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establishment of an ad hoc committee consisting of indigenous representatives or
experts.
94. The Permanent Forum notes the mission to Bolivia and Paraguay and thanks
the Governments of both countries for their invitations. This mission came about
following the Forum’s recommendation regarding the situation of forced labour of
Guarani communities at its seventh session. The Permanent Forum welcomes the
mission as a good practice and decides to publish the reports of the mission as
official documents. The Forum urges United Nations country teams to follow up the
recommendations of these reports and suggests to the relevant Governments that
they report on the implementation of these recommendations at the ninth session of
the Forum in 2010.
95. The Permanent Forum commends the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people for his efforts on
behalf of indigenous peoples around the world and recommends that he continue his
work in conformity with the principles he has established.
96. The Permanent Forum welcomes cooperation with the Special Rapporteur and
the Human Rights Council expert mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples,
which is to be conducted in order to ensure maximum complementarity of efforts.
97. The Permanent Forum calls on States to consult with indigenous peoples in a
manner that fully respects their obligations under the Declaration and fully responds
to the goals, needs and rights of indigenous peoples in the development and design
of relevant legislation.
98. The Permanent Forum reiterates its previous recommendations that those
States that have not already done so adopt or endorse, where applicable, the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, ILO Convention No. 169 and the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
99. The Permanent Forum welcomes the effort of the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) to establish a regional human rights mechanism and offers
its expertise and cooperation in this matter. The Forum recommends that the
mechanism be called the “ASEAN Human Rights Commission” and that the
commission explicitly recognize indigenous peoples in its terms of reference. We
look forward to a strong commission with full investigatory and implementation
powers, which uses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples as its framework in dealing with indigenous peoples’ issues. The Forum
also recommends that the commission establish a committee on indigenous peoples
in addition to its proposed committees on migrant workers and women and children.
100. The Permanent Forum joins international concern regarding violent actions by
some States against indigenous peoples for asserting their customary rights to their
lands and territories.
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