A/HRC/24/50 • Indigenous peoples and indigenous peoples’ representative institutions should be consulted and involved in all stages of the establishment and implementation of transitional justice mechanisms. • Truth commissions should be guided by and should make explicit reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. • Truth commissions should recognize and address the historical injustices experienced by indigenous peoples, as well as how failures to recognize indigenous peoples’ self-determination historically and today have created conditions for human rights violations. • Truth processes should be linked to larger outreach and education efforts. These efforts should include explaining important justice issues, such as selfdetermination, to the broader public. • Truth processes and reparations programmes should be designed in a way that respects the cultures and values of indigenous peoples. C. Indigenous peoples 16. Indigenous peoples should strengthen advocacy for the recognition of their justice systems. Indigenous peoples should strengthen their own organizations and local governance capacity to meet the challenges faced by their communities. 17. Indigenous peoples’ justice systems should ensure that indigenous women and children are free from all forms of discrimination and should ensure accessibility to indigenous persons with disabilities. 18. Indigenous peoples should explore the organization and running of their own truthseeking processes. 19. Indigenous peoples should strive for explicit inclusion of their particular interests in transitional justice initiatives in those cases where indigenous peoples are one among many groups that suffered human rights abuse. 20. Indigenous peoples should ensure that all persons are effectively represented in transitional justice processes, especially women. D. International institutions 21. The Declaration should guide the efforts of United Nations system entities and mandates, including the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. 22. The United Nations should dedicate resources to the development and carrying out, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, of training on the rights of indigenous peoples in relation to access to justice for law enforcement officials and members and staff of the judiciary. 23. The United Nations system should seek to expand programmes designed to support indigenous peoples to carry out strategic litigation to advance their rights and expand their access to justice. 24. The United Nations should work with indigenous peoples to contribute to further reflection on and capacity-building regarding truth and reconciliation procedures for indigenous peoples. 25