A/HRC/27/64 peoples’ governance bodies and institutions, including traditional indigenous Governments, indigenous parliaments, assemblies and councils, are able to participate at the United Nations as observers with, at a minimum, the same participatory rights as non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (see A/HRC/18/43, proposal 3). (d) The Expert Mechanism reiterates its proposal that the Human Rights Council review the language and terminology used in United Nations documents pertaining to the rights of indigenous peoples with a view to ensuring that they reflect the terminology contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It calls upon the United Nations and other international organizations to review their spelling rules with a view to using capital letters in spelling the term “Indigenous Peoples” (see A/HRC/24/49, proposal 3). Proposal 5: Post-2015 development agenda 10. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: (a) Proposes that the Human Rights Council urge States to address the concerns of indigenous peoples in the post-2015 development agenda and to take measures to ensure the participation of indigenous peoples, and in particular indigenous youth, in national processes for the implementation of the new development goals. Proposal 6: Indigenous human rights defenders 11. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: (a) Proposes that the Human Rights Council pay particular attention to indigenous human rights defenders in its work on this theme, drawing in particular on the work of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and on Council resolution 25/18. III. Organization of the session A. Attendance 12. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples held its seventh session from 7 to 11 July 2014 in Geneva. The members of the Expert Mechanism — Albert Deterville (Saint Lucia), International Chief Wilton Littlechild (Canada), Edtami Mansayagan (Philippines), Danfred Titus (South Africa) and Alexey Tsykarev (Russian Federation) — took part in the seventh session. 13. The participants in the seventh session of the Expert Mechanism included representatives of Member States, indigenous peoples, United Nations organizations and programmes, national human rights institutions, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions (see annex I). 14. Also participating in the session were Victoria Tauli Corpuz, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples; Dalee Sambo Dorough, the Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; and Shankar Limbu, a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples. 15. The session included panel discussions featuring representatives of OHCHR, the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Crispin Gregoire, Special Adviser to the President of the General Assembly for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, and Les Malezer, Indigenous Adviser to the President 6