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10.
Takes note of the outcome document of the high-level event held in February
2020 on the occasion of the closing of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages,
entitled “Los Pinos Declaration [Chapoltepek] – Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous
Languages”, and of the establishment, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, of the Global
Task Force for Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
11.
Decides that the theme of the annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of
indigenous peoples, to be held during the fifty-first session of the Human Rights Council,
will be the impact of social and economic recovery plans in the COVID-19 context on
indigenous peoples, with a special focus on food security, and requests the Office of the High
Commissioner to encourage and facilitate the participation of indigenous women and to make
the discussion fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and to prepare a summary report
on the discussion and to submit it to the Council prior to its fifty-third session;
12.
Encourages all stakeholders, in their responses to and recovery from the
COVID-19 pandemic, to work in collaboration with indigenous peoples’ representatives and
institutions, guided by the objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, and to refer to the guidelines of the Office of the High Commissioner 9
on this matter;
13.
Recalls the summary report prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner
on the half-day intersessional interactive dialogue held on 15 July 2019 on ways to enhance
the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of the
Human Rights Council on issues affecting them, and the intersessional round table held on
16 July 2021 on ways to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and
institutions in meetings of the Council on issues affecting them, and looks forward to the
report on the round table;
14.
Decides to continue to discuss further steps and measures necessary to enable
and to facilitate the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in
the work of the Human Rights Council, in particular in dialogues with the Expert Mechanism
and the Special Rapporteur and in the annual half-day discussion on the rights of indigenous
peoples;
15.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to convene a four-day expert
workshop in 2022, open to the participation of States, and of indigenous peoples from the
seven indigenous sociocultural regions, including by inviting the submission of written
contributions, on possible ways to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples in the
work of the Human Rights Council, and to prepare a summary report on the discussion and
the resulting recommendations and to submit it to the Council prior to its fifty-third session;
16.
Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner, when preparing for the
expert workshop, to seek input from States, indigenous peoples, the Expert Mechanism, the
Special Rapporteur and other relevant United Nations bodies, within their respective
mandates, and to take into account the relevant work already done by stakeholders, including
the Human Rights Council and the Secretary-General, on enhancing the participation of
indigenous peoples in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them;
17.
Invites the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for
Indigenous Peoples, within the Fund’s rules and established procedures, to assist
representatives of indigenous peoples’ organizations and institutions to participate in the
above-mentioned expert workshop, promoting balanced regional representation;
18.
Encourages the Expert Mechanism to continue its discussions on the issue of
enhancing the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in the
relevant meetings of the Human Rights Council on issues affecting them;
19.
Encourages States to give due consideration to the rights of indigenous peoples
and the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination faced by indigenous peoples and
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See www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IPeoples/OHCHRGuidance_COVID19_Indigenouspeoples
Rights.pdf.