United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/66/142
Distr.: General
30 March 2012
Sixty-sixth session
Agenda item 66 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2011
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/66/459)]
66/142. Rights of indigenous peoples
The General Assembly,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Human Rights
Council and the Economic and Social Council relating to the rights of indigenous
peoples,
Reaffirming its resolution 65/198 of 21 December 2010, in which it decided to
organize a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly, to be known as the
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to be held in 2014,
Recalling its resolution 59/174 of 20 December 2004 on the Second
International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2005–2014),
Recalling also the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, 1 which addresses their individual and collective rights,
Recalling further the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2 the 2005 World
Summit Outcome 3 and the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of
the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 4
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 18/8 of 29 September 2011 on
human rights and indigenous peoples, 5
Recalling also the first Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and the
Rights of Mother Earth, 6 hosted by the Plurinational State of Bolivia in
Cochabamba from 20 to 22 April 2010,
Stressing the importance of promoting and pursuing the objectives of the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples also through
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1
Resolution 61/295, annex.
See resolution 55/2.
3
See resolution 60/1.
4
See resolution 65/1.
5
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum
(A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.
6
See A/64/777, annexes I and II.
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