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5.
Encourages Member States, resident coordinators and United Nations
country teams, within their mandates and in coordination with the Governments
concerned, to involve indigenous peoples regarding issues affecting them in the
preparation of the United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and country
programme action plans;
6.
Encourages Member States to work towards achieving the ends of the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the light of the
tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration;
7.
Encourages those States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), of the International
Labour Organization 12 to consider doing so;
8.
Urges Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations to continue to contribute to the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues, the
United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership, invites indigenous organizations and private
institutions and individuals to do likewise, and notes the importance of accessibility,
accountability, transparency and balanced geographical distribution in the
management of these funds;
9.
Decides to continue to observe the International Day of Indigenous
Peoples every year on 9 August, and requests the Secretary-General to support the
observance of the Day from within existing resources;
10. Encourages Member States and all organizations and bodies of the United
Nations system and other international and regional organizations, the private sector
and academia, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to
observe the International Day of Indigenous Peoples in an appropriate manner,
including through educational and public awareness-raising activities;
11. Reaffirms the proclamation of the year beginning on 1 January 2019 as the
International Year of Indigenous Languages to draw attention to the critical loss of
indigenous languages and the urgent need to preserve, revitalize and promote
indigenous languages, including as an educational medium, and to take further urgent
steps to that end at the national and international levels, and the invitation to the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to serve as the lead
agency for the Year, in collaboration with other relevant agencies, within existing
resources;
12. Encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization to lead the preparations for the International Year of Indigenous
Languages in 2019, in collaboration with other relevant agencies as well as
indigenous peoples;
13. Encourages States to consider including in their reports related to
indigenous peoples and women information on the progress made and challenges in
the implementation of Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 49/7 of
11 March 2005, entitled “Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”, 13 and 56/4 of 9 March 2012, entitled
“Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication ”; 14
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and
corrigendum (E/2005/27 and E/2005/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D.
Ibid., 2012, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2012/27 and E/2012/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D.
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