A/HRC/45/22 peoples in government decision-making through their own representative institutions, ensuring that their views and specific rights are respected when adopting and implementing policy, legislative, administrative, budgetary or regulatory measures, including in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, in many countries, OHCHR supports the effective participation of indigenous peoples in decision-making processes that directly or indirectly concern their collective rights, their way of life, their right to self-determination, their traditional lands and territories and their cultural integrity. OHCHR also continues to provide training and capacity-building to indigenous peoples, targeting young people and women in particular, including through its Indigenous Fellowship Programme. 99. Sustained, transparent and participatory measures are required by all stakeholders, and States in particular, to effectively ensure the full and equal enjoyment of human rights for all indigenous peoples. This is particularly important in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. To that end, programmes, policies and legislation, must be aligned with the requirements of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provisions of international human rights treaties. Furthermore, responses to the COVID-19 global crisis cannot be dissociated from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the commitments made in that context by States to reduce inequalities and to leave no one behind, which includes during and in the recovery phases of pandemics. 16

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