A/59/258 found satisfactory solutions to such conflicts to put their experience to use in breaking the deadlock in similar situations elsewhere. 69. The Special Rapporteur has viewed with growing concern the often tragic situation of millions of indigenous women all over the world; discrimination has placed them in a position of substantial and lasting vulnerability. He recommends that governments should act in close and early consultation with indigenous women to formulate and adopt specific measures, projects and programmes to benefit such women and their families. 70. The lives and dignity of indigenous children must be protected as a matter of urgency. Governments must establish specific policies and programmes to end the violation of the human rights of millions of indigenous children throughout the world and to cope with the need for social services to genuinely protect those rights. 71. The Special Rapporteur notes that, despite the high expectations of 10 years ago, the achievements of the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People can be summarized as modest. For that reason, he welcomes the recommendation made by the Economic and Social Council in its decision 2004/290 that the General Assembly should consider proclaiming a second decade, to bring more dynamism, consolidate existing achievements and pursue other achievements. 72. He also wishes the Commission on Human Rights working group on a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples the strength and political will to reach a consensus on that draft, which has its origin in a promise made to the indigenous peoples at the beginning of the International Decade which is now ending. 19