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20.
Urges States to take appropriate measures to protect Indigenous children, in
particular girls and young persons, from all forms of violence, and to ensure that all human
rights violations and abuses against them are investigated, that perpetrators are held
accountable, that appropriate preventive measures are put in place and that there is access to
effective remedies and reparations;
21.
Also urges States to take appropriate measures to ensure the continued
improvement of the economic and social conditions of Indigenous persons with disabilities
and to ensure and promote the full realization of their human rights, on an equal basis with
others and without discrimination of any kind, in collaboration with Indigenous persons with
disabilities and their representative organizations;
22.
Further urges States to duly recognize, observe and enforce existing treaties,
agreements and other constructive arrangements concluded between States and Indigenous
Peoples in order to advance and achieve the realization of the rights of Indigenous Peoples,
and encourages new ones as a method for implementing the rights affirmed in the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
23.
Calls upon States to engage Indigenous Peoples meaningfully in transitional
justice processes and in peace agreement negotiations, peacebuilding initiatives, constructive
arrangement processes and conflict resolution mechanisms in matters that may affect them,
and encourages the Office of the High Commissioner and other United Nations agencies,
funds and programmes, in coordination with States, to provide capacity-building and training
for Indigenous Peoples to enable their effective participation in those processes, negotiations
and mechanisms;
24.
Acknowledges the efforts made by the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to improve complementarity and to avoid duplication
among their reports, encourages them to strengthen their ongoing cooperation and
coordination and ongoing efforts to promote the rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in
treaties and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including
the follow-up to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, and invites them to continue
to work in close cooperation with all Human Rights Council mechanisms and the human
rights treaty bodies, within their respective mandates;
25.
Requests the President of the Human Rights Council to organize the
participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions duly established by
themselves from the seven Indigenous sociocultural regions, in consultation with the Expert
Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and with the support of the Office of the
High Commissioner, for the interactive dialogues with the Special Rapporteur on the rights
of Indigenous Peoples and with the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
as of the sixtieth session of the Council, acknowledging that this participation does not
prejudge the outcome of the ongoing discussions on concrete ways to enhance the
participation of Indigenous Peoples in the work of the Council, and emphasizing the unique
character of this participation, based on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples;
26.
Encourages the development of a process and a mechanism to facilitate the
international repatriation of Indigenous Peoples’ cultural objects and human remains, in
cooperation with Indigenous Peoples and through the continued engagement of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in particular, the World
Intellectual Property Organization, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum
on Indigenous Issues, States and all other relevant parties in accordance with their mandates;
27.
Reaffirms that the United Nations treaty bodies are important mechanisms for
the promotion and protection of human rights, notes the increasingly frequent references to
the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in their work and
encourages States to give serious consideration to their recommendations, including those
regarding Indigenous Peoples, in the application of the treaties;
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