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actively involved in developing and determining health, housing and other economic and social
programmes affecting them and, as far as possible, to administer such programmes through their
own institutions.
Article 24
1.
Indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain
their health practices, including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants, animals and
minerals. Indigenous individuals also have the right to access, without any discrimination, to all
social and health services.
2.
Indigenous individuals have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health. States shall take the necessary steps with a
view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right.
Article 25
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual
relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories,
waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future
generations in this regard.
Article 26
1.
Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which
they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
2.
Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands,
territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional
occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.
3.
States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and
resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and
land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.
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