A/HRC/15/60 Against: United States of America Abstaining: Belgium, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chile, France, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Zambia] 15/7 Human rights and indigenous peoples The Human Rights Council, Bearing in mind that the General Assembly, in its resolution 59/174 of 20 December 2004, proclaimed the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2001/57 of 24 April 2001, 2002/65 of 25 April 2002, 2003/56 of 24 April 2003, 2004/62 of 21 April 2004 and 2005/51 of 20 April 2005 on human rights and indigenous issues, Recalling also Council resolutions 6/12 of 28 September 2007, 6/36 of 14 December 2007, 9/7 of 24 September 2008 and 12/13 of 1 October 2009, Recalling further the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/295 of 13 September 2007, Recognizing the importance to indigenous peoples of revitalizing, using, developing and transmitting to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and designating and retaining their own names for communities, places and persons, 1. Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on indigenous issues,15 and requests the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Council an annual report on the rights of indigenous peoples containing information on relevant developments in human rights bodies and mechanisms and activities undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner at Headquarters and in the field that contribute to the promotion of, respect for and the full application of the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and follow-up on the effectiveness of the Declaration; 2. Also welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people and the official visits he has made during the last year, takes note with appreciation of his report,16 and encourages all Governments to respond favourably to his requests for visits; 3. Requests the Special Rapporteur to report on the implementation of his mandate to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session; 4. Welcomes the work of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and takes note with appreciation of the report on its third session;17 15 16 17 18 A/HRC/15/34. A/HRC/15/37. A/HRC/15/36. GE.11-17043