E/2011/43
E/C.19/2011/14
and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) to review current procedures and
capacity to ensure free, prior and informed consent, and the protection of indigenous
peoples’ livelihoods, tangible and intangible heritage. During this review process, it
would be advisable to review the inconsistency of approaches to natural world
heritage and cultural world heritage. The Permanent Forum makes itself available to
assist in the review and revision of UNESCO operational guidelines with regard to
nominations and site assessments. The Permanent Forum further recommends that
UNESCO invite indigenous peoples’ representatives and experts to contribute to
deliberations on and recommended changes to procedures and operational
guidelines.
42. The Permanent Forum recommends that the UNESCO World Heritage
Committee, and the advisory bodies IUCN, ICOMOS and ICCROM, scrutinize
current World Heritage nominations to ensure they comply with international norms
and standards of free, prior and informed consent.
Human rights: implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples
43. Since the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples in 2007, some Governments have taken measures to incorporate
into their national or domestic legislation, recognition of and respect for the human
rights of indigenous peoples. However, in most regions of the world,
implementation of the Declaration remains a big challenge. The Permanent Forum
on Indigenous Issues welcomes the reports of States and United Nations agencies on
respective initiatives to implement the Declaration, but draws attention to the
serious implementation gaps.
44. Issues of violence and brutality, continuing assimilation policies,
marginalization, dispossession of land, forced removal or relocation, denial of land
rights, the impacts of large-scale development, abuses by military forces, armed
conflict and a host of other abuses, are a reality for indigenous peoples and their
communities around the world. Examples of violence and brutality have occurred in
every corner of the indigenous world, often perpetrated against indigenous peoples
who are defending their rights and their lands, territories and natural resources.
45. The Permanent Forum reaffirms its general comments to article 42 of the
Declaration adopted previously by the Forum. The Forum welcomes the report
presented by Bartolome Clavero, Lars Anders-Baer, Carsten Smith and Michael
Dodson on the matter during its tenth session.
46. The Permanent Forum thanks the Government of Colombia for its support
during the Forum mission to Colombia and requests that the Government, the
United Nations country team and the United Nations agencies involved in the
mission implement the recommendations contained in the mission report
(E/C.19/2011/3) through consultation and full collaboration with the indigenous
peoples concerned. The Permanent Forum intends to assess the implementation of
the recommendations at its eleventh session.
47. The Permanent Forum calls upon States, in conjunction with indigenous
peoples, to establish national initiatives, programmes and plans of work to
implement the Declaration with clear timelines and priorities. States and indigenous
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