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Further information about the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues You can find more information about the Permanent Forum on Indigneous Issues in the following IWGIA publications: A section on the Permanent Forum has been included since the 1998-99 issue of The Indigenous World. All issues of The Indigenous World from 2001 to 2005, except 2004, are available for downloading by clicking here. For backcopies please contact iwgia@iwgia.org. Indigenous Affairs 3/2004 – The UN Decade: Expectations and Realities (download the publication) Indigenous Affairs 1/2002 - International Processes (download the publication) The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples (Lola García-Alix 2003) Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples: A Handbook on the UN System (Florencia Roulet 1999) In United Nations Guide for Indigenous Peoples "Leaflet No. 6 : The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues" information about the Permenant Forum is available. The leaflet can be found at: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/racism/indileaflet6.doc Information about the Permanent Forum is also available in OHCHR's Fact Sheet No. 9: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which can be found at: http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/fs9.htm The Permanent Forum's own website can be found at: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/index.html The Secretariat of the Permanent Forum also produces a quarterly newsletter.