Rights of Indigenous Peoples

A/RES/67/153View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66a Rights of indigenous peoples, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 2012–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/191

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/191	Rights of indigenous peoples	7,366	91%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/159	Rights of indigenous peoples	7,036	90%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/189	Rights of indigenous peoples	6,423	78%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/203	Rights of indigenous peoples	5,886	85%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/148	Rights of indigenous peoples	5,332	83%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Anniversaries Conferences Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications

What’s in this document?

14 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 with appreciation of his report on the rights of indigenous peoples,¹² and encourages all Governments to respond favourably to his requests for visits;

¹²A/66/288.

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the evaluation of the progress made in the achievement of the goal and objectives of the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People;¹³

¹³A/67/273.

Also takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the ways and means of promoting participation at the United Nations of indigenous peoples’ representatives on issues affecting them;¹⁴

¹⁴A/HRC/21/24.

Further takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the status of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations;¹⁵

¹⁵A/67/221.

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)¹⁶ 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;

¹⁶United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1650, No. 28383.

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;

Welcomes the celebration of the high-level event to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Declaration, held on 17 May 2012 during the eleventh session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues with the participation of Member States and representatives of indigenous peoples’ organizations, as part of the preparations for the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly, known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to be held in 2014;

Also welcomes the proclamation by the General Assembly of the year 2013 as the International Year of Quinoa¹⁷ and the global launch of the Year, to be held on 31 January 2013, and encourages all Member States, the organizations of the United Nations and all other relevant stakeholders to take advantage of the Year as a way of promoting the traditional knowledge of the Andean indigenous peoples, contributing to the achievement of food security, nutrition and poverty eradication and raising awareness of their contribution to social, economic and environmental development, and to share good practices on the implementation of activities during the Year;¹⁸

¹⁷See resolution 66/221.

¹⁸See A/67/553, appendix.

Decides to continue, at its sixty-ninth session, its consideration of the ways and means of promoting the participation of representatives of indigenous peoples at meetings of relevant United Nations bodies and other relevant United Nations meetings and processes on issues affecting indigenous peoples, on the basis of the rules of procedure of such bodies and existing United Nations procedural rules and regulations, taking into account the report of the Secretary-General,Error: Reference source not found existing practices for the accreditation of representatives of indigenous peoples at the United Nations and the objectives of the Declaration;

Encourages Member States to respond fully and promptly to the questionnaire on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People;

Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with Member States, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and other relevant funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, to prepare a comprehensive last report on the achievement of the goal and objectives of the Second Decade, and its impact on the Millennium Development Goals, to be submitted no later than May 2014, which shall serve as an input to the preparatory process for the World Conference and to the discussion on the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015;

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

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