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27. The Permanent Forum notes that representatives of extractive industries,
although invited, were unable to attend the International Expert Workshop on
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Corporate Accountability and the Extractive Industries,
held in Manila from 27 to 29 March 2009. The Forum also notes that the
International Council on Mining and Metals is in the process of developing a set of
voluntary guidelines for the industry for engagement with indigenous peoples. The
Forum invites the Council at the conclusion of the development of the guidelines to
forward a copy to the secretariat of the Permanent Forum. The Forum decides to
forward a copy of the report of the International Expert Workshop to the
International Council on Mining and Metals.
Indigenous women
28. The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations Population Fund
organize, in coordination with the secretariat of the Forum an international expert
workshop on the theme “Indigenous peoples and health, with special emphasis on
sexual and reproductive health”, and that a report of the expert workshop be
submitted to the Forum at its ninth session, in 2010.
29. The Permanent Forum invites the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of
migrants to prepare a study on the situation of indigenous women migrants.
30. The Permanent Forum urges States, with the effective participation of
indigenous peoples, to address the concomitant loss of community citizenship and
human rights when indigenous peoples are forced to migrate or are displaced by
violent conflicts, with a particular emphasis on indigenous women.
31. In the context of the United Nations system-wide coherence, in particular
gender equality architecture reform, the Permanent Forum recommends that States
and the United Nations system ensure the inclusion of the priorities and demands of
indigenous women.
32. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Division for the Advancement of
Women of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs guarantee
the participation of indigenous women during the 15-year review of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action at the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on
the Status of Women, in 2010.
33. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Inter-agency Support Group on
Indigenous Peoples’ Issues convene an international technical expert seminar on
indicators of the well-being of indigenous peoples to discuss indicators that could be
used in monitoring the situation of indigenous peoples and the implementation of
the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Furthermore,
the Forum recommends that relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, States and
indigenous peoples conduct assessments of the extent to which they have advanced
the recommendations of the Forum on indigenous women, utilizing the framework
of the Declaration, as set out by the International Indigenous Women’s Forum.
Action for the immediate implementation of these recommendations is required by
all.
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34. The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States, United Nations
agencies and indigenous peoples’ organizations engage actively in the midterm
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