lands, extracted their resources without their consent and led to their displacement and dispossession from their territories. Without access to and respect for their rights over their lands, territories and natural resources, the survival of indigenous peoples’ particular distinct cultures is threatened. 6. Land rights, access to land and control over it and its resources are central to indigenous peoples throughout the world, and they depend on such rights and access for their material and cultural survival. In order to survive as distinct peoples, 2 07-37675