A/70/301 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted to the General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples pursuant to her mandate under Council resolutions 15/14 and 24/9. In the report, the Special Rapporteur provides both a summary of her activities since her previous report to the Assembly (A/69/267) and a thematic analysis of international investment and free trade regimes and their impact on the rights of indigenous peoples. 2. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges with gratitude the assistance provided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). She also expresses thanks to the many indigenous peoples, States, United Nations bodies and agencies and non-governmental organizations that cooperated with her over the past year in the implementation of her mandate. II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur A. Participation in international and national conferences and dialogues 3. As part of the fulfilment of her mandate, the Special Rapporteur has participated in a number of international and national dialogues and conferences, for example: (a) The Special Rapporteur participated in the twentieth session of the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Lima in December 2014, where she took part in the efforts to get human rights, particularly indigenous peoples rights, in the Lima Conference of the Parties’ decisions. She held meetings with the Vice-Minister for Intercultural Affairs of Peru and several representatives of indigenous peoples from Peru and other countries; (b) The Special Rapporteur coordinated closely with the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenou s Peoples, including reporting at the plenary sessions and holding parallel meetings with indigenous peoples and organizations during those sessions. While in Geneva and New York she also held direct dialogues with various Permanent Representatives to the United Nations of 10 Governments from Latin America, North America and the Pacific; (c) During the fourteenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, held in April and May 2015, the Special Rapporteur shared her views on indigenous peoples’ right to self-determined development and related economic, social and cultural rights and how they relate to the post -2015 development agenda; (d) In January 2015, she participated in the international expert group meeting on an optional protocol to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In February 2015 she did the same at the expert group meeting on cultural heritage and indigenous peoples’ rights of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 15-12526 3/24