A/RES/67/153
Rights of indigenous peoples
Recalling further the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 the 2005 World
Summit Outcome 4 and the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of
the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 5
Recalling the outcome document entitled “The future we want” of the United
Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
from 20 to 22 June 2012, 6
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 21/24 of 28 September 2012
on human rights and indigenous peoples, 7
Recalling further 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”, 8 and 56/4 of 9 March 2012, entitled
“Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication”, 9
Recalling the first Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and the
Rights of Mother Earth, hosted by the Plurinational State of Bolivia in Cochabamba
from 20 to 22 April 2010, 10
Stressing the importance of promoting and pursuing the objectives of the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples also through
international cooperation to support national and regional efforts to achieve the ends
of the Declaration, including the right to maintain and strengthen the distinct
political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions of indigenous peoples and
the right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and
cultural life of the State,
Recognizing the value and the diversity of the cultures and the form of social
organization of indigenous peoples and their holistic traditional scientific
knowledge of their lands, natural resources and environment,
Concerned about the extreme disadvantages that indigenous peoples have
typically faced across a range of social and economic indicators and about the
impediments to their full enjoyment of their rights,
Recalling its resolution 65/198, by which it decided to expand the mandate of
the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations so that it could assist
representatives of indigenous peoples’ organizations and communities to participate
in sessions of the Human Rights Council and of human rights treaty bodies, on the
basis of diverse and renewed participation and in accordance with relevant rules and
regulations, including Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31 of 25 July
1996, and urged States to contribute to the Fund,
Recalling also its decision, taken in its resolution 66/296, to expand the
mandate of the Fund so that it can assist, in an equitable manner, representatives of
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Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 60/1.
5
Resolution 65/1.
6
Resolution 66/288, annex.
7
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1),
chap. I.
8
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.
9
Ibid., 2012, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2012/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D.
10
See A/64/777, annexes I and II.
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