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General Assembly Resolutions

A/RES/70/232  Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2015
A/RES/69/159 Rights of Indigenous Peoples (18 December 2014)
A/RES/68/149 Rights of Indigenous Peoples (18 December 2013)

RA/ES/67/153 Rights of indigenous peoples (20 December 2012)
Press release: GA/SHC/4063A/RES/66/296 Organization of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, to be known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (17 September 2012)
Press release: 
GA/11283.
Adopted without vote.
A/RES/66/142 Rights of indigenous peoples (19 December 2011) 
Press release: 
GA/11198
Adopted without vote.
A/RES/65/198 Indigenous Issues  (21 December 2010)
Press release: 
GA/11041
Adopted without vote.A/RES/63/161 Indigenous Issues (18 December 2008)
Press release: GA/10801
Adopted without voteA/RES/61/295 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (13 September 2007) 
Press release: GA/10612
Yes: 143, No: 4, Abstentions: 11, Non-Voting: 34, Total voting membership: 192 A/RES/60/142 Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (16 December 2005)
Press release: GA/10437
Adopted without voteA/RES/59/174 Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (20 December 2004)
Press release: GA/10321
Adopted without voteA/RES/58/158 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (22 December 2003)
Press release: GA/10223
Adopted without voteA/RES/57/193 Indigenous people and issues (18 December 2002)
A/RES/57/192 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
A/RES/57/191 Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Press release: GA/10124 +Corr.1
All three adopted without vote
A/RES/56/140 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
Press release: GA/10001
Adopted without vote.A/RES/55/80 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
Press release: GA/9842
Adopted without vote.A/RES/54/150 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
Press release: GA/9690
Adopted without vote.A/RES/53/130 UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations
A/RES/53/129 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
Press release: 
GA/9532
Adopted without vote.A/RES/52/108 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
Press release: 
GA/9380
Adopted without a vote.A/RES/51/78 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
Adopted without a vote.
A/RES/50/157 Programme of activities for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
A/RES/50/156 United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations
Adopted without a vote.
A/RES/49/214 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
Adopted without a vote.
A/RES/48/163 International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
Adopted without a vote.
A/RES/47/75 International Year for the World’s Indigenous People, 1993
Adopted without a vote.
A/RES/46/128 International Year for the World’s Indigenous People

ECOSOC Resolutions

E/2000/22 Establishment of a Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (p. 50-52)