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second official celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People in
Cameroon on 9 August 2009.
38.
The OHCHR Regional Office for Central America in Panama prepared training tools
on the rights of indigenous peoples, including a comparison between the ILO Convention
No. 169 and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Human Rights
Adviser in Ecuador supported the production of a number of publications to promote the
rights of indigenous peoples, while OHCHR-Columbia published a guide on the right to
free, prior and informed consent.
39.
A number of field presences published the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples in indigenous languages. OHCHR-Mexico translated the Declaration into nine
indigenous languages in collaboration with UNDP and the National Commission for
Development in Mexico. OHCHR-Cambodia supported the translation and publication of
the Declaration into Khmer and OHCHR-Nepal translated the Declaration into nine
languages. In 2009, the Office also widely disseminated its pocket-sized Nepali version of
the Declaration. The Office of the Human Rights Adviser in the Russian Federation
translated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into some ten languages of
indigenous peoples of the Federation.
B.
Inter-agency programmes and activities
40.
At the global level, OHCHR continued to participate in the Inter-Agency Support
Group on Indigenous Issues. It participated in its annual meeting in September 2009 and
made a substantial contribution to an inter-agency meeting called by the Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity and the Working Group on Indicators of the
International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity, to discuss indicators of indigenous
peoples’ well-being and sustainable development, focusing on traditional knowledge. It was
felt during the meeting that the existing work by OHCHR was of particular relevance to the
work on indicators for indigenous peoples and that the structural process outcome approach
developed by OHCHR could be used to identify indicators to help measure the
implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples.
41.
In May 2010, OHCHR established, with ILO and UNDP, the United Nations
Indigenous Peoples Partnership (UNIPP) as a framework for the promotion and protection
of the rights of indigenous peoples at the country level. A multi-donor trust fund will
support global, regional and local initiatives and programmes devoted, inter alia, to
promoting consultative and participatory mechanisms. OHCHR also continued its work
with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) under the United
Nations Housing Rights Programme and contributed to a joint publication on urban
indigenous peoples and migration.
42.
At the country level, the OHCHR Regional Office in Central America in Panama led
the work of an inter-agency working group on indigenous issues, composed of nine United
Nations agencies. The working group undertook a series of activities, including two
regional seminars on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples gathering human
rights bodies and mechanisms, national human rights institutions and indigenous
organizations from Central America and the Caribbean, a meeting of focal points on
indigenous issues from 12 national human rights institutions of Latin America to discuss
best practices and challenges in monitoring and implementing the Declaration, and the
establishment of a regional consultative working group on indigenous peoples as a
mechanism of consultation between indigenous peoples and United Nations agencies.
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