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
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