UN: Call for contributions to report on indigenous peoples' participation at the UN

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Summary: In view of a report for the 21st session of the Human Rights Council (September 2012) being prepared by the Secretary General on indigenous peoples' participation at the United Nations, you are invited to provide submissions.

Input is welcome on:

  • Which existing procedures to accredit non-governmental organisations might be appropriately applied to the accreditation of indigenous peoples' representatives to meetings of United Nations organs;
  • Current practices to accredit indigenous peoples' organisations to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and how such practices could be applied to other United Nations meetings;
  • Whether it is desirable for the General Assembly to adopt a decision setting out general procedures that would apply to indigenous peoples' representatives' participation at United Nations meetings, or whether separate decisions should be adopted by the Economic and Social Council and the Human Rights Council on their participation; and
  • What would be the appropriate next steps in terms of considering this issue further within the United Nations.

- DEADLINE: Please send by 9 April 2012 to: ccharters@ohchr.org


Background

Human Rights Council resolution 18/8 (2011) requested the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, the Office of Legal Affairs and other relevant parts of the Secretariat, to prepare a detailed document on the ways and means of promoting participation at the United Nations of recognized indigenous peoples' representatives on issues affecting them, given that they are not always organized as non-governmental organizations, and on how such participation might be structured, drawing from, inter alia, the rules governing the participation in various United Nations bodies by non-governmental organizations (including Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31) and by national human rights institutions (including Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/74 of 20 April 2005), and to present it to the Council at its twenty-first session.

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Issues: 
Minority or indigenous children
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