A/HRC/RES/42/19 for and the full application of the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and follow up on the effectiveness of the Declaration; 2. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, including the official visits made and her reports,7 and encourages all Governments to respond favourably to the requests of the mandate holder for visits; 3. Also welcomes the work of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including its annual report8 and its intersessional activities, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to ensure timely translation in all official languages of the United Nations and distribution of these reports for the Council and presession translation of the studies and reports of the Expert Mechanism, in accordance with Council resolution 33/25 of 30 September 2016; 4. Strongly encourages States to participate actively in the sessions of the Expert Mechanism and to engage in dialogue with it, including during its intersessional activities; 5. Urges States and other potential donors to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples, and encourages the expansion of its mandate in order to support the participation of indigenous peoples, including indigenous women, youth and persons with disabilities, in United Nations business and human rights and climate change processes; 6. Acknowledges the efforts of States, indigenous peoples and United Nations agencies to engage with the Expert Mechanism under its current mandate to facilitate dialogue, when agreeable to all parties, to provide technical assistance and coordination in order to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and encourages all parties to consider the Expert Mechanism’s initiation of country engagements upon the request of States and indigenous peoples; 7. Notes that the next study of the Expert Mechanism, to be finalized by its thirteenth session, will focus on the theme of the rights of indigenous peoples to lands, territories and resources, and acknowledges the efforts made to improve complementarity and to avoid duplication among the reports prepared by the Expert Mechanism, the Special Rapporteur and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; 8. Acknowledges the progress and outcomes of and lessons learned from the International Year of Indigenous Languages in 2019 through the activities led by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and in that regard supports the proclamation of an international decade of indigenous languages; 9. Recalls that the Human Rights Council decided in its resolution 39/13 that the theme of the annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples, to be held during the forty-fifth session of the Council, would be the protection of indigenous human rights defenders, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to encourage and facilitate the participation of indigenous women and to make the discussion fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and to prepare a summary report on the discussion and to submit it to the Council prior to its forty-seventh session; 10. Welcomes the half-day intersessional interactive dialogue, held on 15 July 2019, on ways to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of the Human Rights Council on issues affecting them, and looks forward to the summary report to be prepared thereon by the Office of the High Commissioner for submission to the Council prior its forty-fourth session; 11. Decides to continue to discuss further steps to facilitate the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in the work of the Human Rights Council, in particular during the dialogue with the Expert Mechanism and the Special Rapporteur and in the annual half-day discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples; 7 8 A/HRC/42/37 and Add.1–2. A/HRC/42/55. 3