United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/RES/27/13
Distr.: General
3 October 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-seventh 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
27/13
Human rights and indigenous peoples
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all Commission on Human Rights and Human Rights Council resolutions
on human rights and indigenous peoples,
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 by the General Assembly of the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in its resolution 61/295 on 13 September 2007,
Welcoming the forthcoming thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Voluntary
Fund for Indigenous Peoples in 2015, and acknowledging the decades of its substantive
work to facilitate the direct and meaningful participation of indigenous peoples within the
United Nations, the Human Rights Council and the human rights treaty bodies, also in the
light of this important anniversary,
Recognizing the importance to indigenous peoples of revitalizing, using, developing
and transmitting their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems
and literatures to future generations, and designating and retaining their own names for
communities, places and persons,
Welcoming the completion of the studies by the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples on access to justice in the promotion and protection of the rights of
indigenous peoples: restorative justice, indigenous juridical systems and access to justice
for indigenous women, children and persons with disabilities1 and on the promotion and
protection of the rights of indigenous peoples in disaster risk reduction, prevention and
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A/HRC/27/65.
GE.14-17842 (E)