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change on issues affecting them, including Indigenous women, youth, older persons
and persons with disabilities;
18. Further stresses the importance of enhancing the participation of Indigenous
Peoples in processes and negotiations on issues that affect them, including, but not
limited to, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris
Agreement, 38and the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework 39 under the United
Nations Convention on Biological Diversity; 40
19. Encourages Member States and the private sector to ensure more
sustainable, environmentally friendly and responsible corporate behaviour that
addresses the adverse environmental impact of certain business activities, such as
illegal logging and mining, uncontrolled agribusiness expansions, unsustainable
large-scale infrastructure development projects and extractive industries on the lands
and territories traditionally inhabited by Indigenous Peoples and on the well -being of
Indigenous Peoples;
20. Decides to continue to observe the International Day of Indigenous
Peoples every year on 9 August, and requests the Secretary-General to support the
observance of the Day from within existing resources;
21. Encourages Member States and all organizations and bodies of the United
Nations system and other international and regional organizations, the private sector
and academia, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to
observe the International Day of Indigenous Peoples in an appropriate manner,
including through educational and public awareness-raising activities;
22. Encourages Member States to give due consideration to all the rights of
Indigenous Peoples in fulfilling the commitments undertaken in the 2030 Agenda and
in the elaboration of national action plans and programmes as well as international
and regional programmes, applying the pledge to leave no one behind and to
endeavour to reach the furthest behind first;
23. Encourages States to continue to consider including in their voluntary
national reviews for the high-level political forum on sustainable development and
their national and global reports information related to Indigenous Peoples on the
progress made and challenges in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, bearing in
mind paragraphs 78 and 79 of the 2030 Agenda, and also encourages States to compile
disaggregated data to measure progress and to ensure that no one is left behind;
24. 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;
25. Calls upon States to foster an enabling online environment that is safe and
conducive to engagement by all Indigenous Peoples, and to take all necessary and
appropriate measures to address disinformation and advocacy of hatred constituting
incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence towards Indigenous Peoples;
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Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations Environment Programme, document CBD/COP/15/17, decision 15/4, annex.
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