BIHAPH believes innovative models existed where communities drove social change by using cultural knowledge — in art, traditional foods, tourism and therapeutic trades — to create economic opportunities. The CEO recommended that the Government and other donors should   adequately fund indigenous organizations to promote self-determination and women’s participation, and to establish accountability measures as a way of reducing violence, oppression, imprisonment, and child removals.

Also, BIHAPH exhorts indigenous women as change agents who passed indigenous culture and language on to future generations.  Identifying and addressing discrimination, as well as the causes and consequences of violence against indigenous women and girls, “goes to the heart of promoting gender equality and empowerment,” We emphasized  that indigenous women and girls must be free to make informed decisions over their own bodies.

BIHAPH is dedicated and most passionate towards her commitments to end poverty and hunger, protect human rights, promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and ensure lasting protection of the planet and natural resources.  It should emphasize that poverty represented a denial of human rights and human dignity.  It should further underline that the impacts of poverty were interrelated and compounded by unsustainable development, as well as reiterate that States must respect treaties with indigenous peoples.  For their part, States and corporations must be held accountable for ensuring that resource development did not violate treaty rights, he said, pressing the Permanent Forum to remind States that indigenous peoples’ right to development was an integral part of their right to self-determination.