A/HRC/15/36 (c) Proposes that the Human Rights Council encourage States to ensure that they have strong national human rights institutions established according to the Paris Principles, that can effectively promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples; (d) Encourages national human rights institutions to take into consideration the results of the international meeting on the role of national human rights institutions in promoting the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bangkok from 16 – 17 December 2009, in order to strengthen their activities to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples, including monitoring compliance with standards contained in international treaties and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; contributing to the thematic studies of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and conducting training relevant to various stakeholders.1 Proposal 2. Consideration of the rights of indigenous peoples in the Human Rights Council 5. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (a) Refers to its earlier proposal pertaining to the consideration of the rights of indigenous peoples during sessions of the Human Rights Council, as contained in the report on its second session (proposal 3, in A/HRC/12/32); (b) Reiterates that the Human Rights Council should consider organizing regular panel events devoted to the rights of indigenous peoples during its future sessions, with the participation of the Expert Mechanism and other relevant experts, including regional human rights mechanisms and national human rights institutions. Such panel events could be devoted to specific themes, and could include sessions on the follow-up to thematic studies prepared by the Expert Mechanism; (c) Proposes that the first such panel event be devoted to the review of the follow-up to the study on the right of indigenous peoples to education and organized in close cooperation with the Expert Mechanism, in the context of the eighteenth session of the Human Rights Council in September 2011; (d) Proposes that a similar panel be convened by the Human Rights Council in due course on the right to participate in decision-making, following the submission of the final study on this topic; (e) Encourages the Human Rights Council to continuously pay particular attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in its work, including in connection with the universal periodic review. Proposal 3. Human Rights Council review 6. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (a) Refers to General Assembly resolution 60/251, in which the Assembly decided that the Council should review its work and functioning five years after its establishment and report back to the Assembly, and to Human Rights Council resolution 12/1 which is related to the review; 1 4 Note on the outcome of the meeting is available on the OHCHR website at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/docs/report_seminarNHRI_IP16-17Dec2010.doc