Enhancing the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them A/RES/80/303 recalling the commitment by Member States to consider ways to enable the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, Recalling its resolutions 70/232 of 23 December 2015, 71/321 of 8 September 2017, 77/203 of 15 December 2022, 78/328 of 6 September 2024 and 80/191 of 15 December 2025, taking note of the report of the Secretary -General on ways and means of promoting the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions in relevant United Nations meetings on issues affecting them, 3 and taking note also of the interactions between Member States, Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions, and relevant United Nations mechanisms on possible measures to enhance such participation, including procedural and institutional steps and accreditation criteria, Recognizing the important contributions of Indigenous Peoples in addressing a range of issues on the international agenda, Taking note of the summary report prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the discussions held to make recommendations on the concrete ways to enhance the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the work of the Human Rights Council, 4 Taking note also of the recommendations of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues contained in the report on its twenty-fifth session regarding enhanced participation of Indigenous Peoples, 5 1. Decides to continue its consideration of possible further measures, including the adoption of procedural and institutional steps, necessary to enhance the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions in relevant United Nations meetings on issues affecting them, and requests the President of the General Assembly at the beginning of a session, no sooner than the eighty fourth session and no later than the eighty-fifth session, to appoint two co-facilitators from Member States, one from a developed country and one from a developing country, taking into account geographical representation, and two advisers from Indigenous Peoples in consultation with Member States; 2. Requests the President of the General Assembly, in consultation with Member States and Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions, to organize, within existing resources and on the margins of the twenty eighth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, a workshop of not more than three days on enhanced participation of Indigenous Peoples, open to all Member States and observers of the General Assembly, and Indigenous Peoples with accreditation to the Permanent Forum, and to prepar e a record of the discussions of the workshop as an input to the intergovernmental process of the General Assembly; 3. Requests the Secretary-General, within existing resources, to compile information from Member States and Indigenous Peoples from the seven sociocultural regions on existing practices and acknowledgements of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and representative institutions, and on possible barriers to participation, including, inter alia, language barriers, accessibility barriers, technological barriers, financial constraints and procedural challenges, before the eighty-third session of the General Assembly, in support of the implementation of the relevant resolutions; _______________ 3 A/HRC/21/24. A/HRC/59/35. 5 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2026, Supplement No. 23 (E/2026/43). 4 2/3 26-12729