A/RES/65/198
United Nations
Distr.: General
3 March 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 65 (a) and (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/453)]
65/198. Indigenous issues
The General Assembly,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Human Rights
Council and the Economic and Social Council relating to the rights of indigenous
peoples,
Recalling also its resolution 59/174 of 20 December 2004 on the Second
International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2005–2014),
Recalling further the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, 1 which addresses their individual and collective rights,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome 2 and the outcome document of the
High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium
Development Goals, 3
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 15/14 of 30 September 2010, 4
by which the Council decided to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on
the rights of indigenous peoples, and resolution 15/7 of 30 September 2010 on
human rights and indigenous peoples, 5
Noting the first Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights
of Mother Earth, hosted by the Plurinational State of Bolivia in Cochabamba from
20 to 22 April 2010,
Concerned about the extreme disadvantages that indigenous peoples have
typically faced across a range of social and economic indicators and about the
impediments to their full enjoyment of their rights,
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1
Resolution 61/295, annex.
See resolution 60/1.
3
See resolution 65/1.
4
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),
chap. II.
5
Ibid., chap. I.
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