E/2006/43 E/C.19/2006/11 “Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action” 12 adopted by the Commission on 11 March 2005. Indigenous children and youth 57. The Permanent Forum confirms its commitment to making indigenous children and youth an ongoing part of its work. In so doing, it acknowledges the efforts made by organizations representing indigenous peoples, United Nations bodies and States to address the urgent needs of indigenous children and youth, including in the areas of education, health, culture, extreme poverty, mortality, sexual exploitation, militarization, displacement, removal by missionaries, incarceration and labour, among others. 58. The Permanent Forum is deeply concerned that the problems and discrimination facing indigenous children and youth are not reflected in the Millennium Development Goals, and it urges States and United Nations organizations to develop culturally sensitive policies, programmes and projects that fully incorporate indigenous children and youth into achieving the Goals. 59. The Permanent Forum reiterates its call upon those States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child 13 and to report on and speed up the implementation of the Permanent Forum’s recommendations made at its fourth session. 14 60. The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation to the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues to organize a workshop on policies and best practices in engaging indigenous youth and children on the prevention of suicide among them and to report to the Permanent Forum at its next session (2007). 61. The Permanent Forum urges United Nations organizations to speed up the implementation of the recommendations made by the Permanent Forum at its fourth session. 15 62. The Permanent Forum urges UNICEF as the United Nations central agency on children to speed up the implementation of recommendations made by the Permanent Forum at previous sessions that so far have not been addressed, including its recommendation to adopt a policy relating to indigenous youth and children. 63. The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation that UNICEF appoint a goodwill ambassador for indigenous children and youth to raise awareness of their precarious situation. 64. The Permanent Forum supports the declaration and recommendations made by indigenous children and adolescents during the Ibero-American Meeting on the Rights of Indigenous Children and Adolescents, held on 7 and 8 July 2005 in Madrid. The Forum welcomes such an initiative, which was organized by the UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean jointly with indigenous peoples, and recommends that all States and United Nations __________________ 12 13 14 15 Ibid., 2005, Supplement No. 7 (E/2005/27), chap. I, sect. D. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 23 (E/2005/43), chap. I, paras. 100, 102 and 104. Ibid., paras. 97-99. 11