Human Rights Council
Resolution 1/2.
Working group of the Commission on Human
Rights to elaborate a draft declaration in accordance
with paragraph 5 of the General Assembly
resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/32 of 3 March 1995,
in which it established an open-ended intersessional working group with the sole
purpose of elaborating a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous
peoples, considering the draft contained in the annex to resolution 1994/45 of 26
August 1994 of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights, for consideration and adoption by the General Assembly within the first
International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People,
Aware that the Working group of the Commission on Human Rights to
elaborate a draft declaration in accordance with paragraph 5 of General Assembly
resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994 has held eleven sessions between 1995 and
2006,
Considering that the General Assembly, in its resolution 59/174 of 20
December 2004, urges all parties involved in the process of negotiation to do their
utmost to carry out successfully the mandate of the Working Group and to present to
the Assembly for adoption as soon as possible a final draft United Nations declaration
on the rights of indigenous peoples,
Stressing that paragraph 127 of the outcome document of the 2005 World
Summit, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 60/1 of 16 September
2005, reaffirms the commitment of the international community to present for
adoption a final draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
as soon as possible,
Taking note of the report of the Working Group on its eleventh session
(E/CN.4/2006/79), which took place in Geneva from 5 to 16 December 2005 and