A/HRC/10/51 page 3 I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Human Rights Council, in its decision 2/102, requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue with the fulfilment of her activities, in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies. On the issue of the rights of indigenous peoples, an interim report (A/HRC/9/11) was submitted, in which the main activities undertaken by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples were outlined. 2. The present document is a final report supplementing the interim report, and contains a review of relevant developments in the rights of indigenous peoples, including specific references to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, arising out of the work of the treaty bodies, special procedures and OHCHR field presences from 2007 to 2008. The report is intended to contribute to the implementation of article 42 of the Declaration, which called on the United Nations, its bodies, including the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and specialized agencies, including at the country level, and States to promote respect for and full application of the provisions of the Declaration and to follow up on its effectiveness. 3. In the second section of the report, a review of the work of treaty bodies and special procedures is presented through the most regularly observed issues, including good practices and challenges, relating to the rights of indigenous peoples.1 The third section presents relevant activities conducted by the Council, in particular the reports of the High Commissioner on safe drinking water and climate change. In the fourth section, the report presents some good practices by OHCHR field presences to advance the rights of indigenous peoples at the national and regional levels. 4. In the recommendations, the High Commissioner invites the Council to consider the nature of the OHCHR annual report on the rights of indigenous peoples and to consider grouping all reports on the rights of indigenous peoples to be submitted to the Council at one session of the year. II. REVIEW OF RELEVANT DEVELOPMENTS ARISING OUT OF THE WORK OF THE TREATY BODIES AND SPECIAL PROCEDURES A. Treaty bodies 5. The issues most affecting indigenous peoples regularly addressed by treaty bodies in their review of State reports include land, poverty, education and health, participation and consultation, the question of access to justice, census data and self-identification as well as civil status registration. 1 The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will submit their own reports to the Human Rights Council.