Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66aRights of indigenous peoples, published in 2012.

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15 versions · 2012–2025

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9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the work of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, takes note of his report on the rights of indigenous peoples, and encourages all Governments to respond favourably to his requests for visits;

Urges Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to continue to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations and the Trust Fund for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, and invites indigenous organizations and private institutions and individuals to do likewise;

Encourages those States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the International Labour Organization Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) to consider doing so and to consider supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,Error: Reference source not found and welcomes the increased support by States for the Declaration;

Encourages States, in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, to take the appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to achieve the ends of the Declaration;

Encourages all interested parties, in particular indigenous peoples, to disseminate and consider good practices at different levels as a practical guide on how to attain the goals of the Declaration;

Requests the Secretary-General, in coordination with the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, to convene, within existing resources, a high-level event during the eleventh session of the Forum to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in order to raise awareness of the importance of pursuing its objectives;

Stresses that the result of that event could serve as an input for the preparation of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly in 2014, to be known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples;

Invites Governments, indigenous peoples and other stakeholders, including the media, as well as relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to carry out activities focused on marking the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration, at the regional and national levels;

Decides to continue consideration of the question at its sixty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Rights of indigenous peoples”.

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