Programme of Action for the 2nd International Decade of the World's Indigenous People

A/RES/60/142View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 68 Indigenous issues, published in 2005.

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Conferences Coordination Within UN System Declarations Financial Assistance Indigenous Organizations Indigenous Peoples International Cooperation International Decades Programmes of Action Technical Cooperation Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Adopts the Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People3 as a guideline for action for the Second Decade;

Urges all actors involved in the process to cooperate in a constructive and decisive manner in order to achieve rapid progress and concrete results in realizing the goals of the Second Decade;

Appeals to the international community at large to provide financial support to the Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, inter alia, through contributions to the Voluntary Fund for the Second Decade;

Adopts “Partnership for action and dignity” as the theme for the Second Decade;

Requests the Coordinator of the Second Decade to consult with Member States, agencies, organizations and other relevant bodies and mechanisms of the United Nations system, indigenous organizations and other non-governmental organizations about the possibility of undertaking midterm and end-of-term reviews of the Second Decade;

Reaffirms that, in accordance with its resolutions 40/131 of 13 December 1985, 52/108 of 12 December 1997 and 56/140 of 19 December 2001, the representatives of indigenous communities and organizations will continue to benefit from the financial assistance provided by the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations to facilitate their participation in the deliberations of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the working group of the Commission on Human Rights charged with elaborating the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples and the Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, according to the terms of reference of the Fund;

Urges all Governments and indigenous organizations concerned to take every action necessary to facilitate the adoption of the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples as soon as possible;

Invites Governments, the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, other intergovernmental organizations, indigenous and other non-governmental organizations and civil society actors to draw up their own plans for the Second Decade, using as a guideline for action the goals, objectives and Programme of Action for the Second Decade, including integrating a gender perspective in such activities;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session, under the item entitled “Indigenous issues”, a sub-item entitled “Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People”.

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