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(b)
Ensure coordinated follow-up to the recommendations concerning
indigenous people of relevant world conferences, namely the World Conference
on Human Rights, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development,
the International Conference on Population and Development, the Fourth World
Conference on Women and the World Summit for Social Development;
(c)
Urge relevant United Nations conferences to promote and
facilitate, to the extent possible and as appropriate, the effective input of
the views of indigenous people;
(d)
Ensure that information about the programme of activities for the
Decade and opportunities for indigenous people to participate in those
activities is disseminated in all countries and to the greatest possible
extent in indigenous languages, to be financed from within existing budgetary
resources;
(e)
Report on progress made at the national, regional and
international levels in accomplishing these objectives to the General Assembly
at its fifty-first session;
13.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
promote the objectives of the Decade, taking into account the special concerns
of indigenous people, in the fulfilment of his functions;
14.
Requests the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, in his
capacity as Coordinator of the Decade, bearing in mind the contribution that
indigenous people have the capacity to make, to establish, within existing
resources, a unit within the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat,
including indigenous persons, to support its activities related to indigenous
people, in particular to plan, coordinate and implement activities for the
Decade;
15.
Invites the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights to
consider the appointment of a fund-raiser who could develop new sources of
funding for the Decade;
16.
Requests the Administrative Committee on Coordination, through its
inter-agency process, to consult and coordinate on the Decade, with a view to
assisting the Coordinator of the Decade to fulfil his function, and to report
on activities of the United Nations system in relation to the Decade to the
General Assembly in each year of the Decade;
17.
Invites the United Nations financial and development institutions,
operational programmes and specialized agencies, in accordance with the
existing procedures of their governing bodies:
(a)
To give increased priority and resources to improving the
conditions of indigenous people, with particular emphasis on the needs of
those people in developing countries, including by the preparation of specific
programmes of action for the implementation of the goals of the Decade, within
their areas of competence;
(b)
To launch special projects, through appropriate channels and in
collaboration with indigenous people, for strengthening their community-level
initiatives and to facilitate the exchange of information and expertise among
indigenous people and other relevant experts;
(c)
To designate focal points for coordination with the Centre for
Human Rights of activities related to the Decade;
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