International Decade of the World's Indigenous People

A/RES/58/158View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 114 Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, published in 2004.

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10 versions · 1994–2004

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/58/158	International Decade of the World's Indigenous People	1,188	73%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/192	International Decade of the World's Indigenous People	1,098	79%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/140	International Decade of the World's Indigenous People	1,186	76%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/80	International Decade of the World's Indigenous People	1,127	63%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/150	International Decade of the World's Indigenous People	1,422	67%Compare

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17 subjects

Capacity Building Consultations Cultural Pluralism Declarations Development Financial Institutions Focal Points Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Information Dissemination Information Exchange International Decades International Organizations Programme Implementation Project Implementation Report Preparation Resources Mobilization

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27 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of the programme of activities for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People;⁴

⁴A/58/289.

Affirms its conviction of the value and diversity of the cultures and forms of social organization of indigenous people and its conviction that the development of indigenous people within their countries will contribute to the socio-economic, cultural and environmental advancement of all the countries of the world;

Emphasizes the importance of strengthening the human and institutional capacity of indigenous people to develop their own solutions to their problems;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as coordinator for the Decade:

To continue to promote the objectives of the Decade, taking into account, in the fulfilment of his or her functions, the special concerns of indigenous people;

To give due regard to the dissemination, from within existing resources and voluntary contributions, of information on the situation, cultures, languages, rights and aspirations of indigenous people and, in that context, to consider the possibility of organizing projects, special events, exhibitions and other activities addressed to the public, in particular to young people;

To submit, through the Secretary-General, an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the programme of activities for the Decade;

Reaffirms the adoption of a declaration on the rights of indigenous people as a major objective of the Decade, and underlines the importance of effective participation by indigenous representatives in the open-ended intersessional working group of the Commission on Human Rights charged with elaborating a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous people, established pursuant to Commission resolution 1995/32 of 3 March 1995;⁵

⁵See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/1995/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A.

Welcomes the active consideration by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues of a number of topics pertaining to the Decade, as reflected in its report to the Economic and Social Council on its second session,⁶ and encourages the Forum to continue to work towards the realization of the goals of the Decade;

⁶Ibid., 2003, Supplement No. 23 (E/2003/43).

Encourages Governments to support the Decade by:

Preparing relevant programmes, plans and reports in relation to the Decade, in consultation with indigenous people;

Seeking means, in consultation with indigenous people, of giving indigenous people greater responsibility for their own affairs and an effective voice in decisions on matters that affect them;

Establishing national committees or other mechanisms involving indigenous people to ensure that the objectives and activities of the Decade are planned and implemented on the basis of full partnership with indigenous people;

Contributing to the following funds:

The United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People;

The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, in order to assist indigenous representatives in participating in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the open-ended intersessional working group of the Commission on Human Rights charged with elaborating a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous people;

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The Trust Fund in Support of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues;

The Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean;

Identifying resources for activities designed to implement the goals of the Decade, in cooperation with indigenous people and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;

Invites United Nations financial and development institutions, operational programmes and the specialized agencies and secretariats, as well as other regional and international organizations, in accordance with the existing procedures of their governing bodies:

To give increased priority and resources to improving the conditions of indigenous people, with particular emphasis on the needs of those people in developing countries, inter alia, through the preparation of specific programmes of action for the implementation of the goals of the Decade, within their areas of competence;

To launch special projects, through appropriate channels and in cooperation with indigenous people, to strengthen their community-level initiatives and to facilitate the exchange of information and expertise among indigenous people and other relevant experts;

To designate focal points for the coordination of activities relating to the Decade with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;

and commends those institutions, programmes, agencies and regional and international organizations that have already done so;

Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure coordinated follow-up to the recommendations concerning indigenous people of relevant United Nations conferences;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit, through the Secretary-General, a report on the implementation of the programme of activities for the Decade to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session;

Takes note of Economic and Social Council decision 2003/306 of 25 July 2003 concerning the initiation of its review of the Decade, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 50/157;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session an item entitled “Programme of activities for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, 1995–2004”.

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