A/HRC/RES/15/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 October 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
15/7
Human rights and indigenous peoples
The Human Rights Council,
Bearing in mind that the General Assembly, in its resolution 59/174 of 20 December
2004, proclaimed the Second International Decade of the World´s Indigenous People,
Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2001/57 of 24 April 2001,
2002/65 of 25 April 2002, 2003/56 of 24 April 2003, 2004/62 of 21 April 2004 and
2005/51 of 20 April 2005 on human rights and indigenous issues,
Recalling also Council resolutions 6/12 of 28 September 2007, 6/36 of 14 December
2007, 9/7 of 24 September 2008 and 12/13 of 1 October 2009,
Recalling further the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/295 of 13 September
2007,
Recognizing the importance to indigenous peoples of revitalizing, using, developing
and transmitting to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions,
philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and designating and retaining their own
names for communities, places and persons,
1.
Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights on indigenous issues,1 and requests the High Commissioner to continue to submit to
the Council an annual report on the rights of indigenous peoples containing information on
relevant developments in human rights bodies and mechanisms and activities undertaken by
the Office of the High Commissioner at Headquarters and in the field that contribute to the
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GE.10-16598
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.
A/HRC/15/34.