A/RES/73/156
Rights of indigenous peoples
plenary meeting, including the comprehensive engagement of the representatives of
indigenous peoples, and welcoming and reaffirming the commitments, measures and
efforts undertaken by States, the United Nations system, indigenous peoples and other
actors in its implementation,
Encouraging the active engagement of indigenous peoples in the
implementation of the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, including
at the regional and global levels,
Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 8 and stressing the
need to ensure that no one is left behind and to reach the furthest behind first,
including indigenous peoples, who should participate in, contribute to and benefit
without discrimination from the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and encouraging
Member States to give due consideration to all the rights of indigenous peoples while
implementing the 2030 Agenda,
Stressing the importance of promoting and pursuing the objectives of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples also through international
cooperation to support national and regional efforts to achieve the ends of the
Declaration, including the right to maintain and strengthen the distinct political, legal,
economic, social and cultural institutions of indigenous peoples and the right to
participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life
of the State,
Bearing in mind the policy instruments in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly
and Regular Migration for Member States to draw on, including to respond to the
needs of migrants who face situations of vulnerability, including indigenous peoples,
Taking note with appreciation of the agreed conclusions of the sixty-second
session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 9 in which Governments at all
levels and as appropriate, with the relevant entities of the United Nations system and
international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates and bearing
in mind national priorities, were urged to promote and protect the rights of indigenous
women and girls living in rural and remote areas by addressing the multiple and
intersecting forms of discrimination and barriers they face, including violence,
ensuring access to quality and inclusive education, health care, public services,
economic resources, including land and natural resources, and women ’s access to
decent work, and promoting their meaningful participation in the economy and in
decision-making processes at all levels and in all areas, while respecting and protecting
their traditional and ancestral knowledge, and noting the importance for indigenous
women and girls of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
Recognizing that violence against indigenous women and girls has a negative
impact on their enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitutes
a major impediment to women’s full, equal and effective participation in society, the
economy and political decision-making, and in this regard recalling Human Rights
Council resolution 32/19 of 1 July 2016, entitled “Accelerating efforts to eliminate
violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and
girls, including indigenous women and girls”, 10 which brings closer attention to this
issue, and recognizing also the negative effects of multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination,
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2018, Supplement No. 7 (E/2018/27),
chap. I, sect. A.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A.
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