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The Permanent Forum is convinced that a declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples will be an instrument of great value through which to advance the rights and aspirations of the world’s indigenous peoples. The Permanent Forum therefore recommends the adoption without amendments of the draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples as contained in the proposals of the Chairperson of the working group of the Commission on Human Rights on the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (see E/CN.4/2006/79, annex I) by the General Assembly during its sixty-first session in 2006. This would represent a major achievement for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.
Responses
OHCHR reports: “At its first session, the Human Rights Council adopted, by a large majority, resolution 12, by which it adopted the draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples and recommended its adoption to the General Assembly. The Council adopted the draft in accordance with the recommendation contained in paragraph 68 of the report on the fifth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which stipulates that the draft declaration should be adopted without amendments. However, the final version of the draft declaration must still be adopted by the General Assembly.”
Final Report of UNPFII Session 5 (2006)
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