A/HRC/RES/57/15 available information requested in his or her communications and reacting promptly to his or her urgent appeals; 4. Also welcomes the work of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including its annual report11 and its intersessional activities; 5. Requests the Secretary-General and the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to provide all human, technical and financial assistance necessary for the Expert Mechanism to fulfil its mandate fully and effectively, including webcasting services for its annual meetings, with access to real-time translation, as well as the timely translation into all official languages of the United Nations and distribution of its reports to the Human Rights Council and the pre-session translation of its studies and reports, in accordance with Council resolution 33/25 of 30 September 2016; 6. Strongly encourages all relevant stakeholders, including States and Indigenous Peoples, to attend and participate actively in the sessions of the Expert Mechanism, to submit contributions to its studies and reports and to engage in dialogue with it, including during its intersessional activities; 7. Acknowledges the efforts of States, Indigenous Peoples, United Nations entities and other stakeholders to engage with the Expert Mechanism under its current mandate, and strongly encourages them to continue to do so, including to facilitate dialogue, when agreeable to all parties, and to provide technical assistance and advice in order to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as the implementation by States of accepted recommendations and concluding observations related to Indigenous Peoples arising from the universal periodic review and the treaty bodies, respectively; 8. Encourages all parties to consider the Expert Mechanism’s initiation of country engagements at the request of States and Indigenous Peoples, to seize the opportunity for dialogue provided by such requests and to facilitate country engagement mission arrangements to enable the Expert Mechanism to implement its mandate comprehensively; 9. Urges States and invites other public and/or private potential donors to contribute or to increase their contributions to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples as an important means of promoting the rights of Indigenous Peoples worldwide and within the United Nations system and to support the system-wide action plan for ensuring a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 10. Recalls the proclamation of the period 2022–2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages to draw attention to the critical loss of Indigenous Peoples’ languages and the urgent need to preserve, revitalize and promote Indigenous Peoples’ languages, including sign languages, and to take urgent steps to that end at the national and international levels,12 including by funding and developing policies for training and certifying interpreters in Indigenous Peoples’ languages and by promoting the effective and meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples in leading and holding activities to mark the Decade at the national and international levels; 11. Takes note of the Global Action Plan for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, and calls upon States and United Nations entities, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to take concrete measures to implement it at the local and national levels, in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples, including by seeking to ensure the full and meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples in the design and subsequent implementation of strategies, initiatives, policies and legislation and by engaging in fruitful and sustained dialogue with other relevant stakeholders; 12. Recalls the right of Indigenous Peoples to establish their own media in their own languages and to have access to all forms of non-Indigenous media without discrimination, as set out in article 16 (1) of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of 11 12 A/HRC/57/64. See General Assembly resolution 74/135. 5

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