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81. The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) advance data and research on the challenges that indigenous women and
girls face in realizing their right to bodily autonomy and the right to be free from
violence, including reproductive coercion and in birthing practices. Furthermore, the
Permanent Forum invites UNFPA to prepare a study on indigenous women ’s bodily
autonomy, with the participation of indigenous women, and to present its findings at
the twenty-third session of the Permanent Forum, to be held in 2024.
82. The Permanent Forum calls on FAO and WHO to amend the International Code
of Conduct on Pesticide Management to take into account the free, prior and informed
consent of indigenous peoples.
83. The Permanent Forum appreciates the participation, at its twenty -first session,
of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally
sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes and recommends
that the Special Rapporteur urge Member States to guarantee indigenous peoples ’
rights to clean water. The Permanent Forum invites the Special Rapporteur to
participate at its twenty-second session, in 2023.
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
84. The Permanent Forum is concerned about the lack of data on indigenous peoples
across the United Nations system, especially with regard to target 17.18 of the
Sustainable Development Goals concerning the development of inclusive policies that
leave no one behind. The Permanent Forum recognizes the need for establishing
standards on the collection, analysis and dissemination of statistical information
related to indigenous peoples and will engage in efforts w ith relevant stakeholders to
achieve these ends. As a first step, the Permanent Forum invites United Nations
entities to make their statistics on indigenous peoples accessible.
Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues considered by the
Economic and Social Council and emerging issues (item 6)
85. Indigenous peoples have been a distinct constituency at the United Nations since
1977 and, with the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly in 2007, their inherent rights were
affirmed as the international minimum standard. The Permanent Forum reiterates the
position of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, namely that it
is unacceptable to undermine the status and standing of indigenous peoples by
combining or equating them with non-indigenous entities such as minorities,
vulnerable groups or local communities. Such attempts, whether by States or United
Nations entities, are not acceptable and will be challenged by i ndigenous peoples and
those mandated to defend their rights. The Permanent Forum urges all United Nations
entities and States parties to treaties concerning the environment, biodiversity and the
climate to eliminate the use of the term “local communities” in conjunction with
indigenous peoples, so that the term “indigenous peoples and local communities”
would be abolished.
86. The Permanent Forum underlines the importance of the recognition by States of
the indigenous peoples living on their territories – one of the key guarantees for the
protection of indigenous peoples’ rights and interests in line with relevant
international norms and standards, in particular the Declaration.
87. Ensuring a human rights-based approach to indigenous peoples’ rights to land,
waters, territories and resources, governance and secure custom ary tenure is essential
for their continued contribution and significant role in achieving the post -2020 global
biodiversity framework. Indigenous lands, waters and territories need to be
recognized directly and as a category separate from “protected areas ” or “other
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