International Decade of the World's Indigenous People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

International Decade of the World's Indigenous People

Emphasizes the importance of strengthening the human and institutional capacity of indigenous people to develop their own solutions to their problems, recommends for these purposes that the UN University, as a follow-up to the planned workshop for research and higher education institutions consider the possibility of sponsoring, in each region, one or more existing institutions of higher education as centres of excellence and the diffusion of expertise, inter alia, by conducting relevant studies, and invites the Commission to recommend appropriate means of implementation; requests the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as coordinator for the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People: (a) to continue to promote the objectives of the Decade; (b) to proceed with the organization of the workshop for research and higher education institutions focusing on indigenous issues in education; (c) to give due regard to the dissemination; (d) to submit, through the Secretary-General, an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the programme of activities of the Decade; underlines the importance of effective participation by indigenous representatives in the open-ended inter-sessional working group of the Commission on Human Rights charged with elaborating a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous people.

Adopted without vote, 85th meeting

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Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 9 Dec. 1998.