A/HRC/RES/18/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 October 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Eighteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
18/8
Human rights and indigenous peoples
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2001/57 of 24 April 2001,
2002/65 of 25 April 2002, 2003/56 of 24 April 2003, 2004/62 of 21 April 2004 and
2005/51 of 20 April 2005 on human rights and indigenous issues,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 6/12 of 28 September 2007, 6/36
of 14 December 2007, 9/7 of 24 September 2008, 12/13 of 1 October 2009 and 15/7 of 30
September 2010,
Bearing in mind that the General Assembly, in its resolution 59/174 of 20 December
2004, proclaimed the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People,
Recalling the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/295 on 13 September
2007,
Welcoming General Assembly resolution 65/198 of 21 December 2010, in which the
Assembly expanded the mandate of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous
Populations so that it can assist representatives of indigenous peoples’ organizations and
communities to participate in sessions of the Human Rights Council and of human rights
treaty bodies, based on diverse and renewed participation and in accordance with relevant
rules and regulations, including Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31 of 25 July
1996, and inviting States to contribute to the Fund,
Recognizing the importance to indigenous peoples of revitalizing, using, developing
and transmitting their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems
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GE.11- 16640
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I.