Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples

A/HRC/RES/33/13View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

19 versions · 2008–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/63/14

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/63/14	Human rights and Indigenous Peoples	4,416	—Compare
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/13	Human rights and Indigenous Peoples	5,119	83%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/15	Human rights and Indigenous Peoples	4,956	66%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/54/12	Human rights and Indigenous Peoples	4,288	61%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/18	Human rights and Indigenous Peoples	3,353	62%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2012

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2012	A/HRC/21/24	Ways and means of promoting participation at the United Nations of indigenous peoples' representatives on issues affecting them report of the Secretary-General		A/HRC/RES/18/8

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Anniversaries Conferences Declarations Discrimination Financial Services Financing Gender-Based Violence Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the rights of indigenous peoples,⁴ and requests the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Human Rights Council an annual report on the rights of indigenous peoples containing information on relevant developments in human rights bodies and mechanisms and the activities undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner at Headquarters and in the field that contribute to the promotion of, respect for and the full application of the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and follow-up on the effectiveness of the Declaration;

⁴A/HRC/33/27.

Also welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, including the official visits made and her reports, and encourages all Governments to respond favourably to her requests for visits;

Further welcomes the work of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, takes note with appreciation of the report on its ninth session,⁵ and encourages States to continue to participate in and contribute to its discussions, including by their national specialized bodies and institutions;

⁵A/HRC/33/56.

Requests the Expert Mechanism to prepare a study, to be finalized by its tenth session, on good practices and challenges, including discrimination, in business and in access to financial services by indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women and indigenous persons with disabilities, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-sixth session;

Decides to hold, at its thirty-sixth session, its half-day panel discussion on the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with a special focus on challenges and good practices in achieving the ends of the Declaration, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to make the discussions fully accessible to persons with disabilities and to prepare a summary report on the discussion and to submit it to the Human Rights Council prior to its thirty-eighth session;

Reaffirms its decision to continue its consideration of the issue of the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, including violence against indigenous women and girls, as a matter of high priority, in conformity with its annual programme of work;

Welcomes the ongoing cooperation and coordination among the Special Rapporteur, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert Mechanism, and their ongoing efforts to promote the rights of indigenous peoples, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the follow-up to the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, and invites them to continue to work in close cooperation with all Human Rights Council mechanisms within their respective mandates;

Reaffirms that the United Nations treaty bodies are important mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights, and encourages States to give serious consideration to their recommendations regarding indigenous peoples;

Welcomes the contribution of the universal periodic review to the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples, encourages effective follow-up to accepted review recommendations concerning indigenous peoples, and invites States to include, as appropriate, information on the situation of the rights of indigenous peoples, including measures taken to pursue the objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during the review;

Encourages States that have endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to adopt measures to pursue its objectives in consultations and cooperation with indigenous peoples;

Calls upon States that that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;

Encourages States to give due consideration to all the rights of indigenous peoples in fulfilling the commitments undertaken in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development⁶ and in the elaboration of relevant national programmes, strategies and plans;

⁶See General Assembly resolution 70/1.

Welcomes the role of national human rights institutions established in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) in advancing indigenous issues, and recognizes the importance for such institutions of developing and strengthening their capacities, as appropriate, to fulfil that role effectively;

Takes note of the activity of the United Nations Indigenous Peoples Partnership and the system-wide action plan for ensuring a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and invites States and other potential donors to support it;

Urges States and invites other public and/or private actors or institutions to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples as an important means of promoting the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide and within the United Nations system;

Decides to continue its consideration of this question at a future session in conformity with its annual programme of work.

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