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(c) To designate focal points for coordination of activities related to the Decade with the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;
and commends those institutions, programmes and agencies that have already done so;
11. Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure coordinated follow-up to the recommendations
concerning indigenous people of relevant world 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 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, and the World Summit for Social Development, held at Copenhagen
from 6 to 12 March 1995;
12. 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 of the Decade to the
General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session;
13. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled
“Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People”.
85th plenary meeting
9 December 1998