A/RES/48/163
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5.
Requests the Secretary-General to appoint the Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Human Rights as the Coordinator for the Decade;
6.
Requests the Coordinator to coordinate the programme of activities
for the Decade in full collaboration and consultation with Governments,
competent bodies, the International Labour Organisation and other specialized
agencies of the United Nations system, and indigenous and non-governmental
organizations;
7.
Requests competent United Nations bodies and specialized agencies
to designate focal points for coordination with the Centre for Human Rights of
the Secretariat of activities related to the Decade;
8.
Invites Governments to ensure that activities and objectives for
the Decade are planned and implemented on the basis of full consultation and
collaboration with indigenous people;
9.
Requests specialized agencies, regional commissions and other
organizations of the United Nations system to consider with Governments and in
partnership with indigenous people how they can contribute to the success of
the Decade, and to transmit their recommendations to the Economic and Social
Council;
10.
Appeals to the specialized agencies, regional commissions,
financial and development institutions and other relevant organizations of the
United Nations system to increase their efforts to take into special account
the needs of indigenous people in their budgeting and in their programming;
11.
Invites indigenous organizations and other interested nongovernmental organizations to consider the contributions they can make to the
success of the Decade, with a view to presenting them to the Working Group on
Indigenous Populations;
12.
Requests the Commission on Human Rights to ask the Working Group
on Indigenous Populations to identify possible programmes and projects in
connection with the Decade and to submit them through the Subcommission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to the Commission
for its consideration;
13.
Recommends that adequate human and financial resources be made
available to the Centre for Human Rights in support of its activities related
to indigenous people, within the overall framework of strengthening its
activities envisaged in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;
14.
Requests the Secretary-General to establish a voluntary fund for
the Decade, and authorizes him to accept and administer voluntary
contributions from Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations and other private institutions and individuals for the purpose
of funding projects and programmes during the Decade;
15.
Urges Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations to contribute to the voluntary fund for the Decade to be
established by the Secretary-General and invites indigenous organizations to
do likewise;
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