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14. Also encourages States, according to their relevant national context and
characteristics, to collect and disseminate data disaggregated by ethnicity, income,
gender, age, race, migratory status, disability, geographic location or other factors, as
appropriate, in order to monitor and improve the impact of development policies,
strategies and programmes aimed at improving the well-being of indigenous peoples
and individuals, to combat and eliminate violence and multiple and intersecting forms
of discrimination against them and to support work towards the achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda;
15. Encourages the Secretary-General to include information pertinent to
indigenous peoples in the forthcoming annual reports on progress towards the
Sustainable Development Goals;
16. Stresses the need to strengthen the commitment of States and the entities
of the United Nations system to mainstream the promotion and protection of the rights
of indigenous peoples into development policies and programmes at the national,
regional and international levels, and encourages them to give due consideration to
the rights of indigenous peoples in achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda;
17. Also stresses the need for indigenous peoples of all regions to contribute
to the high-level political forum on sustainable development, and encourages States
to engage with indigenous peoples at the local, national and regional levels in relation
to the Sustainable Development Goals;
18. Invites the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of
indigenous peoples to give due consideration, within their mandates, to the rights of
indigenous peoples as related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda ;
19. Encourages the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to continue to
provide inputs on indigenous issues to the high-level political forum on sustainable
development for consideration in its thematic reviews;
20. Underlines the need to intensify efforts, in cooperation with indigenous
peoples, to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against
indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities and
to support measures that will ensure their empowerment and full and effective
participation in decision-making processes at all levels and in all areas and eliminate
structural and legal barriers to their full, equal and effective participation in political,
economic, social and cultural life;
21. Reaffirms the importance of effective accountability with regard to
violence against indigenous women and girls, including sexual violence, domestic
violence, abuse, exploitation and sexual harassment, as well as with regard to taking
adequate measures to prevent and eliminate such violence;
22. Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to consider indigenous
women’s issues, among others, at its sixty-fourth session, to be held in 2020, to
coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women,
and encourages Governments to cooperate with indigenous peoples at all levels on
preparations for the 2020 review so as to benefit from their experience and expertise;
23. Encourages States to consider including in their reports related to
indigenous peoples and women information on the progress made and challenges in
the implementation of Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 49/7 of
11 March 2005, entitled “Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the
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