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people to secure their livelihoods, enjoy healthy and productive environments and
live with dignity. The Forum recommends that these conservation organizations
ensure the full participation of indigenous peoples in the implementation of the
Initiative. The Forum further recommends that conservation organizations that have
projects that have led to the eviction of indigenous peoples from their forests
provide redress and restitution to such victims.
160. The Permanent Forum welcomes the presence of the Minister of the
Environment and International Development of Norway and the side event
organized by the Government of Norway, at which the Minister held an interactive
dialogue with indigenous peoples and others on the Oslo-Paris Initiative on REDDplus. The Forum recommends that the Initiative ensure the inclusion and the full and
effective participation of indigenous peoples and that it not remain as an initiative of
Governments only. The Forum further recommends that the Initiative ensure the
implementation of the safeguards contained in the report of the Ad Hoc Working
Group on long-term cooperative action under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change on its eighth session (FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/17)
which stresses the need to respect the knowledge and rights of indigenous peoples,
noting the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples; the need for the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, the
non-conversion of natural forests for other uses, and the conservation of biological
diversity; and the need to address the drivers of deforestation and land tenure issues.
161. The Permanent Forum recommends that Governments and States promote the
creation of conditions for indigenous peoples that will enable them to maintain the
forests in their traditional way and conserve their cultural identity, with priority
accorded to indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation, strengthening their capacities
and highlighting the value of ancestral knowledge related to native forests. The
Forum further recommends that the traditional knowledge and traditional forest
management practices and governance systems of indigenous peoples for the
protection and use of their forests be recognized in all forest policies and climaterelated forest initiatives.
Indigenous women
162. The Permanent Forum notes that 2010 is the review year for the Beijing
Platform for Action and for the Millennium Development Goals. Fifteen years after
Beijing and 10 years after the Millennium Summit, the situations of poverty faced
by indigenous peoples, and their lack of access to basic services like health and
education, especially among women, remain pervasive. The Forum reiterates and
reaffirms the Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women as a key tool for achieving
the Millennium Development Goals with respect to indigenous women and their
communities while advancing commitments to the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Forum calls on Governments and United
Nations agencies to provide space for indigenous peoples, especially indigenous
women, in the different processes leading to the review of the Beijing Platform for
Action and the review of the Millennium Development Goals to be undertaken at
the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in September 2010.
163. The Permanent Forum recommends that States, relevant United Nations
agencies and other intergovernmental organizations and bilateral donors support
strategies for intercultural prevention and eradication of violence against women
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