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Study on the right to participate in decision making

Through resolution 12/13 (2009), the Human Rights Council requested the Expert Mechanism to carry out a study on indigenous peoples and the right to participate in decision-making, to present a progress report to the Council at its fifteenth session (2010), and the final study to the eighteenth session (2011).

Access the progress report and final report in all six official UN languages:

Progress Report on the study on Indigenous peoples and the right to participate in decision making
Expert Mechanism final report on its study on indigenous peoples and the right to participate in decision making

The Expert Mechanism also undertook a follow-up report on indigenous peoples and the right to participate in decision-making, with a focus on extractive industries

Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Experts

Expert Mechanism Documentation

Expert Mechanism Statements

Mandate Review

Requests under new mandate

Academic Friends of the Expert Mechanism

Ongoing work

Report on Repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains: a call for submissions

Study on the Right to Land under the UNDRIP: A Human Rights Focus: A call for submissions

Thematic studies

Report on Recognition, reparations and reconciliation

Study on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Context of Borders, Migration and Displacement

Study on free, prior and informed consent

Good practices and challenges in business and in access to financial services by indigenous peoples

Right to health

Cultural heritage

Disaster risk reduction

Access to justice (follow-up study)

Access to justice

Languages and cultures

Right to participate in decision making

Right to education

Sessions of the Expert Mechanism

Thirteenth session (2020)

Twelfth session (2019)

Eleventh session (2018)

Tenth session (2017)

Ninth session (2016)

Eighth session (2015)

Useful links

Indigenous peoples homepage

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples

The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations

Nomination, selection and appointment of Human Rights Council Mandate Holders

Indigenous Peoples’ Centre for documentation, research and information*

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