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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
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