A/HRC/30/53 including through the recognition of indigenous peoples’ right to control and benefit from their natural resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. 18. States should provide measures for the revitalization and transmission of the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples in formal and informal education, including the promotion and protection of indigenous peoples’ languages through effective mother tongue education for indigenous children. 19. States should take effective measures to assess, redress and remedy the effects of past injustices and violations of the rights of indigenous peoples by ensuring the restitution and repatriation of their cultural heritage. 20. States should increase their financial support to museums that are owned and managed by indigenous peoples, as part of the redress and repatriation process. 21. States should strengthen their legal and policy frameworks to encourage public and private museums to reach out to indigenous communities in order to better understand the impact of restoring stolen cultural heritage. 22. States should ensure that investors and corporations respect the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples. Businesses have a responsibility to protect the right to cultural heritage; if operations have a negative impact on the realization of that right, businesses have a responsibility to remedy that impact. 23. States that have not already done so should ratify the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, as a measure to increase the protection afforded to indigenous peoples’ intangible cultural heritage. C. Advice for international organizations 24. There is a need for better coordination and collaboration between institutions and agencies of the United Nations system on matters relating to cultural heritage and its human rights dimensions so as to increase coherence and avoid duplication of work. This issue could be addressed in the system-wide action plan on indigenous peoples that is currently being developed, as requested by the General Assembly in the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. 25. Relevant special procedures should monitor State policies on access to cultural heritage to ensure that they respect the principles of the Declaration and that States act in accordance with the provisions in the International Labour Organization Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention No. 169 that protect cultural heritage. 26. International organizations working in the field of cultural heritage, such as UNESCO, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and other United Nations specialized agencies, must integrate and respect the rights proclaimed in the Declaration in their work. This includes obtaining the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples before any decision affecting their lands is taken. 27. The World Heritage Committee should take effective measures to ensure that the protection of World Heritage does not undermine indigenous peoples’ relationship with their traditional lands, territories and resources, their livelihoods and their rights to protect, exercise and develop their cultural heritage and expressions. 28. The World Heritage Committee needs to review its current procedures and Operational Guidelines, with the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, to ensure that the implementation of the World Heritage Convention is consistent with the Declaration. 22

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