A/RES/72/155
Rights of indigenous peoples
efforts undertaken by States, the United Nations system, indigenous peoples and other
actors in its implementation,
Encouraging the active engagement of indigenous peoples in the
implementation of the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, including
at the regional and global levels,
Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 7 and stressing the
need to ensure that no one is left behind, including indigenous peoples, who should
participate in, contribute to and benefit without discrimination from the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and encouraging Member States to give due
consideration to all the rights of indigenous peoples while implementing the 2030
Agenda,
Stressing the importance of promoting and pursuing the objectives of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples also through international
cooperation to support national and regional efforts to achieve the ends of the
Declaration, including the right to maintain and strengthen the distinct political, legal,
economic, social and cultural institutions of indigenous peoples and the right to
participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life
of the State,
Welcoming the organization of the high-level event to mark the tenth anniversary
of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
during the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, in 2017, which took stock
of the achievements of the preceding 10 years and assessed the remaining challenges
for the rights of indigenous peoples and further follow-up to the Declaration,
Bearing in mind the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants 8 and the
commitments of Member States to address, in accordance with their respective
obligations under international law, the special needs of all people in vulnerable
situations who are travelling within large movements of refugees and migrants,
including indigenous peoples,
Taking note with appreciation of the consideration of the empowerment of
indigenous women as the focus area of the sixty-first session of the Commission on
the Status of Women, during which the Commission recognized that the economic
empowerment, inclusion and development of indigenous women, including through
the establishment of indigenous-owned businesses, could enable them to improve
their social, cultural, civil and political engagement, achieve greater economic
independence and build more sustainable and resilient communities,
Recognizing that violence against indigenous women and girls has a negative
impact on their enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms and con stitutes
a major impediment to women’s full, equal and effective participation in society, the
economy and political decision-making, and in this regard recalling Human Rights
Council resolution 32/19 of 1 July 2016, entitled “Accelerating efforts to eliminate
violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and
girls, including indigenous women and girls”, 9 which brings closer attention to this
issue, and recognizing also the negative effects of multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination,
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Resolution 71/1.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A.
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