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• Were indigenous individuals, in particular your citizens or members,
included in the processes undertaken to establish the implementation
strategy?
If not:
• Please explain plans to develop and establish an implementation strategy,
including whether indigenous individuals, in particular your citizens or
members, will be consulted on these measures; or
• If there are no plans to establish an implementation strategy, please explain
why not.
(2)
Have you adopted any specific legal, policy or other measures especially to
implement any or all rights in the Declaration?
If yes:
• Please provide detail about the measures adopted to implement the
Declaration with reference to the specific rights in the Declaration, for
example self-determination, participation in decision making, cultures and
languages, non-discrimination and equality, lands, territories and resources
and treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States.
• Is the Declaration explicitly mentioned in such measures?
• Have these measures been successful in attaining the goals of the
Declaration?
• Were indigenous individuals, in particular your citizens or members,
included in the development of these measures?
If not:
• Please explain plans to adopt measures to implement the Declaration,
including whether indigenous individuals, in particular your citizens or
members, will be consulted on these measures; or
• If there are no plans to adopt measures to implement the Declaration, please
explain why not.
(3)
When devising laws, policies or other measures that affect indigenous
individuals, in particular your citizens or members, is the Declaration routinely taken
into account?
If yes:
• Is this in response to a law or policy making procedure that directs
indigenous peoples’ institutions to take into account the Declaration?
If not:
• Do you take into account the Declaration on an ad hoc basis?
• What steps, if any, are being taken to ensure indigenous peoples’ institutions
take into account the Declaration?
• If there are no plans to ensure the Declaration is taken into account when
devising laws, policies or other measures that affect indigenous individuals,
in particular your citizens or members, why not?
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