United Nations
A/RES/58/158
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 March 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 114
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/505)]
58/158. International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/192 of 18 December 2002 and previous resolutions
on the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, including resolution
50/157 of 21 December 1995, by which it adopted the programme of activities for
the Decade,
Recalling also its resolution 40/131 of 13 December 1985, by which it
established the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, and its
resolution 57/191 of 18 December 2002, as a result of which the Trust Fund in
Support of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was established,
Recalling further that the goal of the Decade is to strengthen international
cooperation for the solution of problems faced by indigenous people in such areas as
human rights, the environment, development, education and health, and that the
theme of the Decade is “Indigenous people: partnership in action”,
Welcoming, in this respect, the contributions to the realization of the goals of
the Decade made by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at its first and
second sessions, held in New York from 13 to 24 May 2002 and from 12 to 23 May
2003, respectively,
Welcoming also the contributions to the realization of the goals of the Decade
made by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance, held at Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to
8 September 2001, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held at
Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002,
Welcoming further the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on
Human Rights on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of
indigenous people, submitted to the Commission on Human Rights at its
fifty-eighth 1 and fifty-ninth 2 sessions,
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E/CN.4/2002/97 and Add.1.
E/CN.4/2003/90 and Add.1–3.