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Under a revised draft resolution, whose main sponsor was Peru, with a number of European and Latin American countries listed as co-sponsors, the full text would have been adopted by the Assembly in relatively short order.īut an initiative led by Namibia, co-sponsored by a number of African countries, resulted in the draft being amended. On 28 December 2006, the Third Committee of the General Assembly (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) adopted a draft resolution to defer consideration and action on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly, with the aim of concluding consideration of the Declaration before the end of its current sixty-first session. On 29 June 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In 2006, revisions to the human rights machinery within the United Nations resulted in the replacement of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights into the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (2005-2015). Since this did not take place, the mandate of the working group was extended by the U.N. The open-ended working group hoped that the instrument would be adopted by the General Assembly within the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995-2004). The need to accommodate these issues led to the creation, in 1995, of the open-ended inter-sessional working group to consider and elaborate on the 1994 draft declaration. The process moved very slowly because of concerns expressed by States with regard to some of the core provisions of the draft declaration, namely the right to self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and the control over natural resources existing on Indigenous Peoples’ traditional lands. Commission on Human Rights for further discussion and if it was deemed to be appropriate, to approve the proposed declaration before its submission to ECOSOC and the U.N. The Draft was sent for consideration to the then U.N. The Working Group submitted a first draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples to the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, which was later approved in 1994. The study outlined the oppression, marginalization and exploitation suffered by Indigenous Peoples. Martinez Cobo on the problem of discrimination faced by Indigenous Peoples throughout the world. The Working Group was established as result of a study by José R. In 1982, the Working Group on Indigenous Populations was established and was one of the six working groups overseen by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the main subsidiary body of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (defunct 2006). The efforts to draft a specific instrument dealing with the protection of Indigenous Peoples worldwide date back over several decades. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/RES/61/295)Įnglish | Español | Français | Русский | عربي | 汉语 (PDF version)Įnglish | Español | Français | Русский | عربي | 汉语 (Official Resolution Text)Īdolescent-Friendly Version of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the Indigenous Peoples of the world and it elaborates on existing human rights standards and fundamental freedoms as they apply to the specific situation of Indigenous Peoples. Today the Declaration is the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Years later the four countries that voted against have reversed their position and now support the UN Declaration. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday, 13 September 2007, by a majority of 144 states in favour, 4 votes against (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) and 11 abstentions (Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Samoa and Ukraine).
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