The right of peoples to self-determination and its application to peoples under colonial or alien domination or foreign occupation : racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination : indigenous issues : joint written statement / submitted by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)

Urges the Commission on Human Rights to extend the mandate of the Working Group elaborating a Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; to introduce criteria within the Working Group to ensure strict adherence to principles of the UN Charter when any participant proposes new or modified human rights norms; and to ensure that proposals are consistent with international law and compatible with indigenous peoples' basic aspirations, status and rights.

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