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Taking note of the recommendation of the World Conference on Human
Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, that an international decade
of the world’s indigenous people should be proclaimed, 1/
Noting the need to continue strengthening the initiatives taken as a
result of the Year,
Recalling the request to the Subcommission on Prevention of
Discrimination and Protection of Minorities that it should complete its
consideration of the draft universal declaration on the rights of indigenous
peoples,
1.
Calls upon the United Nations system and Governments that have not
yet done so to develop policies in support of the objectives and the theme of
the International Year of the World’s Indigenous People and to strengthen the
institutional framework for their implementation;
2.
Recommends to all thematic rapporteurs, special representatives,
independent experts and working groups that they pay particular attention,
within the framework of their mandates, to the situation of indigenous people;
3.
Urges the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights to continue
to solicit actively the cooperation of specialized agencies, regional
commissions, financial and development institutions and other relevant
organizations of the United Nations system for the promotion of a programme of
activities in support of the objectives and the theme of the Year;
4.
Appeals to the specialized agencies, regional commissions and
financial and development institutions of the United Nations system to
continue to increase their efforts to take into special account the needs of
indigenous people in their budgeting and in their programming;
5.
Requests:
That reports of the three technical meetings, first provided for
(a)
in paragraph 8 of General Assembly resolution 46/128 of 17 December 1991, be
included in the final assessment proceedings provided for in paragraph 12 of
the same resolution and that their conclusions be included in the report of
the Coordinator for the Year to be submitted to the General Assembly at its
forty-ninth session;
(b)
That the Commission on Human Rights convene, from within existing
resources, a meeting of participants in the programmes and projects of the
Year, in the three days preceding the twelfth session of the Working Group on
Indigenous Populations of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination
and Protection of Minorities, to report to the Working Group on the
conclusions that can be drawn from the activities of the Year with a view to
the elaboration of a detailed plan of action and the establishment of a
funding plan for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People;
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A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III, sect. II, para. 32.
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