Outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General
Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
A/RES/69/2
36. We confirm that indigenous peoples’ knowledge and strategies to sustain their
environment should be respected and taken into account when we develop national
and international approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
37. We note that indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop
priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development. In this regard, we
commit ourselves to giving due consideration to all the rights of indigenous peoples
in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda.
38. We invite Member States and actively encourage the private sector and other
institutions to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous
Peoples, the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues, the Indigenous Peoples Assistance
Facility and the United Nations Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership as a means of
respecting and promoting the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide.
39. We request the Secretary-General to include relevant information on
indigenous peoples in his final report on the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals.
40. We request the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Inter-Agency
Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues and Member States, taking into
account the views expressed by indigenous peoples, to report to the General
Assembly at its seventieth session on the implementation of the present outcome
document, and to submit at the same session, through the Economic and Social
Council, recommendations regarding how to use, modify and improve existing
United Nations mechanisms to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ways to enhance a coherent, system-wide
approach to achieving the ends of the Declaration and specific proposals to enable
the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions, building on
the report of the Secretary-General on ways and means of promoting participation at
the United Nations of indigenous peoples’ representatives on the issues affecting
them.7
4th plenary meeting
22 September 2014
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A/HRC/21/24.