Rights of Indigenous Peoples
A/RES/79/159
43. 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, and calls upon States to promote and examine national policies,
practices and funding programmes on Indigenous media, including on capacitybuilding and content production in Indigenous languages by Indigenous content
producers and media professionals, especially Indigenous women, and to foster
international cooperation, knowledge-sharing and cooperation among Indigenous
media and other partners, including mainstream media and Governments;
44. Encourages Governments to redouble efforts to eliminate child labour,
both in legislation and in practice, in the context of respect for the human rights of
Indigenous children, including through international cooperation, as appropriate;
45. Also encourages Governments to promote actions to end hunger and
malnutrition in all its forms and achieve food security and improved nutrition for
Indigenous children, especially for those living in rural and remote areas, by
providing them with adequate access to food, water and sanitation, education,
including intercultural and multilingual education, and universal and equitable access
to quality health services, and to implement actions for poverty eradication and build
sustainable food systems;
46. Urges Governments to ensure that Indigenous Peoples shall not be forcibly
removed from their lands or territories and that no relocation shall take place without
the free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous Peoples concerned, after
agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of
return, and to take effective measures to ensure that all Indigenous Peoples, regardless
of their tenure status, have access to essential services, including access to safe and
affordable water, sanitation, energy and health services;
47. Encourages transnational corporations and other business enterprises to
respect human rights, including the rights of Indigenous children, and to eliminate
forced labour and child labour from their operations;
48. Expresses concern over the misappropriation and misuse of Indigenous
Peoples’ cultural heritage, reaffirms that Indigenous Peoples have the right to
maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge
and traditional cultural expressions, and that they also have the right to maintain,
control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage,
traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, and recalls that States, in
conjunction with Indigenous Peoples, shall take effective measures to recognize and
protect the exercise of these rights, in accordance with the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and as acknowledged in national law;
49. Underscores the need to ensure equal protection of the law and equality
before the courts for Indigenous women and girls at all levels and, to that end, the
importance of providing systematic gender-sensitivity training, as appropriate, for
police and security forces, prosecutors, judges and lawyers, integrating gender
considerations into security sector reform initiatives, developing protocols and
guidelines and enhancing or putting in place appropriate accountability measures for
adjudicators;
50. Encourages States and entities of the United Nations system to strengthen
international cooperation, including to address the disadvantages faced by Indigenous
Peoples, and to increase technical cooperation and financial assistance in this regard;
51. Encourages the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s
Fund and other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in
accordance with their mandates, to carry out research and evidence-gathering on the
prevalence and root causes of suicide among Indigenous youth and children and good
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