A/RES/70/232
Rights of indigenous peoples
4.
Reaffirms the decision to convene a high-level event to mark the tenth
anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, to be held during the seventy-first session of the General
Assembly, in 2017, and that the event will take stock of the achievements of the
preceding 10 years and assess the remaining challenges for the rights of indigenous
peoples, and also consider the further follow-up to the Declaration, including the
consideration of a third International Decade;
5.
Welcomes the progress in the follow-up action to the World Conference on
Indigenous Peoples, including the leadership of the Secretary-General and of the
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, as the responsible senior
official of the United Nations system, in developing, within existing resources, in
consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, the Inter -Agency Support
Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues and Member States, a system-wide action plan to
ensure a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, raising awareness of the rights of indigenous
peoples and increasing the coherence of the activities of the system in this reg ard;
6.
Encourages those States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), of the International
Labour Organization 9 to consider doing so and to consider supporting the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and welcomes the
increased support of States for the Declaration;
7.
Urges Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations to continue to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for
Indigenous Peoples, the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues and the United Nations
Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership, and invites indigenous organizations and private
institutions and individuals to do likewise;
8.
Decides to expand the mandate of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for
Indigenous Peoples so that it can assist representatives of indigenous peoples’
organizations and institutions to participate in the consultation process on the
procedural and institutional steps to enable the participation of indigenous peoples’
representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on
issues affecting them during the seventieth and seventy -first sessions of the General
Assembly;
9.
Also decides to continue observing in New York, Geneva and other
United Nations offices every year on 9 August the International Day of Indigenous
Peoples, to request the Secretary-General to support the observance of the Day from
within existing resources and to encourage Governments to observe the Day at the
national level;
10. Encourages States to consider including in their reports related to
indigenous peoples and women information on the progress made and challenges in
the implementation of Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 49/7 of
11 March 2005, entitled “Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”, 10 and 56/4 of 9 March 2012, entitled
“Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication”; 11
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1650, No. 28383.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D.
11
Ibid., 2012, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2012/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D.
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