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(g) Identifying resources for activities designed to implement the goals of the
Decade, in cooperation with indigenous people and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations;
8.
Invites United Nations financial and development institutions,
operational programmes and the specialized agencies and secretariats, as well as
other regional and international organizations, in accordance with the existing
procedures of their governing bodies:
(a) To give increased priority and resources to improving the conditions
indigenous people, with particular emphasis on the needs of those people
developing countries, including through the preparation of specific programmes
action for the implementation of the goals of the Decade, within their areas
competence;
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(b) To launch special projects, through appropriate channels and in
cooperation with indigenous people, to strengthen their community-level initiatives
and to facilitate the exchange of information and expertise among indigenous people
and other relevant experts;
(c) To designate focal points for the coordination of activities related to the
Decade with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights;
and commends those institutions, programmes, agencies and regional and
international organizations that have already done so;
9.
Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure coordinated follow-up to
the recommendations concerning indigenous people of relevant United Nations
conferences, namely, the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from
14 to 25 June 1993, the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 3 to 14 June 1992, the
International Conference on Population and Development, held at Cairo from 5 to
13 September 1994, the Fourth World Conference on Women, held at Beijing from 4
to 15 September 1995, the World Summit for Social Development, held at
Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995, the second United Nations Conference on
Human Settlements (Habitat II), held at Istanbul, Turkey, from 3 to 14 June 1996,
and the World Food Summit, held at Rome from 13 to 17 November 1996, and other
relevant international conferences;
10. Emphasizes the importance of the participation of indigenous people in
United Nations world conferences and their national, regional and other preparatory
processes, in particular the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, to be held in South Africa in
2001, and encourages Member States to facilitate the participation of their
indigenous people, inter alia, by considering including representatives of indigenous
people in their delegations;
11. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
submit, through the Secretary-General, a report on the implementation of the
programme of activities for the Decade to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth
session;
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