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(b) How the participation of indigenous organizations, indigenous authorities
or communities, and indigenous youth was being ensured in UNICEF projects
implemented outside Latin America;
(c) How the Fund’s work with minorities differed from that with indigenous
peoples in various regions of the world;
(d) How UNICEF projects focused on indigenous children might differ from
Fund projects directed at children in general;
(e) Whether UNICEF had a specific budget to fulfil its mandate with regard
to indigenous children;
(f) What degree of importance UNICEF attached to guaranteeing access to
medicines and treatments for indigenous children living with HIV and AIDS;
(g)
How UNICEF addressed the problem of indigenous child soldiers;
(h) What type of policy UNICEF applied to carrying out bilingual and
intercultural education in communities with a majority indigenous population;
(i) Whether UNICEF had information regarding child pornography and the
illegal trafficking of indigenous children, and how it was addressing those problems;
(j) Whether the Fund’s work with indigenous children differed in terms of
indigenous boys and girls;
(k) What measures UNICEF was taking to empower and involve indigenous
youth in developing its policies for them;
(l) What efforts UNICEF was making to promote and protect the rights of
indigenous children in industrialized countries;
(m) In what manner UNICEF was addressing the impact of migration on
indigenous children;
(n) What advances UNICEF was making in the development of its
organizational framework regarding its work with indigenous children.
63. The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF operationalize and implement its
strategic framework on indigenous and minority children and report to the Forum in
2012 on measures undertaken to that end.
64. The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF, when completing its strategic
policy framework on indigenous peoples, include indigenous youth in the design of
the policy. In addition, particular attention is needed to reflect the diversity among
indigenous children and to focus on vulnerable groups, such as victims of human
trafficking and child pornography, as well as groups facing manifold discrimination
based on gender, disability or sexual orientation.
65. In support of their country-level programming, and with a view to a deeper
appreciation of indigenous peoples’ perceptions of such interventions, UNICEF and
UNFPA should undertake a study on the social, cultural, legal and spiritual
institutions of indigenous peoples and how these affect the rights of women and
children as laid out in local, regional and global frameworks.
66. The Permanent Forum requests that UNICEF prepare a report on the state of
the world’s children, with a thematic focus on indigenous children. The report
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