E/2002/43/Rev.1 E/CN.19/2002/3/Rev.1 leader of a sub-team on minorities and indigenous mandates. The mandates entrusted to the Office of the High Commissioner and which will continue to be implemented by it are the following: • Subcommission Working Group on Indigenous Populations (Council resolution 1982/34). • Commission on Human Rights working group on the draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (Council resolution 1995/32). • International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (General Assembly resolution 48/163), of which the Office of the High Commissioner is the Coordinator. • Indigenous fellowship programme (General Assembly resolution 50/157 annex § 13). • Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people (Commission resolution 2001/57). • Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations (General Assembly resolution 40/131). • Voluntary Fund for the International Decade (General Assembly resolution 48/163). • Technical assistance to indigenous peoples (World Conference on Human Rights plan of action II § 30). 10. Although there may be changes to these mandates in the future, as a result of the review to be undertaken by the Council, no reduction of activities within the Office in the immediate future is foreseen as a result of the establishment of the Forum. 11. Among the proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible action identified by the Forum in its report, human rights are dealt with in paragraphs 15-24. Of the activities mentioned, only three would constitute defined activities by the Office of the High Commissioner: (a) preparation of a report by the Secretary-General on how indigenous issues have been addressed in United Nations Charter-based mechanisms and treaty bodies (para. 15); (b) organization of a technical seminar with members of the Forum, the members of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people (para. 17); and (c) organization of activities with indigenous peoples in Africa and Asia (para. 24). Those activities are new and do not duplicate activities currently out by the Office of the High Commissioner. Paragraphs 16 and 18 to 23 of the report are addressed to States or other organizations and agencies of the United Nations system, or request priority-setting within the work of existing human rights mechanisms. Activities to be undertaken by other departments/offices of the Secretariat and/or organizations of the United Nations system are identified in paragraphs 3 to 14 and 25-32 of the report. In that connection, it is recalled that an Inter-agency Support Group for the Forum has been established. The Group met in 2002, discussed ways of supporting the Forum and reported on its deliberations to Governments and indigenous peoples (see E/2002/68, paras. 49-58). 27