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Indigenous Peoples, and calls upon States to promote and examine national policies, practices
and funding programmes on Indigenous media, including on capacity-building and content
production in Indigenous languages by Indigenous content producers and media
professionals, especially Indigenous women, to tackle harmful online content and conduct
against Indigenous Peoples in non-Indigenous media, including with and by hate speech and
misinformation and disinformation, and to foster international cooperation, knowledgesharing and cooperation among Indigenous media and other partners, including mainstream
media and Governments;
13.
Recognizes the efforts made to translate the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples into more than 42 Indigenous languages to date and encourages
States to continue to translate and interpret it into and disseminate it in Indigenous languages,
including Indigenous sign languages, as appropriate, and to cooperate with the Office of the
High Commissioner, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the
Expert Mechanism to translate their reports and make them accessible to Indigenous Peoples,
including by producing them in plain language and Easy Read formats;
14.
Decides that the theme of the annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of
Indigenous Peoples, to be held during the sixtieth session of the Human Rights Council, will
be the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of a just transition to sustainable energy
systems, including in relation to critical minerals, and requests the Office of the High
Commissioner to encourage and facilitate the participation of Indigenous women and youth
in the panel, to make the discussion fully accessible to and inclusive for persons with
disabilities, and to prepare a summary report of the discussion for submission to the Council
prior to its sixty-second session;
15.
Also decides to continue to discuss and develop further steps and measures
necessary to enable and to facilitate the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives
and institutions duly established by themselves in the work of the Human Rights Council,
and in this regard notes with appreciation the participation of States, relevant United Nations
agencies, funds and programmes, international organizations, Indigenous Peoples from the
seven Indigenous sociocultural regions, national human rights institutions and civil society
organizations in the first two-day intersessional meeting of the Council on concrete ways to
enhance the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the work of the Council, held on 18 and
19 July 2024, and looks forward to the second two-day intersessional meeting, to be held on
17 and 18 October 2024, as well as the report of the discussions and outcomes of the meetings
to be presented to the Council at its fifty-ninth session;
16.
Invites again the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples,
within the Fund’s rules and established procedures, to facilitate the participation of
Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions duly established by themselves in the
above-mentioned intersessional meeting, promoting balanced gender and intergenerational
representation, as well as equitable representation of all seven sociocultural Indigenous
regions and their subregions, including by making efforts to provide interpretation services
for representatives of Indigenous Peoples who do not speak any of the official languages of
the United Nations;
17.
Encourages the Expert Mechanism to continue its discussions on the issue of
enhancing the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions duly
established by themselves in the relevant meetings of the Human Rights Council on issues
affecting them;
18.
Notes that some States continue to strengthen their legal and constitutional
frameworks, both at the national and local levels, for the full recognition of Indigenous
Peoples as subjects of law;
19.
Calls upon States to give due consideration to the rights of Indigenous Peoples
and to all forms of violence and discrimination, including multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination, faced by Indigenous Peoples, in fulfilling the commitments undertaken in the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in the formulation of relevant international
and regional programmes, as well as national action plans, strategies and programmes,
applying the principle of leaving no one behind;
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