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5.
Requests the Expert Mechanism to continue its study on access to justice in
the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, with a focus on restorative
justice and indigenous juridical systems, particularly as they relate to achieving peace and
reconciliation, including an examination of access to justice related to indigenous women,
children and youth and persons with disabilities, and to present it to the Human Rights
Council at its twenty-seventh session;
6.
Also requests the Expert Mechanism to prepare a study on the promotion and
protection of the rights of indigenous peoples in natural disaster risk reduction and
prevention and preparedness initiatives, including consultation and cooperation with the
indigenous peoples concerned in elaboration of national plans for natural disaster risk
reduction, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session;
7.
Further requests the Expert Mechanism to continue to undertake, with the
assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner, the questionnaire survey to seek the
views of States and indigenous peoples on best practices regarding possible appropriate
measures and implementation strategies in order to attain the goals of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with a view to completing a final
summary of responses for presentation to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh
session, and encourages States that have not yet provided their responses to do so, as well
as those States that have already responded to the questionnaire survey to update their
responses as appropriate;
8.
Welcomes the adoption by the General Assembly of its resolutions 65/198
and 66/296 on the organization of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly,
known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to be held on 22 and 23 September
2014, and takes note of its inclusive preparatory process, including the meeting to be held
in Mexico, and, in this regard,
(a)
Encourages States, in accordance with the provisions contained in General
Assembly resolution 66/296, to continue to promote the participation of indigenous peoples
during the preparatory process of the World Conference and to support it, in particular by
means of technical and financial contributions;
(b)
Recommends that the studies and advice of the Expert Mechanism be
considered in the formulation of the agendas of the preparatory process;
9.
Welcomes the decision of the General Assembly, in its resolution 67/153 of
20 December 2012, to continue, at its sixty-ninth session, its consideration of the ways and
means of promoting the participation of representatives of indigenous peoples at meetings
of relevant United Nations bodies and other relevant United Nations meetings and
processes on issues affecting indigenous peoples, on the basis of the rules of procedure of
such bodies and existing United Nations procedural rules and regulations, taking into
account the report of the Secretary-General,7 existing practices for the accreditation of
representatives of indigenous peoples at the United Nations and the objectives of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
10.
Recommends that the General Assembly consider changing the title of the
United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations to the United Nations
Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples;
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