A/RES/58/158
Recognizing the importance of consultation and cooperation with indigenous
people in planning and implementing the programme of activities for the Decade,
the need for adequate financial support from the international community, including
support from within the United Nations system, and the need for adequate
coordination and communication channels,
Urging all parties to continue to use their best efforts to achieve the goals of
the Decade,
1.
Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of
the programme of activities for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous
People; 3
2.
Affirms its conviction of the value and diversity of the cultures and forms
of social organization of indigenous people and its conviction that the development
of indigenous people within their countries will contribute to the socio-economic,
cultural and environmental advancement of all the countries of the world;
Emphasizes the importance of strengthening the human and institutional
3.
capacity of indigenous people to develop their own solutions to their problems;
4.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as
coordinator for the Decade:
(a) To continue to promote the objectives of the Decade, taking into account,
in the fulfilment of his or her functions, the special concerns of indigenous people;
(b) To give due regard to the dissemination, from within existing resources
and voluntary contributions, of information on the situation, cultures, languages,
rights and aspirations of indigenous people and, in that context, to consider the
possibility of organizing projects, special events, exhibitions and other activities
addressed to the public, in particular to young people;
(c) To submit, through the Secretary-General, an annual report to the
General Assembly on the implementation of the programme of activities for the
Decade;
Reaffirms the adoption of a declaration on the rights of indigenous people
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as a major objective of the Decade, and underlines the importance of effective
participation by indigenous representatives in the open-ended intersessional working
group of the Commission on Human Rights charged with elaborating a draft
declaration on the rights of indigenous people, established pursuant to Commission
resolution 1995/32 of 3 March 1995; 4
6.
Welcomes the active consideration by the Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues of a number of topics pertaining to the Decade, as reflected in its
report to the Economic and Social Council on its second session, 5 and encourages
the Forum to continue to work towards the realization of the goals of the Decade;
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A/58/289.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda
(E/1995/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A.
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Ibid., 2003, Supplement No. 23 (E/2003/43).
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