A/RES/67/153
Rights of indigenous peoples
held on 31 January 2013, and encourages all Member States, the organizations of
the United Nations and all other relevant stakeholders to take advantage of the Year
as a way of promoting the traditional knowledge of the Andean indigenous peoples,
contributing to the achievement of food security, nutrition and poverty eradication
and raising awareness of their contribution to social, economic and environmental
development, and to share good practices on the implementation of activities during
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11. Decides to continue, at its sixty-ninth session, its consideration of the
ways and means of promoting the participation of representatives of indigenous
peoples at meetings of relevant United Nations bodies and other relevant United
Nations meetings and processes on issues affecting indigenous peoples, on the basis
of the rules of procedure of such bodies and existing United Nations procedural
rules and regulations, taking into account the report of the Secretary-General,13
existing practices for the accreditation of representatives of indigenous peoples at
the United Nations and the objectives of the Declaration;
12. Encourages Member States to respond fully and promptly to the
questionnaire on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second
International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People;
13. Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with Member States, the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special
Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, the International Labour Organization,
the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Entity for Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and other relevant funds,
programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, to prepare a
comprehensive last report on the achievement of the goal and objectives of the Second
Decade, and its impact on the Millennium Development Goals, to be submitted no
later than May 2014, which shall serve as an input to the preparatory process for the
World Conference and to the discussion on the United Nations development agenda
beyond 2015;
14. Decides to continue consideration of the question at its sixty-eighth
session under the item entitled “Rights of indigenous peoples”.
60th plenary meeting
20 December 2012
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See A/67/553, appendix.