A/HRC/27/64 in the years to come. Therefore, it was crucial that indigenous peoples’ rights be taken into consideration. The agenda must firmly reflect the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly the rights to self-determination, to freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising the right to development and to participate in decision-making. The Chair-Rapporteur further emphasized the importance of indigenous peoples’ involvement in national action plans, policies and programmes resulting from this international commitment. 29. This was followed by a presentation by a staff member of OHCHR’s Millennium Development Goals section, who provided an overview of the post-2015 process to date, including the importance of integrating human rights dimensions. She identified five critical human rights elements to be included in the development agenda, as follows: (a) freedom from want (aligning socioeconomic goals with economic, social and cultural rights); (b) freedom from fear (including civil and political rights, such as political participation, access to justice, and personal security); (c) leaving no one behind, through the application of equality and non-discrimination; (d) ensuring international policy coherence (through strong global partnerships and international reforms based on the right to development); and (e) effective accountability through a strong framework. 30. The Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples then made a statement which focused on the need to fully integrate indigenous peoples’ perspectives, through their full and effective participation in all related processes, including the open-ended working group. She noted that indigenous representatives were asserting the need for a fourth pillar in development, namely culture, to be added to the existing three pillars of economic, social and environmental development. Indigenous peoples were advancing the need for indicators of well-being and sustainability to be used as measures of development, rather than relying on economic indicators. Furthermore, indigenous peoples were calling for the use of the terminology “indigenous peoples” rather than “indigenous and local communities” throughout the new sustainable development goals. Whereas in an earlier draft, goal 16 of the draft sustainable development goals had included a reference to indigenous peoples, and had also included the term “free” in the phrase “free, prior and informed consent”, the term “free” had been removed in the present version of the zero draft. Both of those references should be reinserted. Furthermore, indigenous peoples’ concerns should be integrated throughout the goals. Ms. Tauli Corpuz urged States and the Expert Mechanism to work towards ensuring that these concerns relating to the lack of recognition of indigenous peoples and their rights were addressed. 31. Joseph Itongwa, of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee and the Integration Programme for the Development of the Pygmy Peoples in Kivu, presented a regional and national perspective on indigenous peoples’ involvement in the post-2015 development agenda based on his experiences in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He outlined the challenges facing indigenous peoples in Africa in terms of development, including denial of their recognition as indigenous peoples, and marginalization of their participation in political life and in their access to health and education services. He indicated that the involvement of indigenous peoples was necessary in the development of national plans for the implementation of international development goals, and highlighted the importance of dialogue between States and indigenous peoples. 32. Mr. Tsykarev referred to the World Conference on Youth, which had been held in Colombo in May 2014 with the specific theme of mainstreaming youth in the post-2015 development agenda. The Colombo Declaration had been presented to the United Nations General Assembly for consideration, and Mr. Tsykarev noted that it encouraged States to allocate budgetary support to the creation of more and decent job opportunities for indigenous youth, and to develop programmes and policies aimed at eradicating violence 9

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