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Theme: "Ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ health, including in the context of conflict”
Dates: The 25th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will take place from 20 April to 1 May 2026.
Location: UN Headquarters, New York
Preparations
International Expert Group Meeting: “Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the context of the climate crisis, biodiversity governance and territorial integrity: focusing on nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples, including pastoralists and shifting cultivators”
Date TBD
Provisional agenda
1. Election of officers.
2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work.
3. Discussion on the theme “Ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ health, including in the context of conflict”.
4. Discussion on the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum (economic and social development, culture, environment, education, health and human rights), with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
5. Dialogues:
(a) Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples;
(b) Dialogue with Member States;
(c) Dialogue with the United Nations agencies, funds and programmes;
(d) Human rights dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; annual review of progress on the implementation of general recommendation No. 39 (2022);
(e) Interregional, intergenerational and global dialogue;
(f) Dialogue on Indigenous platforms established within United Nations entities;
(g) Thematic dialogue on the financing of Indigenous Peoples’ work and participation across the multilateral and regional system.
6. Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues considered by the Economic and Social Council, the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and emerging issues.
7. Provisional agenda of the twenty-sixth session of the Permanent Forum.
8. Adoption of the report of the Permanent Forum on its twenty-fifth session.
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