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Indigenous
issues
Date of
consideration: 19-20
October 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/500
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Documents:
A/60/270 [F]
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A/60/270/Add.1 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on the Second International Decade of the
World's Indigenous People
Summary:
At its
forty-eighth session, in 1993, following a recommendation by
the World Conference on Human Rights, the General Assembly
proclaimed the International Decade of the World's Indigenous
People (1994-2004) (resolution
48/163).
The General
Assembly considered this question under the item entitled
"Programme of activities of the International Decade of the
World's Indigenous People" at its forty-ninth to fifty-eighth
sessions (resolutions 49/214, 50/156, 50/157, 51/78, 52/108,
53/129, 54/150, 55/80, 56/140, 57/191 to 57/193 and 58/158).
At its
fifty-seventh session, the General Assembly requested the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit,
through the Secretary-General, an annual report to it on the
implementation of the programme of activities for the Decade
(resolution
57/192).
Second
International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly proclaimed the
Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People,
commencing on 1 January 2005; decided that the goal of the
Second Decade should be the further strengthening of
international cooperation for the solution of problems faced
by indigenous people in such areas as culture, education,
health, human rights, the environment and social and economic
development; requested the Secretary-General to appoint the
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs as the
Coordinator for the Second Decade; also requested the
Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its
sixtieth session on a comprehensive programme of action for
the Second Decade based on the achievements of the first
Decade; and decided to include in the provisional agenda of
its sixtieth session an item entitled "Indigenous issues"
(resolution
59/174).
United
Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations
The Voluntary
Fund for Indigenous Populations was established pursuant to
General Assembly resolutions 40/131 of 13 December 1985,
50/156 of 21 December 1995, 53/130 of 9 December 1998 and
56/140 of 19 December 2001. At its fifty-ninth session, the
Assembly took note of the note by the Secretary-General
transmitting the biennial report of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights on the status of the Fund
(decision 59/526).
Voluntary
Fund for the Second International Decade of the World's
Indigenous People
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to establish a voluntary fund for the Second
Decade, which to all juridical purposes and effects should be
set up and should discharge its functions as a successor to
the already existing voluntary fund established for the first
Decade pursuant to Assembly resolutions 48/163, 49/214 and
50/157 (resolution
59/174).
Report of
the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and
fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
At its
sixty-first session, the Commission on Human Rights welcomed
the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
(E/CN.4/2005/88 and Add.1-4) and requested him to submit a
report on his activities to the General Assembly at its
sixtieth session (Commission resolution 2005/51).
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