A/RES/74/135
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 67 (a)
Rights of indigenous peoples: rights of indigenous peoples
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/396)]
74/135.
Rights of indigenous peoples
The General Assembly,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Human Rights
Council and the Economic and Social Council relating to the rights of indigenous
peoples, reaffirming its resolutions 65/198 of 21 December 2010, 66/142 of
19 December 2011, 67/153 of 20 December 2012, 68/149 of 18 December 2013, 69/2
of 22 September 2014, 69/159 of 18 December 2014, 70/232 of 23 December 2015,
71/178 of 19 December 2016, 71/321 of 8 September 2017, 72/155 of 19 December
2017, 72/247 of 24 December 2017 and 73/156 of 17 December 2018, and recalling
Human Rights Council resolutions 27/13 of 25 September 2014, 1 30/4 of 1 October
2015, 2 33/12 and 33/13 of 29 September 2016, 3 36/14 of 28 September 2017, 4 39/13
of 28 September 2018 5 and 42/19 of 26 September 2019, 6
Reaffirming the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, 7 which addresses the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples
and has positively influenced the drafting of several constitutions and statutes at the
national and local levels and contributed to the progressive development of
international and national legal frameworks and policies,
Recalling the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, he ld in
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and
A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/73/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/74/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Resolution 61/295, annex.
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