A/HRC/15/37/Add.4 eliminating significant social and economic disadvantages faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in key areas, including early childhood, schooling, health, economic participation, healthy home, safe communities and governance and leadership, by the year 2020 and the resources committed by the Government thereto. Nevertheless, in his report, the Special Rapporteur observes that, overall, there is a need to incorporate into government programmes a more integrated approach to addressing indigenous disadvantage across the country, one that not just promotes social and economic well-being of indigenous peoples, but also advances their self-determination and strengthens their cultural bonds. The Government should seek to include in its initiatives the goal of advancing indigenous self-determination, in particular by encouraging indigenous self-governance at the local level, ensuring indigenous participation in the design, delivery and monitoring of programmes and promoting culturally appropriate programmes that incorporate or build on indigenous peoples’ own initiatives. Additionally, further efforts are needed to secure indigenous peoples’ rights over lands, resources and heritage sites and ensure that indigenous peoples living in remote areas can enjoy the same social and economic rights as other segments of the Australian population, without having to sacrifice important aspects of their cultures and ways of life. Of particular concern is the Northern Territory Emergency Response, addressed in appendix B, which, in several aspects, limits the capacity of indigenous individuals and communities to control or participate in decisions affecting their own lives, doing so in a way that discriminates on the basis of race, thereby raising serious human rights concerns. The Special Rapporteur offers a number of recommendations with the hope that they will help guide the Government of Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other interested parties to develop and implement laws, policies and programmes that conform to the international human rights standards related to indigenous peoples. 2 GE.10-13887