Preparing for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

150 indigenous nations and organizations joined together to advance four concrete recommendations to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. Over the course of two years, these indigenous nations won the support of an overwhelming number of countries and all four recommendations were included in some form in the World Conference Outcome Document.

Indigenous leaders realized early on the need to develop and propose a small number of reasonable and concrete recommendations, but effective recommendations that would have positive and lasting effects for indigenous peoples everywhere. Such recommendations included:

1. An implementing and monitoring body for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
2. A new status for indigenous governments in the UN.
3. Actions to combat violence against indigenous women.
4. Actions to protect indigenous peoples’ sacred places.

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Recommendations - English
Recomendaciones - Español 

At the 24th Session of the Human Rights Council Session (Sept. 2013), Geneva

At the 13th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (May 2014), New York, NY

At the 12th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (May 2013), New York, NY