Enhancing the Participation of Indigenous Peoples' Representatives and Representative Institutions in Meetings of Relevant United Nations Bodies on Issues Affecting Them

Requests the President of the General Assembly, in consultation with Member States and Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions, to organize, within existing resources and on the margins of the twenty-eighth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, a workshop of not more than three days on enhanced participation of Indigenous Peoples, open to all Member States and observers of the General Assembly, and Indigenous Peoples with accreditation to the Permanent Forum, and to prepare a record of the discussions of the workshop as an input to the intergovernmental process of the General Assembly;

Requests the Secretary-General, within existing resources, to compile information from Member States and Indigenous Peoples from the seven sociocultural regions on existing practices and acknowledgements of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions, and on possible barriers to participation, including, inter alia, language barriers, accessibility barriers, technological barriers, financial constraints and procedural challenges, before the eighty-third session of the General Assembly, in support of the implementation of the relevant resolutions;

Encourages Governments, intergovernmental and non‑governmental organizations and other private and public entities to continue to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples in order to assist Indigenous Peoples and institutions to participate in the consultation process on the procedural and institutional steps to enable the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, and invites the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples, within the established rules and procedures of the Fund, to facilitate the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions in such meetings, taking into account and promoting balanced regional, gender and intergenerational representation;

Encourages the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, in promoting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to continue to address the enhanced participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions within the United Nations on issues affecting them;