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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
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A/HRC/57/64.
See General Assembly resolution 74/135.
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