A/RES/72/155
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 69 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/436)]
72/155.
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 resolutions 65/198 of 21 December 2010, 66/142 of
19 December 2011, 67/153 of 20 December 2012, 68/149 of 18 December 2013, 69/2
of 22 September 2014, 69/159 of 18 December 2014, 70/232 of 23 December 2015,
71/178 of 19 December 2016 and 71/321 of 8 September 2017, and recalling Human
Rights Council resolutions 27/13 of 25 September 2014, 1 30/4 of 1 October 2015, 2
33/12 and 33/13 of 29 September 2016 3 and 36/14 of 28 September 2017, 4
Reaffirming the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, 5 which addresses the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples,
Reaffirming also the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, held in
New York on 22 and 23 September 2014, 6 in which Heads of State and Government,
ministers and representatives of Member States reiterated the important and
continuing role of the United Nations in promoting and protecting the rights of
indigenous peoples, recalling the inclusive preparatory process for the high-level
plenary meeting, including the comprehensive engagement of the representatives of
indigenous peoples, and welcoming and reaffirming the commitments, measures and
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and
A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Resolution 61/295, annex.
Resolution 69/2.
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