Addressee: OHCHR

Paragraph #95Session #10 (2011)

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The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues welcomes the proposal made by the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the report on its third session, which encourages OHCHR to hold an international expert seminar on truth and reconciliation processes. This proposal of the Expert Mechanism recognizes the importance of national truth and reconciliation processes for improving relations between States and indigenous peoples and for facilitating strengthened recognition and implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples.

Responses

EMRIP - at its fifth session, EMRIP proposed that an international expert seminar on truth and reconciliation processes be held in 2013 in partnership with other interested partners. Source: A/HRC/21/52

Final Report of UNPFII Session 10 (2011)

Area of Work

Human rights