A/HRC/48/74 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 9 August 2021 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-eighth session 13 September–1 October 2021 Agenda items 3 and 5 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Human rights bodies and mechanisms Rights of the indigenous child under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Study of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Summary The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has prepared the present study pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/25. The study concludes with Expert Mechanism advice No. 14 on the rights of the indigenous child under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.  Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitters’ control. GE.21-10901(E)