E/2006/43 E/C.19/2006/11 82. The Permanent Forum supports ongoing dialogues between Governments and armed forces undertaken to seek peaceful solutions to conflicts occurring in indigenous peoples’ territories and affecting indigenous peoples. 83. The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation on indigenous peoples living in voluntary and semi-voluntary isolation, or “uncontacted”, from its fourth session, 16 and urges Governments, indigenous peoples’ organizations, nongovernmental organizations and multilateral bodies to take note of and implement the Belem Declaration on Isolated Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon and Gran Chaco, 17 as well as International Labour Convention No. 169, domestic legislation and court orders that protect and maintain the rights of these indigenous peoples and their designated territories throughout the world to exist in isolation, should they so choose. The Permanent Forum urges Governments, the United Nations system, civil society and indigenous peoples’ organizations to cooperate in immediately ensuring effective prohibition against outside encroachment, aggression, forcible assimilation, and acts and processes of genocide. Measures of protection should comprise the safeguarding of their natural environment and livelihood and minimally invasive, culturally sensitive mobile health-care services. 84. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, ILO and UNESCO convene an expert workshop in cooperation with the Permanent Forum on the situation of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation in order to develop strategies and programmes for the protection of their rights and territories and report to the Permanent Forum thereon at its next session. 85. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in cooperation with the Permanent Forum develop a coherent and strategic plan of action in Africa in cooperation with indigenous peoples and their representative organizations, and that the implementation of the programme of the Office of the High Commissioner to strengthen capacity to protect and advocate for the human rights of indigenous peoples be linked to other United Nations bodies, notably the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), UNESCO and others. 86. The Permanent Forum recommends that there be productive cooperation with the Danish Institute for Human Rights focusing on training and awareness-raising within the national human rights commissions in Africa. The Permanent Forum further recommends that there be an effort made by the United Nations system to bring greater awareness of instruments and mechanisms specific to indigenous peoples to the attention of the African Union, the Pan-African Parliament, and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) initiative. __________________ 16 17 14 Ibid., para. 73. These peoples include the Jarawa, Onges and North Sentinel of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in South Asia; the Mlabri and Penan of South-East Asia; the Ayureo of the Gran Chaco region in South America; the “Rio Pardo Indians”, Massaco, Masko-Piro, Nukak-Maku, TagaeriTaromenane (Ecuador), Awa-Guaja, Cacataibo, Murunahua Land Reserve (Peru), Yora and others of the Amazon region of South America; and hunter-gatherers in West and Central Africa; and others in the Pacific region.