A/RES/57/192
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/553)]
57/192. International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/140 of 19 December 2001 and previous resolutions
on the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People,
Recalling also its resolution 40/131 of 13 December 1985, by which it
established the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations,
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 made through the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 8 September 2001, to
the realization of the goals of the Decade,
Welcoming also, in this respect, the concluding documents of the World
Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from
26 August to 4 September 2002, 1
Saluting the successful holding of the historic first annual session of the
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at United Nations Headquarters in New
York from 13 to 24 May 2002,
Welcoming the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human
Rights on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous
people, 2 submitted to the Commission at its fifty-eighth session, pursuant to
Commission resolution 2001/57 of 24 April 2001, 3
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1
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum),
chap. I, resolutions 1 and 2.
2
E/CN.4/2002/97 and Add.1.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 3 (E/2001/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
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