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of the Support Project for the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, which is part of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the
University of Arizona, United States. Finally, he thanks the many indigenous
peoples, Governments, United Nations bodies and agencies, non-governmental
organizations and others that have cooperated with him over the past three
years to implement his mandate.
113. The Special Rapporteur is pleased to provide the General Assembly with
the present report and looks forward to holding a dialogue with States about
his work. Although he is encouraged by the positive developments that have
taken place in many places, he remains concerned about the ongoing struggles
for and violations of indigenous peoples’ rights throughout the world. During
the second term of his mandate, he will make the development of concrete
measures to tackle these pressing problems a top priority by identifying good
practices and workable models and building on advances already made.
Through this work, he hopes to assist in the multifaceted efforts under way to
achieve the future envisioned by the Assembly when it adopted the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, a future in
which indigenous peoples’ distinct identities and cultures are fully valued and
in which they have the opportunity to control their own destinies, under
conditions of equality, within the broader societies in which they live.
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