At its 48th plenary meeting, on 28 July 2011, the Economic and Social Council decided to authorize a three-day international expert group meeting on the theme “Combating violence against indigenous women and girls: article 22 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” and requested that the results of the meeting be reported to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at its eleventh session, to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session and to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-sixth session, in 2012.
