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● Item 64: Indigenous issues:
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(a) Indigenous issues
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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-ninth 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, 58/158 and 59/174).
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).
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly decided to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session, under the item entitled “Indigenous issues”, a sub-item entitled “Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People” (resolution 60/142).(b) Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
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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; and requested the Secretary-General to appoint the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs as the Coordinator for the Second Decade (resolution 59/174).
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly adopted the Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People as a guideline for action for the Second Decade; also adopted “Partnership for action and dignity” as the theme for the Second Decade; requested the Coordinator of the Second Decade to consult with Member States, agencies, organizations and other relevant bodies and mechanisms of the United Nations system, indigenous organizations and other non-governmental organizations about the possibility of undertaking midterm and end-of-term reviews of the Second Decade; urged all Governments and indigenous organizations concerned to take every action necessary to facilitate the adoption of the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples as soon as possible; invited Governments, the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, other intergovernmental organizations, indigenous and other non-governmental organizations and civil society actors to draw up their own plans for the Second Decade; and decided to include the sub-item in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session, under the item entitled “Indigenous issues” (resolution 60/142).
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