A/HRC/12/32 page 5 3. Proposes further that the Human Rights Council authorize the Expert Mechanism to prepare a preliminary working paper on this theme prior to its third session in 2010. Proposal 2. Human rights institutions and mechanisms The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: 1. Notes the important role of national human rights institutions and regional human rights mechanisms in protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous peoples and in implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 2. Encourages the establishment of regional human rights mechanisms with a mandate that includes the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, and the strengthening of existing ones; 3. Proposes that the Human Rights Council encourage States to ensure that they have strong national human rights institutions and that these institutions have specific roles and activities to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples; 4. Proposes that the Human Rights Council encourage States to consider, in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, the establishment of national institutions on the rights of indigenous peoples, mandated to promote and protect their rights in complete accordance with the Declaration. Proposal 3. Consideration of indigenous peoples’ rights during the Human Rights Council sessions The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: 1. Proposes that the Human Rights Council consider organizing regular panel events devoted to the rights of indigenous peoples during its future sessions, with the participation of the Expert Mechanism, regional human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions and other relevant experts. Such panel events could be devoted to specific themes, and they could include sessions on the follow-up of thematic studies prepared by the Expert Mechanism; 2. Encourages the Human Rights Council to continuously pay particular attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in its work, including in connection with the universal periodic review, and proposes that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights prepare a compilation of the recommendations issued so far in the context of the universal periodic review process with respect to indigenous peoples; 3. Proposes that the Human Rights Council ensure that the introduction of the reports related to indigenous peoples by the Expert Mechanism, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights take place annually at the same session of the Human Rights Council and that these reports be grouped together in the agenda of the sessions, in order to enhance synergies and to facilitate participation of representatives of indigenous peoples.