A/HRC/27/64 (b) Also proposes to the Human Rights Council that it urge the inclusion of the Expert Mechanism, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples in the follow-up related to the World Conference. Proposal 3: Business and human rights 8. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: (a) Proposes to the Human Rights Council that it take measures to ensure that the Expert Mechanism is included in the Council’s ongoing initiatives relating to business and human rights; (b) Also proposes that the Human Rights Council request the Expert Mechanism to convene a technical expert seminar, in collaboration with the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, and with the participation of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, to elaborate guidance on the issue of indigenous peoples’ access to justice and remedy in the context of business operations affecting their human rights. The technical expert seminar could be based on relevant reports by the Expert Mechanism and the above-mentioned Working Group and Special Rapporteur, and on other relevant documentation. The report of the expert seminar would be submitted to the next session of the Expert Mechanism and the Forum on Business and Human Rights and thus be transmitted to the Human Rights Council, so that it is taken into account in all of the Council’s processes relating to human rights and business, including the work of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on a legally binding international treaty on human rights, transnational corporations and other business enterprises. Proposal 4: Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 9. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: (a) Proposes that the Human Rights Council urge States and indigenous peoples to report on the measures taken to implement the rights enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, through the continuation of the Expert Mechanism’s questionnaire survey. The Expert Mechanism will revise the questionnaire on the basis of its experiences and the lessons learned from implementing it over the past three years; (b) Also proposes that the Human Rights Council call upon States to establish, with the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, independent mechanisms to oversee and promote the implementation of the rights contained in the Declaration, and to ensure that those mechanisms are mandated to oversee the implementation of recommendations made by the human rights treaty bodies, the Human Rights Council’s special procedures, the universal periodic review and other mechanisms relating to the rights of indigenous peoples. Such mechanisms should cooperate closely with regional and national human rights institutions; (c) The Expert Mechanism reiterates its proposal whereby it: Recognizes that the United Nations consultative arrangements for non-State entities can prevent indigenous peoples’ governance bodies and institutions, including traditional indigenous Governments, indigenous parliaments, assemblies and councils, from participating in decision-making processes at the United Nations, as they are not always organized as non-governmental organizations; [and] proposes that the Human Rights Council encourage the General Assembly to adopt, as a matter of urgency, appropriate permanent measures to ensure that indigenous 5

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