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Diversity, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), other relevant agencies, including the Forum and relevant indigenous
organizations and non-governmental organizations, and decides to send the Chair of
the Forum to report on the outcomes of the ninth session of the Permanent Forum
regarding the theme.
24. The Permanent Forum calls upon UNESCO, the Secretariat of the Conference
on Biological Diversity, UNDP, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the
United Nations Population Fund, the World Intellectual Property Organization and
the United Nations Development Group to support indigenous peoples in their process
of cultural heritage restoration and strengthening. This process should be guided by
indigenous peoples in order to avoid the misuse and distortion of indigenous peoples’
culture, practices and knowledge and to respect their perspectives and aspirations.
25. The Permanent Forum recommends that UNDP include indigenous peoples in
its programme of democratic governance in order to support and strengthen
indigenous institutions and enable indigenous peoples to enjoy their right to
political participation and fortify their capacities for political conflict prevention
and resolution.
26. The Permanent Forum recommends that States consider the document entitled
“The human development framework and indigenous peoples’ self-determined
development or development with culture and identity” (E/C.19/2010/CRP.4) and in
particular pay attention to the conclusions and recommendations provided therein.
27. The Permanent Forum recommends that the International Council on Mining
and Metals provide a list of at least 10 projects that they recommend as good
practices in the involvement of indigenous peoples in mining operations and invite
members of the Forum, members of affected indigenous peoples and indigenous
experts to visit the project sites for the purpose of reporting back to the Forum at its
tenth session.
28. The Permanent Forum requests that the secretariat of the Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues publish a second volume of the State of the World’s Indigenous
Peoples, containing a section on development with culture and identity based on
information from indigenous peoples’ organizations, United Nations agencies and
States.
29. The Permanent Forum recommends that UNESCO, the Convention on
Biological Diversity, UNICEF and other relevant United Nations agencies convene
an expert meeting, in conjunction with the Forum, comprising intercultural and
educational experts and United Nations agencies to explore themes and concepts
related to bilingual, intercultural and multilingual education in the context of
teaching in mother tongue indigenous languages.
30. The Permanent Forum notes that in order to facilitate the expert meeting, there
is a need for country-specific situation analysis. The Forum invites UNESCO to
conduct this analysis, given the agency’s experience and expertise in the area. The
Forum also invites UNESCO to transmit the analysis to the Forum. The analysis
should identify the legislative and/or policy frameworks that States employ to
facilitate successful models of bilingual learning, multicultural and multilingual
learning and mother tongue education and identify the barriers to implementation of
those frameworks.
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