A/HRC/RES/51/18 3. Also welcomes the work of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including its annual report for 202211 and its intersessional activities, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to ensure the timely translation into all official languages of the United Nations and distribution of its reports to the Human Rights Council and the pre-session translation of its studies and reports, in accordance with Council resolution 33/25 of 30 September 2016; 4. Strongly encourages all relevant stakeholders, including States and Indigenous Peoples, to attend and participate actively in the sessions of the Expert Mechanism, to submit contributions to its studies and reports and to engage in dialogue with it, including during its intersessional activities; 5. Acknowledges the efforts of States, Indigenous Peoples and United Nations entities to engage with the Expert Mechanism under its current mandate to facilitate dialogue, when agreeable to all parties, and to provide technical assistance and coordination in order to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, encourages all parties to consider the Expert Mechanism’s initiation of country engagements at the request of States and Indigenous Peoples, and acknowledges the engagement of those States that have already collaborated with the Expert Mechanism under its current mandate; 6. Notes that the next study of the Expert Mechanism, to be finalized by its sixteenth session, will be focused on the impact of militarization on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and that the next report will be focused on establishing effective monitoring mechanisms at the national and regional levels for the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and acknowledges the efforts made to improve complementarity and to avoid duplication among the reports prepared by the Expert Mechanism, the Special Rapporteur and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; 7. Urges States and invites other public and/or private potential donors to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples as an important means of promoting the rights of Indigenous Peoples worldwide and within the United Nations system and to support the system-wide action plan for ensuring a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 8. Recalls the proclamation of the period 2022–2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages to draw attention to the critical loss of Indigenous Peoples’ languages and the urgent need to preserve, revitalize and promote Indigenous Peoples’ languages, including sign languages, and to take urgent steps to that end at the national and international levels,12 also recalls the establishment, in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples, of the Global Task Force for Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages, and calls upon States to promote the effective and meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples in leading and holding activities to mark the Decade; 9. Takes note of the Global Action Plan for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, and calls upon States to take concrete measures to implement it at the local and national levels, in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples, including by seeking to ensure the full and meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples in the design and subsequent implementation of strategies, initiatives, policies and legislation and by engaging in fruitful and sustained dialogue with other relevant stakeholders; 10. Encourages States to translate and disseminate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into indigenous languages, as appropriate, and to cooperate with the Office of the High Commissioner, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Expert Mechanism to translate their reports and make them accessible to Indigenous Peoples, including by producing them in plain language and Easy Read format; 11. Decides that the theme of the annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, to be held during the fifty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council, will be the impact of certain development projects on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, in 11 12 4 A/HRC/51/49. General Assembly resolution 74/135.