A/HRC/33/27 62. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights highlighted the disproportionate rates of discrimination, unemployment, poverty and inequality faced by indigenous peoples in its concluding observations on the reports of Burundi, Canada, Chile, Guyana, Kenya, Namibia, Thailand, Uganda and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (fiftyfifth to fifty-seventh sessions). The Committee recommended that a number of States parties consider ratifying the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), and that they commit to the full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Committee also made recommendations on language, education and the preservation of culture; access to health care, education, safe drinking water and sanitation and legal aid; and the disproportionate effect that climate change has on indigenous peoples. In other concluding observations, the Committee focused on free, prior and informed consent; land tenure and resource ownership; and the impact of resource exploitation on indigenous peoples. Furthermore, the Committee raised concerns related to the involvement of indigenous peoples in forced labour, the corruption of village captains in indigenous communities, gender-based violence and the allocation of funds to programmes that support indigenous peoples. The Committee implemented the simplified reporting procedure at its fifty-seventh session, and requested information from New Zealand on the Maori and Pasifika people. In addition, the Committee adopted its general comments No. 22 (2016) on the right to sexual and reproductive health and No. 23 (2016) on the right to just and favourable conditions of work. In both general comments, the Committee made reference to indigenous peoples, identifying them as a category of persons to which the right of non-discrimination within each context was particularly relevant. 63. The Committee on the Rights of the Child considered the reports of Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Ethiopia, Honduras, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands and Peru (sixty-ninth to seventy-first sessions). The Committee highlighted the inadequate allocation of resources for indigenous children, the structural discrimination faced by indigenous children and the high rates of poverty among indigenous children. The Committee recommended that States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child address the adverse impacts of resource development projects on indigenous children’s health; increase indigenous children’s access to health care and sanitation, quality education and other basic social services; and protect indigenous children from harmful cultural practices. Other issues brought up by the Committee include the negative impact of forced evictions on indigenous children, the high rates of suicide among indigenous youth and the increased vulnerability that indigenous children face with respect to violence and human trafficking. The Committee urged States parties to take steps to ensure indigenous children enjoy their right to identity, and to collect disaggregated data. The Committee adopted general comment No. 20 (2016) on the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence, in which it noted that special measures are required to combat the widespread discrimination, poverty and denial of language and traditions that indigenous adolescents face and in order to ensure that the rights of indigenous adolescents are fully realized. 64. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities made recommendations on indigenous peoples with disabilities in its concluding observations on the reports of Brazil, Gabon and Kenya (fourteenth session) and of Chile, Thailand and Uganda (fifteenth session). The Committee highlighted the multiple forms of discrimination, extreme exclusion and extreme poverty faced by many indigenous peoples with disabilities. The Committee urged States parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to collect disaggregated data and allocate sufficient resources for indigenous peoples living with disabilities. Moreover, the Committee recommended that States parties make information available in formats that are accessible to persons living with disabilities, including in indigenous languages. 13

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