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45. The Permanent Forum urges States to implement articles 11 and 13 of the
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in particular in relation to the
practice and revitalization of indigenous peoples’ languages, cultural traditions and
customs as a way of building resilience and preventing self-harm, violence and
suicide.
46. The Permanent Forum also urges States to fund and deliver training in suicide
prevention and mental health awareness to all teaching and non -teaching staff in all
schools attended by indigenous children. The development of localized training
programmes adapted to each culture consistent with articles 11, 14, 15 and 31 should
be encouraged.
47. The Permanent Forum further urges the General Assembly to proclaim an
international year of the world’s indigenous children and youth.
Post-2015 development agenda
48. The Permanent Forum recommends that member States and relevant United
Nations agencies place employment, decent work, social protection and recognition
of traditional occupations and livelihoods of indigenous peoples, including
pastoralism, on the post-2015 development agenda. A focus on indigenous peoples’
access to decent work, livelihoods and social protection is of utmost importance in
this context. It will provide the opportunity to work globally towards building the
enabling conditions for capturing the opportunities of sustainable development for
pastoralists.
49. The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States and United Nations
agencies recognize indigenous peoples as distinct stakeholders and make a specific
separate reference to indigenous peoples, and not simply include them under the
terms “marginalized and vulnerable groups”, in both the sustainable development
goals and the post-2015 development agenda, including the Small Island Developing
States process, and that this recommendation, with the specific recognition of
indigenous peoples’ views and priorities for development, should be reflected in the
goals and targets to be developed, including appropriate indicators and data
disaggregation.
50. The Permanent Forum calls on the chairs of the Open Working Group on
Sustainable Development Goals to address inequalities through the sustainable
development goals, with a special focus on indigenous peoples, in order to uphold
human rights for all, eliminate discrimination, reduce inequalities and ensure that no
one is left behind.
Half-day discussion on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
51. At its thirteenth session, the Permanent Forum convened a one -day dialogue
on the high-level plenary meeting also known as the World Conference on
Indigenous Peoples. The Forum is seriously concerned at the lack of substantive
progress in the informal consultations held by, or on behalf of, the President of the
General Assembly with Member States and indigenous peoples. The Forum is also
alarmed at the conduct of certain States, whose interactions with the President of the
Assembly indicate a clear departure from the modalities set out in General
Assembly resolution 66/296 on the organization of the Conference. Notwithstanding
the commitments made by the Assembly in that resolution, the Permanent Forum is
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