A/HRC/33/42/Add.1 E. Health, education and social services 71. Brazil has made efforts to improve and adapt its service provision in relation to indigenous health care, education and social services. However, indicators of indigenous youth suicide, cases of illegal adoption of indigenous children, infant mortality and alcoholism, violence against indigenous women and the accelerated loss of indigenous languages reflect the ongoing lack of culturally appropriate services. 72. The Special Rapporteur is particularly concerned about the health impacts of illegal mining and the use of mercury in Yanomami lands. Their experience and the challenges they face are illustrative of the integral relationship between indigenous peoples’ health, education and cultural rights and the realization of their territorial and self-governance rights. F. Capacity of the National Indian Foundation, paternalism and indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact 73. Recently proposed measures to reduce FUNAI budget and staff run completely counter to the demands of indigenous peoples in Brazil. They are also at odds with the recommendations of the previous mandate holder, who had stressed the need to strengthen FUNAI to enable the State to fulfil its legal obligations concerning the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights. 74. Despite its challenges, FUNAI appears to have made progress in its efforts to overcome paternalistic postures towards indigenous peoples. However, unless FUNAI is properly supported, this progress is vulnerable to setbacks. Entrenched discrimination and paternalistic views appear to continue to inform law-making, policymaking and judicial decisions by many administrative bodies and authorities. Many regard the current political and institutional weakening of FUNAI as symptomatic of the State’s resistance to fully transition to new relationships with indigenous peoples, based on self-determination. 75. The work of FUNAI in relation to indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation is premised on respect for the principle of non-contact, which is understood as a core element of the right of peoples in isolation to self-determination, and has served to inform the guidelines of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and to influence the policies developed by neighbouring countries. In this regard, FUNAI has an important role to play as a contributor to the work of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, an intergovernmental body established to address the situation of cross-border indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation or initial contact and to promote high-level regional dialogue on the treaty. The Special Rapporteur is, however, concerned that missionary activity is posing a threat to indigenous peoples in initial contact as well as to the traditional forms or organization and autonomy of other remote indigenous groups. G. Safeguards of the Brazilian Development Bank 76. Despite reassurances from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) that impacts on indigenous peoples are adequately considered in the projects it funds, the Special Rapporteur is concerned that its safeguards and practices are inadequate to ensure protection of indigenous peoples’ rights, in particular in the light of the Belo Monte experience and the massive loans provided to agribusiness corporations allegedly involved in evictions and violence against indigenous peoples. 16